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	Countersteering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Countersteering is the name given to the "counter-intuitive" technique used by cyclists and motorcyclists to turn corners.
		When riding a bicycle or a motorcycle, countersteering is a method of initiating a turn by a small, momentary turn of the front wheel, usually via the handlebars, in the opposite direction.
		At low speeds countersteering is equally necessary, but the countersteering is so subtle then that it drowns in the continuous corrections that are made in balancing the bike.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Countersteering (574 words)

	Countersteering: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		(countersteering is a method of preparing for a turn by a small, EHandler: no quick summary.
		(but the countersteering is so subtle then that it drowns in the continuous corrections that are made in balancing the bike.
		Most people are not consciously aware that they employ countersteering when riding their bicycle.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/countersteering.htm (643 words)

	Riding Skills
		Countersteering has been known about since the 20's, the physics first investigated in the 50's and properly described in the 60's and 70's.
		Countersteering, by contrast, generates a lot of mechanical advantage because the lever is the handlebars and it is hinged in the middle at the steering stem.
		Countersteering is a fundamental bike control technique, and from a purely practical point of view, about as straightforward a technique as anything else we do whilst sat on contradictory, non-intuitive motorcycles.
	home.clara.net /survivalskills/riding_skills_10.htm (5035 words)

	What is countersteering? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Note that this article is equally applicable to motorcycles or bicycles, although it's harder to be conscious of countersteering a bicycle due to its relatively light weight.
		Most experts explain countersteering as if it were the only thing in the world you needed to know about steering a bike.
		Countersteering is mostly useful for getting you leaned over, a great deal of the time.
	www.obairlann.net /~reaper/bmw-bike/beginner/countersteering.html (1843 words)

	Zen of Motorcycle Riding
		The purpose of teaching countersteering is not to prove anyone "wrong," but to give a rider the ammunition he requires to handle an emergency situation—and all normal situations—without crashing out-of-control.
		When countersteering, the general rule is to sit upright relative to the bike and to lean with the bike's lean angle.
		Countersteering ought to be taught by the government to all grade school children before they get injured attempting to ride their first bicycle (assuming the government cared about public safety).
	www.geocities.com /american_motorcycle_association/crashcures.html (16997 words)

	Countersteering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		When riding a bicycle or a motorcycle, countersteering is a method of preparing for a turn by a small, momentary turn of the handlebars in the opposite direction.
		When a bike at speed is pulling G's the artificial G's tend to straighten the front wheel, again assisting the steering of the bike.
		Their body has learned to include the well timed countersteering jolt, they have learned to do so while learning to ride a bicycle in childhood.
	www.cupertino.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Countersteering (565 words)

	Motorcycle Counter Steering Riding Skills Series - Sport Rider
		Whether you realize it or not, countersteering is as necessary and vital to your riding as using the brakes.
		If you're not familiar with countersteering, it's a term used to describe the physical action of steering the bar or clip-ons momentarily in the opposite (yes, opposite) direction of the turn in order to initiate a corner.
		The actual physics of countersteering are complicated, and while many people think it requires only a simple explanation, panels of physicists have debated exactly why angular momentum, torques and vectors affect your motorcycle.
	www.sportrider.com /ride/146_9912_motorcycle_counter_steering (645 words)

	Legacy of 45
		So the movement of the countersteering in a nutshell is actually a travel to the direction of the front wheel then followed by the banking towards the opposite direction.
		Countersteering is a motion that should be done consciously in the initial stages of practice as it is an uncommon technique not logical to the amateur rider.
		Countersteering is especially effective when you need to dodge something which is most unexpected...
	45j.blogspot.com (2136 words)

	Freddie Spencer's High Performance Riding School: Overview
		It was during that time that I began to exploit the same techniques that I now introduce on the first day of every school: the four ways to steer your motorcycle using countersteering, peg weighting, outside knee pressure against the fuel tank and brake/throttle application.
		Countersteering is the act of pushing on the inside bar (or pulling on the outside) in order to make the motorcycle initiate the corner.
		However, a rider that relies solely on countersteering will be at a disadvantage when compared to a rider that uses the four ways we teach.
	www.fastfreddie.com /news/html/4ways.htm (853 words)

	Netrider - Connecting motorcycle riders in Australia. News, Forums, Links, Classifieds, Articles, Events Calendar, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Countersteering works in all modes of a motorcycles operation, except VERY low speed manoeuvring where the bike actually leans AWAY from the turn.
		Countersteering is so named because, on a single track vehicle, to initiate a right turn you actually turn the handlebars to the LEFT.
		Once you remove the countersteering input the curve on which the motorcycle is travelling will stabilise as the front wheel is now pointing along the line of the curve.
	www.netrider.net.au /articles?page=countersteering (3546 words)

