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    Quote Originally Posted by Seajay View Post
    I think that's reversed, Dogmama. Physics of countersteer says if you want to land on your RIGHT foot you should steer LEFT in the last couple inches of rolling.
    Hmm, I've always turned the wheel left to lean the bike left to step out on my left foot. I figured that if you're making a left turn, the bike is going to lean left.

    But I can feel (in my mind's eye) how steering right would work, except I'm feeling like I'd have to be already leaning left.

    I guess the bottom line is not to land on your bottom!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dogmama View Post
    I figured that if you're making a left turn, the bike is going to lean left.
    And the way you initiate a left lean is by turning the bars to the right. Now you've got a smaller tire circumference on the left side of the front tire, the contact patch is at a less than 180° angle to your forks, and the bike's going to lean to the left. It's called countersteering ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by OakLeaf View Post
    And the way you initiate a left lean is by turning the bars to the right. Now you've got a smaller tire circumference on the left side of the front tire, the contact patch is at a less than 180° angle to your forks, and the bike's going to lean to the left. It's called countersteering ...
    this sounds like technical talk to me...where is the blinkey thing?
    To train a dog, you must be more interesting than dirt.

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