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Originally Posted by Mashuri
After reading all this I'm leaning (pun intended) toward the gyroscope camp. Question, PSk: Why would I, at parking lot speeds, need to steer my bars into the corner to get the bike to lean and turn that direction while, as speeds begin to get above 10-15 mph or so, I now have to countersteer to get the same results? What has caused the forces against the headstock to completely reverse direction?
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That's a great question.
At parking lot speeds, you don't
feel like you're countersteering, but in a way you actually are. You're just using body english to start the lean. To really notice the countersteering effect, you have to have a little more forward speed.
The problem is, it's really hard to measure what you're doing at parking lot speed. You may feel like you're perfectly straight up and down, and when you turn the bar to the right, you go right. But it doesn't happen that way.
In reality, at slow speeds when you lean your body to the right, you actually start to fall to the right - just as you would if you were parked. You then turn the bar to the right in order to "catch" the bike and keep it from falling all the way over.
So, rather than "turn the bar to the right and the bike goes to the right", it's really the other way around.
Trust me, Mashuri, it's not the gyro effect that makes you turn. I wouldn't *steer* you wrong on this one...