	Counter Steering
		Countersteering works by moving the wheels out from under the bike.
		Countersteering moves the wheels out from under the center of mass of the bike, causing it to lean in the opposite direction.
		When it's time to straighten out, countersteering is again used, this time to move the wheels back underneath the center of mass of the bike and cause it to stand up.
	vf750fd.com /blurbs/counter.html (546 words)

	Motorcycle/Rider simulation. Problems controlling oscillations. - Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		I was pretty darned good and practiced at countersteering, but the combination of the speed, the blind rise/bump entry, and fast right-left-right transition combination kept putting me left or right of the fall line going down the hill.
		With countersteering, you can start the manuver usually okay, but any further additions to the maneuver get really hard as you get the natural tension in your arms as you try to use your arm muscles to save your butt.
		But when you practice body steering all the time, and consciously avoid using countersteering, your arms are relaxed all the time, including in emergency situations, and you basically have open relaxed hands working the controls.
	www.physicsforums.com /showthread.php?p=890888#post890888 (3581 words)

	Motorcycle engineering - "Negative Steering" Please explain. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Having said that,dirt oriented cars also countersteer to go around a corner and they don't lean!!Perhaps there should be a different name for the effect when a bike is on bitumen, maybe,.....
		The front wheel doesn't even have to touch the ground for counter steering to work but it does need to be spinning, as proved by the guy who holds the wheelie record around the Isle of Man TT circuit.
		Countersteering is only one way of making a bike change direction and once in the new direction it ceases to exist!
	www.eng-tips.com /viewthread.cfm?qid=60970 (4283 words)

	Keith Code on Counter Steering
		The steering is so light on a bicycle that riders have difficulty in separating the shift of their body mass (leaning into it) with the slight effort it takes to countersteer.
		The stiffening on the bars creates the countersteering action, because he has either pushed on the inside bar or stiffened and pulled on the outside one or a combination of both.
		The fact is that countersteering is still being argued in the halls of learning with slide rules, Physics formulas and calculators.
	www.vf750fd.com /blurbs/countercode.html (1550 words)

	Self-Service Science Forum Message (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Countersteering is a way of getting your bike to lean to the left very quickly, thus enabling you to steer left very quickly.
		The gyroscopic effect has negligible effect on the stability of a bike with rider, although it somewhat increase the stability of a riderless bike.
		Countersteering also causes a lateral displacement of the front wheel's ground contact point, which assists helps you lean the way you wanna go.
	www2.abc.net.au /science/k2/stn-archive1/posts/topic11717.shtm (804 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		I encourage you to practice that maneuver (along with braking, countersteering, counterweighting, etc.), so it's always fresh in your mind, and so you always know where exactly your limits are.
		For normal street riding, countersteering and leaning with the bike is probably the easiest and most efficient.
		Countersteering is constant relative to the orientation of the handlebars.
	www.dps.state.mn.us /mmsc/latest/MMSC_PFHome.asp?mid=152 (6048 words)

	Body Steering vs. Countersteering - bcsportbikes.com
		The height of your flight is inversely proportionate to the mass of your ass.
		If you hang off the right hand side of the bike to body (lean) steer, you are pulling the left handlebar towards you as you hang off...this in turn, pushes the right handlebar forward due to the pivot center of the handle bar assembly.
		Yes technically you are steering with your body however you are using yoru body to initiate a rotation of the forks thus countersteering.
	www.bcsportbikes.com /forum/showthread.php?t=8256 (1320 words)

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		So, if you are awake, you will have reacted and countersteered long before your bike gets anywhere near the oncoming lane, especially if you give yourself room by positioning your bike in the wheeltrack nearest the wind.
		Continual strong sidewinds require continual subtle countersteering AWAY from the wind direction (to keep the bike "turning" into the wind).
		To deal with a constant wind you simply countersteer gently into the wind so that the bike leans sideways but you keep going straight.
	www.motorcyclephilippines.com /MCPF/Wind.doc (2051 words)

	Articles - Gyroscope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Examples of some free-output-gimbal devices would be the attitude reference gyroscopes used to sense or measure the pitch, roll and yaw attitude angles in a spacecraft or airplane, and the front wheel of a motorcycle.
		Countersteering is how motorcycles turn corners using the gyroscopic roll reaction of the spinning front wheel.
		A control moment gyroscope (CMG) is an example of a fixed-output-gimbal device that is used on spacecraft to hold or maintain a desired attitude angle or pointing direction using the gyroscopic resistance force.
	www.x-moto.net /articles/Gyroscope (978 words)

	Cebucybermoto :: body steering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Those riders who doubt the importance of countersteering owe it to themselves and their loved ones to sign up for an MSF Basic RiderCourse or Experienced RiderCourse as soon as possible.
		At the turn-in point, countersteer while pressing down on the inside peg and pulling your outside knee in and down toward the inside of the turn.
		At the exit of a turn, body steering can help stand a bike up when used in conjunction with countersteering, putting the meat of the tire to the ground, while your hands are busy rolling on the throttle or shifting.
	www.cebucybermoto.com /ccmforum/viewtopic.php?t=406 (611 words)

