by Keith Code: California
Superbike School
Steering a motorcycle results from the process
of pushing the inside bar forward, the same angle and direction the forks
rotate in the steering head bearings. You can also pull on the outside bar.
You can do both push and pull. That is what turns it, that is all that turns
it with any degree of accuracy, efficiency, quickness or smoothness. That
and only that, No B.S.
Now if you want to look a little further into this, what you will see is
this; riders who still labor under the misconception that they body-steer
are devoting themselves in a system that can do a great deal of actual harm.
Firstly, it is seriously misguided to add an additional series of actions to
the steering process. When it is quick, critical steering that is needed to
avoid something, that lag I have observed so many times in street riders,
could cost you your hide.
Adding 2/10ths to 5/10ths of a second, or more, to the steering procedure
at 60 mph means that you have just gone another 18 to 44 feet, or more, down
the road before you started to avoid that muffler lying in your path. Kids,
don't try this at home.
The way things are going there will be warning labels on motorcycles in
the not too distant future.
WARNING: THIS VEHICLE COUNTER-STEERS. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND
COUNTERSTEERING DO NOT RIDE. SEEK THE HELP OF A QUALIFIED
PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTOR.
