Originally Posted by
Trakhak
You can, of course, countersteer from the saddle (leaning the bike to the right, say, to begin a left turn), but then you'd be required to jerk the saddle over to heave the bars back in the direction in which they should have been pointed in the first place.
But while not obvious, that is the way leaning works to steer a bike.
If you're balanced and going straight on a bike, you can't simply lean your body to the left without having the bike simultaneously lean to the right.
Here's the sequence:
0. bike+rider balanced going straight
1. rider leans torso to left
2. bike leans to right
3. bike steers to right, contact patch moves right
4. bike leans to left
5. bike steers to left
6. bike+rider now balanced in left turn
To those who say "but I can lean one way without having the bike lean the other way". Freshman physics says "no, you can't".
Originally Posted by
Trakhak
I imagine that there will be no more posts on the subject.
That's hilarious!