At the risk of boring everyone to tears, the topic of countersteering keeps nagging away at me. This time, it's been reignited by something I found among my...
... track ... slaughtered !!!. ... you ... cost ... it . ... was ... terrifying ... able if ... around £6,000 this includes full circuit marshals & medical...
... It is not that surprising is it? There are still people out there who flatly deny that they counter steer. They are are people who belive that they 'body...
... Wow... just reading a few lines of that is enough to see how uninformed this person is. I've seen a similar article in a Dutch bike mag, some people still...
... newspaper last year, written by an ex-police 'Class 1' and clearly drivel! ... I loved it when he said [in rain] 'be aware of spray and visor fogging ...
... Yes... However, on an Atlantic, more than a momentary bit of countersteering was needed - more like a continual hard shove! Unlike T-max where only subtle...
... Seems to me that it's the application of centrifugal force to tip the bike into a turn, ie you're riding upright and, quite obviously, in a straight line,...
... Here is my take on countersteering as gleaned from various explanations: To turn left you turn the bars slightly right and the front wheel tracks right....
... Then why didn't you mail it to him then??? I do was rather bemused to find a link that asked me to register - and didn't. It seems to me, silly, naive...
... Ok..6 grand for the place for the day... Let's just for arguments sake say it shouldn't cost each person any more than £30. 6000 / £30 = 200 people...
... Sounds do-able. But look into Public Liability insurance for organised events. ... Especially as the stalls would be paying for a pitch. ... Yes. You...
Well..........Anybody that knows me would say this is something Mick would do. But i won't and i suspect many others wont for the thought of binning it. Very...
... up. ... But of ... could ... people ... dotted ... the ... bad... ... could come to Mallory on the Friday 14th 0f March Which is the 1st practice / launch...
... Gren - that sounds great - if I have my tmax back before then and the day is still clear I'll come up. The whole thing about this race day is that it's...
... may be cheaper. Yep...that's what I'm thinking - but Mallory seems fairly central to the UK. Do you know of any? Or even maybe a disused airstrip that ...
... It's actually not that complex and manufacturers (designers) know pretty well how it works or they don't know how to built a decent bike. It's just that...
Not many of you may recognise this runway.. I do because I fly (as a passenger) in and out of there every week. This scary takeoff of an Illuyshin freighter...
... Well, it all makes perfect sense to me and the fact that you do need to continue counter-steering while you're executing the turn is borne out by the fact...
... Well, you don't continue countersteering really. You only need to put force on the handlebar as if you are countersteering while in fact the front wheel is...
Emile Nossin <Emile@...> Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:49:27 ... There's a whole bunch of factors both with the bike and with the speed/radius of the turn that...
I'm an inside bar man myself, other arm doesn't do a ting. BBC2's Top Gear program April 1988, The FEET FORWARD special NOW AVAILABLE on CD-ROM, contact me for...
Just picked up my front wheel with new ContiTwist fitted: £41.91 supplied, fitted, balanced, etc. to a loose wheel. This compares quite favourably to the...
... Well, on the Atlantic you did....you had to keep the countersteering pressure on, else you'd go straight on! I think they made the Altantic so damned...
... Burgman 400 goes very light at lower speeds and feels like it is dropping into the turns with seemingly no pressure on the inside bar. This took a bit of...
... More a classic example of bad airmanship, lack of preflight preparation, lack of performance calculation skills, paperwork or all of the above. I've seen...
... Gren, Just heard from the repairers - they've only JUST got authorisation to do the work, meaning I won't get my tmax back until the end of March and I'm...