	How Countersteering Works!
		Countersteering is a method of causing the bike to lean into a turn, and is initiated by pressing on the handgrip in the direction of the turn.
		The result is to steer the wheels out from directly under the bike toward the outside of the turn, rotating the bike around its center of gravity, and leaning it into the turn.
		Even though the pressure applied for countersteering must also be slightly increased for higher speeds, countersteering easily produces the most rapid results.
	www.vsa.cape.com /~wayg/mrep/csteer.htm (328 words)

	Serotta Competition Bicycle Forums - The Physics of countersteering
		This claim is as accurate as the one that authoritatively explains that spokes support the bicycle wheel by hanging the hub from the upper spokes.
		In fact, a bicycle cannot be ridden without countersteer, commonly called balance, and it is this balance that is used to keep the bicycle upright, just as one does while walking, running, ice skating or roller skating.
		For those who ride no-hands, countersteer should be visible and obvious because the bicycle must be leaned away from the preferred lean angle and direction of a curve so that the turn can be initiated.
	www.serotta.com /forum/showthread.php?t=9330 (1733 words)

	Page 4 - Turning without countersteering: photographs and test results
		countersteer to move the contact patch to the right of the C of G. The
		cannot mark the point of countersteer, because it _did_ _not_ _happen_.
		Um, so countersteering is moving the handlebars to the right to make us
	www.cyclingforums.com /t-200772-15-4.html (1952 words)

	CounterSteering - Motorcycle Philippines - The #1 Motoring Enthusiast Community in the Country
		In this application, the term lean means to deviate the bike from its vertical centerline that is 90 degrees from horizon.
		Learning countersteering can be difficult because we were taught differently as kids.
		Because countersteering is contrary to our learned behavior, it requires that you practice until it becomes second nature.
	www.motorcyclephilippines.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1918 (760 words)

	Motorcycle Cruiser magazine on swerving, countersteering and surmounting obstacles
		Countersteering gets its name from the fact that, if you want initiate a turn to the right, you need to turn the motorcycle's handlebar to the left.
		To ease some of the confusion, the Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) coined the phrase, "Push right, go right," which means that you press on the hand grip in the direction you want to go.
		The quickness of the turn initiated by countersteering depends on the force applied to the handgrip.
	www.motorcyclecruiser.com /streetsurvival/steering_skills (1422 words)

	racelisting \| Cornering
		This method is suitable when the road is relatively wide, when you can see the roadway well after the corner, can choose your line ahead of time, and when the lean is brief so pedaling can resume after only a momentary, if any, pause.
		Countersteering is also especially suitable for descents where gravity, rather than pedaling, provides acceleration, and for changing directions quickly and or uncertain corners.
		Steering or turning the handlebar toward the turn and shifting your body weight to the inside of the bicycle allows the bicycle to remain relatively upright.
	www.racelistings.com /rzone/articles/article.asp?recid=320 (1006 words)

	Countersteering and the pushmepullyou - visordown
		When countersteering is it preferable to push or pull on the appropriate bar or bit of both?
		I imagine one of the problems for a learner to ride a C1 is that you do need to countersteer and riders of limited experience may not think about doing it.
		It is an easy bike to steer but feels quite odd, the weight is high (up) and the world tends to look as if you are leaning over a long way through the screen.
	www.visordown.com /forums/showthread.php?t=42222 (1444 words)

	TMW Motorcycle Forums and Bike Pic Photo Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		overhere in my state, countersteering education is a compolsory technique that you are required to demonstrate both effective knowledge of and practicle use of, under examininer conditions, in order to be licensed.
		Countersteering is instinctual, and even when you do it you are typically just barely turning the bars off center, so just leave the students alone in that respect so they can direct more attention to traffic and other threats.
		I'd been riding for close to thirty years before I heard that countersteering was being taught to beginners.
	www.totalmotorcycle.com /BBS/viewtopic.php?p=40456 (1292 words)

	Keith Code's No BS Bike
		Keith Code, a veteran motorcycle road racer, instructor, and author, believes firmly that countersteering is the primary input to cause two-wheelers to turn.
		As a proponent of countersteering, Keith finally got tired of hearing about “body steering” from his students who had attended other track schools, and built an experimental motorcycle to allow riders to prove to themselves whether body steering or countersteering was the dominant cornering input.
		Hurt points out in his paper that the initial steering input to cause the motorcycle to begin to turn causes the front tire contact patch to out-track, and that once the motorcycle is leaned into the turn, a second steering input is required to cause the front wheel to “in-track”.
	www.soundrider.com /archive/safety-skills/nobsbike.htm (1946 words)

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