How to use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn Your Motorcycle
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- čas přidán 23. 12. 2022
- In today’s video we’ll talk about how the motorcycle steering works, and specifically we’ll focus on the concept of countersteering. If you haven’t heard about countersteering yet - this is your lucky day, because today you’ll learn how you can lean your bike really fast and really far, like you never did before. And if you already heard of countersteering, but still have some doubts about it and can’t wrap your head around it - don’t worry, I promise it’ll become super clear by the end of this video. All you have to do - is to listen and watch closely. I divided the whole explanation into small and very easy steps, followed one by one. Again, all you have to do is to watch, listen, and not skip anything, because each step will be very important.
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if you are new, dont let any of this intimidate you. Take your bike to an empty lot and practice whatever you are comfortable with, at your level, and pace. It will click when its suppose to.
And if one is really "squimish", just ride a bicycle, two wheeled vehicles ( with rounded patched tires to be exact) can only be steered by leaning, you just feel its direct steering but direct steering does not work at all, try as you may on a two wheeled vehicle :D , it leans for gosh darn reason, something to do with its tires and the fact it only has two wheel :D Physics is magic
@@mannyechaluce3814 i learnt how to counter steer while riding a bicycle before i got a moto licence lol its just the same thing but require mote strength
I just start my story with Motorbikes, decide to buy Vulcan S. As You said, I train everyday 2-3 hour, I feel that's was a great idea, to listen people like You, its help a lot.
Invaluable✌️ Not ridden 100 miles yet and riding like a manikin on a unicycle, but this make so much sense. Hopefully I will survive a little longer now. Thanks👍
Thanks. I’m starting to understand more the more I watch this video.
I've been riding 42 years, all year round. This guy is by far the best I've seen on YT in terms of teaching riding technique.
I've ridden motorcycles for 20 years & bicycles for 40, never have i seen such a great explanation & brakedown of this topic. Absolutely correct when you say "you're probably already doing it but just didn't know" I fall into that category. Phenomenal content, great editing, & your English is on point (read the description😉). Subscribed! 👍
Check motojitsu channel also.
MCrider is very helpful also. Has a good focus on how to stay save on the road.
On bicycle I don't think I steer much and more counter but I lean with body
Why don’t you do the same instead of watching this video? 😝
I believe at this point this should be a mandatory video lesson for beginner drivers and I truly hope that everyone who watches this video has some patience and pays careful attention for better understanding.
Excellent explanation of counter steering. Most of the time, you just hear, "You have to counter steer," but what does that mean? It's the "...brief period when we apply the force on the handle bars to change the lean angle..." Your explanation of initiating lean is the easiest for most people to grasp, and is simple - initiate lean opposite the turn direction so that the bike can turn into the direction desired. Plus, you are not leaning, only the bike is. You are actually staying upright, allowing the bike to lean beneath you.
the "funny" thing is that "you" and the "bike" form a shape-shifting vehicle with a moving centre of mass. "pressing" the bike into the turn (i.e. staying upright while the bike leans) is more related to comfort and oversight than to physics.
although keeping the torso largely in one space lowers the moment of inertia around the roll axis facilitating quicker leaning at slower speeds.
I agree wholeheartedly explained very well
Finally - an explanation that actually makes sense.
Nobody, including instructors, have been able to explain countersteering in a way that suggests they understand how it works - they all just sound confused themselves.
Thanks.
As someone from a country where there are tons of motorcycles and NO academies whatsoever I have to say: thank you.
I paid the Honda Official School and it had a 50x50m garage to practice and honestly, I have learnt SO MUCH MORE with your videos.
So, sincerely, thank you.
What country are u from
@@cyb8490 Costa Rica! Land of landscapes and massive potholes on the streets
mae estaba pensando en ir a la Honda, no lo recomendás?
@@Rodrigo.Murillo TL;DR: pague la primera vez, y si nunca ha tocado moto, pague la 2da. Versión full: mae, la primera clase que lleva teoría es muy buena. Enseñan cosas básicas muy esenciales, además de prevención y legislación que no le van a enseñar en ningún otro lado. Si nunca ha tocado moto y va de cero, la práctica sirve y aprende como a nivel de "para sacar la licencia". El plantel sí es bastante pequeño como para ver bien frenadas de emergencia xq no da para agarrar más de 30km/h con suerte. Los conos los va a aprender a hacer, pero justo como Andrey dice que no se hacen en este canal hehe muchos conceptos que me enseñaron como el "contramanillar" es justo lo q Andrey dice q muchas veces se enseña mal, pero él propone fundamento de por qué, entonces le creo más.
@@rkcproducciones6828 Pura vida, estuve pensando como para afinar estos ejercicios pero eso es lo que me deja duda, porque veo en muchos vídeos que ellos van a los parqueos a practicar, pero acá no he visto como un lugar que uno pueda hacer eso sino es en la calle, por eso pensaba que tal vez en las clases de ellos sí. Gracias por responder!
9:23 This is the core summary of the entire topic! Countersteer is any change of handlebar direction that is opposite to lean angle. Thanks for separating the leaning from turning!
We can even expand the understanding. When we are done turning, we briefly turn the handlebar ‘more inside’ to make the bike stand up. It’s also the same countersteering.
We better call it “the principle of countersteer” instead of treating it like some special technique. All self-balancing objects must move its lower body outside in order to lean inside. All bikes change the lean angle by the principle of countersteer. Turn right to lean left, not go left.
I've been riding for over 15 yrs and I've never had counter steering explained so eloquently, what a comprehensive explanation, thank you so much, I appreciate you family!
