and here is a video of me counter steering through a set of bends ... these bends are S bends and go left, right, left very quickly ... I don't lean through these bends at all, I stay central on the bike at all times ..the bike is cornering rapidly through them because I am using counter steering and nothing else .. in fact if I was to try and lean off for each bend it would slow me up through them simply because I would not have enough time to physically clamber from one side of the bike up over centre and down the other side before the next bend ... there is just simply no need to "lean" for bends like this and you can see how quickly counter steering allows the bike to be guided through the bends, flipping quickly from one side to the other without much effort on the bars either :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBD0e...e=channel_page


Jules

 

 

hahaha

 

It's a really hard concept to understand when you're starting out- took about a month for me to really understand why I was doing what I was doing.

One realization I came to with cornering was that I was holding the handlebars too tightly. You're really only pushing with one hand, and you're not using a death grip; if you're holding both of them really tightly you're working against yourself.