How to Turn a Motorcycle - Counterweight vs Countersteering

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1. i just realized this is like riding a bike. Like i thought it would be hard but i realized i do this every other day on a bicycle feelsbadman. drivers ed got me fucked up
2. 2016 anyone
3. After the part about the transition from steering to countersteering, I'm sorry but this is so wrong in so many places.
   
   Changing direction does not come from shifting weight. It's all in controlling the front wheel with the bars. Weight shift controls lean angle. Sit bolt upright on the saddle, shove the bars as needed, and the bike will change direction every time. Lean off to one side without moving the bars (harder to do than it seems - almost any move will means a slight tug on the bars) and the most you can hope for is a slow change in direction.
   
   Newton's First Law says a body at rest stays at rest unless acted on by an external force (a rock doesn't just decide to move). It says a body in motion stays in motion unless acted on by an external force. (It's easier to push a moving car then to start it moving) It says a body in motion will move in a straight line unless acted on by an external force. (Spin a bucket at the end of a piece of rope and it goes in a circle until the rope breaks and stops tugging - the bucket will keep in going in the direction it was moving when the rope broke - or tangent to the arc of motion, to get a little more technical)
   (For anyone who cares, the Second Law is about describing the forces mentioned in the First Law. The Third Law is the "for every action, there is an equal but opposite reaction" law.)
   
   The rider is pulled outside of the turn when the bike changes direction (the rider "wants" to go straight while the bike changes direction - rope and bucket time). Since the bike leans into the turn, the rider is mostly pushed down on the saddle. How much lean and pushing happens is tied to the speed of the bike and the tightness of the turn. Low speed sweeper - not much happening. High speed tight turn - the push becomes more obvious. Inertia flipping the rider forward in a turn? You flunked physics 101.
   
   I gave up at 4:36. I ran out of fingers for counting the problems. Please, read a book like David Hough's Proficient Motorcycling or Bernt Spiegel's The Upper Half of the Motorcycle or material from MSF and then try a how to turn video.
   
   (my apologies if I've doubled my post - I wrote something here and it's gone)
4. It should also be mentioned: when you counter steer... The wheel isn't always pointing the opposite direction. It slides inline. Well... "Slides" inline.
5. Now also weighting the inside peg and pushing with your outside thigh into the tank and keeping your arms and hand loose/relaxed on the bars.
6. I never liked "press left" or "press right" because it is misleading and vague. I know it is vague because one of the commenters below asked about the direction you press. What it should be is "press in the direction of motion on the left or right". An easier way that I learned is to attempt to turn in the opposite direction from which you want to go.
   
   That said, I don't use counter-steering much. I don't know the name for what I do but I just pull in the direction I want to go; I pull at right angles to the axis of the bike. I am literally leaning the bike over while keeping my body upright.
   
   Further, for small changes, I'm not sure what I'm doing -- it just happens. Some of it involves changes to how I weight my buttocks and some of it has to do with body lean.
7. so let's say i'm pressing left I have to lean right?
8. This is the only video that actually made me understand this Thanks bro!
9. Actually, you shouldn't lean your body right on low speeds. Instead, you should turn your hips and shoulders towards were you go. This allows for more sensitive balancing and easier view of what coming in front of you. Just like Motocross riders do in difficult terrain. It applies to other bikes as well...
10. Riding a motorcycle is instinctive so trying to articulate counter steering is confusing to actually being on a bike and making things happen. Why confuse a simple process.
11. I want my ten minutes back...
12. I cant go 8 miles/h with my fatboy, the bike start kicking for more, the only way is driving in the friction zone.
13. Thank you
14. I have a question as a new rider..after the lean how do you center yourself back once you let go.of the lean will the bike adjust by it self? or will I have to straighten the bike myself? thanks.
15. For some reason, when im on a motorcycle, it's harder for me to make a left turn than a right. I have all the confidence but it just feels like I'm losing grip and Im about to slip. I can make right turns very easily and fast. I don't know why this happens
16. Thanks for doing this video. I had watched other countersteering videos and came away still not completely understanding the concept. I like the way you broke it down with the back explanation for why you do it because that helped it make sense. I tried to ride the same way I would ride a bicycle and now I understand the physics behind why that won't work. You can steer a bicycle without needing countersteering because you weigh much more than the bicycle does and so you can steer it just by shifting your weight. Unless you are a total fatass, your motorcycle weighs more than you do and, thus, you can't steer it by shifting your body weight the way you can a bicycle. Now I get it.
17. at 7:05 how long do you wanna take to cancel your indicator xD
18. Great tutorial! I bought my first bike some 30 years ago. I read an article about this back then and tested it irl. This have saved me several times. Easy once you know how it actually works,, but if you don't - you'll end in the ditch if the street turns but you don't.... I sent a link to this video to my son who is about to start to drive a motorcycle, a Ducati (what elsel) btw.
19. you should define counter stearing by forcing v the lean angle