A lot of riders talk about pushing with their feet to steer, but they're just changing the way put the input into the bars. When you say "you can't steer with your feet" they challenge you to a no-hands ride, and lo and behold they can ride no hands, but all they're just torquing the bars with body position. When they're forced to hold onto the sub bars (brake throttle clutch the works, you get it up to speed and then swap) they can't resort to the old habits, and hopefully realize that you steer with the bars.
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Originally Posted by jager
Actually to clarify, IMO Keith Code never said that "trying to steer the bike with your body [peg pressure] simply does not work." My interperation of what he said was that you could steer a bike using your body [peg pressure] alone, but it is not a reliable, accurate, or consistant means of steering a motorycle at a street/race track pace. This was proved by riding both the no bs machine and the same type of motorcycle without the no bs setup. Countersteering proved to be a much better way to steer the bike. Of course its not black and white, its like front and rear brakes you should really use both technics together to really turn a motorcycle and get the best results.
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