Fuck Cars
This community exists as a sister community/copycat community to the r/fuckcars subreddit.
This community exists for the following reasons:
- to raise awareness around the dangers, inefficiencies and injustice that can come from car dependence.
- to allow a place to discuss and promote more healthy transport methods and ways of living.
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Yep.
Wait, what? Countersteering is about manipulating the contact patch relative to the center of gravity. The side of the tire has relatively no relevance.
@sping From my perspective as a bicyclist, it is the key to understanding counter-steering:
When one is riding the center of the tire, one is in normal steering.
However, when one is riding the *side* of the tire, then counter-steering is happening, and one is *climbing* on the side-ish part of the tire.
That matches the experience.
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Experience is misleading and not only is what you describe not countersteering, it's also not how bicycles steer. The primary input is the angle of turn of the handlebars. The complication is that on a balanced vehicle like a bicycle you can't just point the wheel where you want to go or you'd just fall over to the outside of the turn. So, before you steer where you wan to go, you have to point it in the opposite direction to initiate a lean.
Many people get quite heated, insisting they do not do this on a bicycle, and believe all sorts of other things. But the fact is this is what everyone does and it's the only way to steer a bicycle, it's just that it's quite possible to ride without realizing this is what you're doing.
@sping I now know that there are *2* different, distinct, phenomena, both called "counter steering", that have nothing to do with each-other.
What you describe is what some call counter steering.
What I'm talking about is when you are in the lean, if you lean the bike a bit more, while steering a few degrees *out* from the turning you are doing, while "climbing through the turn on the sidewall", the bike goes 'round like it's on rails, while keeping its center-of-gravity low.
That is what *I*, and some others, mean when talking about "counter steering".
It has nothing whatsoever to do with what one does with the steering when the bike is upright.
And it wasn't the Fornine vid I was remembering, so I've no idea who it was who also means what I mean.
What a shoddy mess that is: the same label for distinct different phenomena, that are similar.
That is the wrong way of making language "work".
Cheers.
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You're certainly tenacious - an entire Wikipedia page telling you the definition, not including your definition, and telling you it's how bicycle steering works doesn't slow you down!
I think rather than arguing with me you should correct Wikipedia and see how far you get. You should also attend to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_dynamics, that weirdly doesn't seem to mention your special facts on how bicycle steering works.