Cornering on a Road Bike.

[yenrod]

I can only feel, that if, I counter-steered then I'd be off the road/bike...

 

[John the Monkey]

I can only feel, that if, I counter-steered then I'd be off the road/bike...

I tried this in a small way on a quiet stretch of the commute this morning - it's a bit of a revelation, tbh, based on a couple of reasonably quick turns, on nice dry roads it works. I'll be experimenting with it further, I think.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

I am intrigued - it all sounds counter intuitive... but I'm willing to give it a go... perhaps when not in full traffic flow though.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

I shall report back here from my hospital bed with my findings...

 

[LLB]

I am intrigued - it all sounds counter intuitive... but I'm willing to give it a go... perhaps when not in full traffic flow though.

When you turn the bars in the opposite direction, it tips the bike onto the edge of the tyre. This reduces the rolling radius of the wheel and that pulls you back in the opposite direction.

 

[skwerl]

Make sure your tires have some decent tread before you start leaning to the extreme, and remember it's a lot more differcult when it's wet.

Tread has nothing to do with grip on road-tyres. It's there to disperse water which prevents aquaplaning though, on the average road bike, that won't happen until you're travelling in the region of 180MPH.
ie tread on road-tyres=waste of time.


Edit - appears Destry already pointed this out

 

[Smeggers]

Cornering is like Golf, in that the more you think about it the worse you become.

Which is way I refuse to read the rest of this thread

 

[Fab Foodie]

I can only feel, that if, I counter-steered then I'd be off the road/bike...

It's impossible to turn a bike without countersteering, you do it intuitively every time you change direction, you may not think you do... but you must, otherwise you'd crash a lot.

 

[skwerl]

think about it. If you were riding along in a striaght line at 20MPH and you suddenly turned the bars to the left, what would happen?
Thnk carefully...

 

[dodgy]

think about it. If you were riding along in a striaght line at 20MPH and you suddenly turned the bars to the left, what would happen?
Thnk carefully...

Sky, ground, sky, ground, sky and ground

(just joking)

Dave.

 

[domtyler]

Roads were in a lovely, nay perfect, condition this morning. Lots of recent rain has scrubbed them clean but they are now dry as a bone and imparting fabulous grip to my GP4000S's.

 

[Fab Foodie]

think about it. If you were riding along in a striaght line at 20MPH and you suddenly turned the bars to the left, what would happen?
Thnk carefully...

You'd fall-off the RHS of the bike.

 

[skwerl]

Roads were in a lovely, nay perfect, condition this morning. Lots of recent rain has scrubbed them clean but they are now dry as a bone and imparting fabulous grip to my GP4000S's.

as they were with my Ultremos until I hit a fecking pothole and caught a flint puncture. F*cking council - can I sue them? Same goes for the shards of glass outside the bars on Battersea rise that wrote off two tyres (inlcuding a two-day-old Ultremo) in 3 weeks.

 

[Joe24]

Tried the counter steering today. Got more confident with it and started to push it abit more. Feels really weird, but could see how it works. Unfortunatly, i didnt do one of the faster courners doing it as it was a red light, might try that tomorrow.

 

[Disgruntled Goat]

Watch Sanchez coming down the Tourmalet this afternoon.

THAT'S how you corner.