You are saving lives with this video
- bravo
Probably the best counter steering video on CZcams. Good job
The Very Best explanation I've heard......bar none
I've been riding for several years now, and you are the first person to explain counter-steering clearly and in a way I was able to understand. Wish I had this back when I was first learning how to ride. I learned everything by myself very slowly and still didn't realize what I was doing was counter-steering. Amazing video.
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This is without a doubt the best video on the subject of counter steering. Even though I have been riding bikes and knowingly using CS for over twenty years, I had yet to find a video that give clear and precise explanations of each aspect, to where one wasn't over stimulated by too much information all at once.
Wow! This is impressively explained imo, never have I been able to understand it this clearly before. It makes way more sense as an initial input, not for the whole turn.
That's a really good video, mate. Your personal riding skills are of a high standard, and your personable manner and clear, logical explanations really gets the message across.
Great channel!! Many YT channels talk about bikes, some (often American) talk about 'beginners'bikes referring to 400ccs a 'small' bikes which is really rediculous. 400ccs already are VERY powerful. They recommend these huge bikes without giving any technique tips and exercises. Just buy the thing and figure it out. If you survive the first year. Your channel is obligatory viewing for all bikers, especially beginners. I always recommend learning the basics on a 50cc. Anyway, great channel!
Your explanation and simple discription of how to steer at slow speeds are by far the best of the many videos I've seen...you are one KOOL DUDE!
Professor of Orbital Mechanics, thanks for the video it was great!
I refuse to counter steer! I will only steer directly! I don’t care about physics! I do what I want! 😂
J/K - thanks for this. When I recover from my latest accident in about 7 weeks, I will try these exercises. I already started experimenting with counter steering while riding before, but never understood its full potential until now. You rock! 🤘🏾
You have the best explanation and the best accent! Thanks!
Nice work, thank you. I'm 67 and there's always more to learn. Been riding since 1969 and quit for 11 years in 2012 until now. Just bought a Cf Moto 700 clx and having the most fun I've had on a bike in a very long time. Thanks again, really enjoy your instructions.
I was able to understand what you explain here ad I did not Start riding yet . Perfectly explanation.
by far the best explanation on the basics of steering i have seen. i was struggling to understand.
This all finally makes sense! So many videos and people (even instructors) explained it to me, but I still feared the "slow turn". Thank you for making that fear vanish. Now I feel ever more playful on my bike.
Thank you for the clearest video on CS and motorcycle physics I've seen.
most vloggers will say counter steering only works on high speed. he showed them wrong.. crazy how he explains everything in detail and those bike skills man
I appreciate these simple yet in-depth and highly detailed explanations. Thank you.
I’ve seen lots of motorcycle tutorials but yours are by far the best. I’ve never heard anyone explain things so clearly and logically. Somehow the accent makes it even more effective, I love it :)
Better than paid training.
At least if you enjoy physics and science behind a bike.
Really full of fundamental properties! Excellent video!
Best explanation of steering that I have ever heard!
So many people yap and yap about this. You are the first to talk about this simple engineering fact discovered centuries ago. The rake angle and gravity. It is built into every single steering system ever made. Bicycles,cars, office chairs and baby trolleys. With different rake angles you achieve the different steering effects that are explained so well in this video.
I first found out about this when I was around 10. Being Dutch, I always cycled to school and I wondered why it was impossible to move away from the curb when you went too close so your front tire was scraping the curb
Been riding for over 5 years now and have never been able to grasp this concept until this breakdown. Of course its something you do naturally but being able to manipulate this at low speeds is super useful! Thank you for this!
From someone thats been riding a while i never understood counter steering. Now i know i just didnt realise i was doing it. Thank you man!
This is the best explanation I have seen! Thanks. Interesting, it reminds me when I was a kid and used to 'play around' on the push bike. I'm sure I was performing counter steering without realising it.Seems to be all very intuitive and training 'muscle memory'.
This is the second video I am watching from this guy but I love the accent plus the questions. "WHY DIDNT I NOTICE THIS BEFORE??!?!?!" Informative and entertaining too. Great video editing on this channel and one more scubscriber here. I will be working my way back through these videos.
Great stuff for any rider. I've been on bikes for years and still learn new and importante basics. Jeep up the great work. Cheers from Portugal 🇵🇹
EVERY ONE OF YOUR TUTORIALS IS EXCELLENT!!! You blow away all the other instructors.
You're on your way to millions of subscribers!
Thank you!!!
Thinking of learning to ride a motor bike.... I've noticed the bike turns the way your head is looking.... Thanks for the really detailed information
Great explanation, I've had people argue till they're blue in the face that they don't counter steer...!!!!
When, sometimes, I tried to communicate this information, it seemed to me that the fact that you could mantain up a stopped bicycle just by acting on the steering was enough to demonstrate that it was the steering that kept you up, but it never worked for anyone: as you say in the video, the answer was: I haven't never done counter steering! Bravo
I've been riding motorcycles as my only mode of transport for close to a decade now and I still learned something new.
.... that's why countersteering is always a part of any good motorcycle course. My courses are also good by the way....
The way you narrate these videos are very interesting
I've watched many videos re counter steering but none matches your explantaion style which makes it crystal clear...
Thks for your valuable efforts and best wishes
This video is great, thank you! I went out and practiced and within 10 minutes was making easy, smooth, and near full lock u turns. Also was able to successfully complete u turns from a stop in both directions. Thank you 🏍️
Why you don't have more subscribers is beyond me. Some of the very best training and instructional videos anywhere!
I don't even have a bike yet but feel a million times more confident after hearing this explanation. Was definitely like wtf?!! before watching this. Great work, thanks.
I’ve watched more videos than I’d like to admit, on this subject. And this is, by far, the most in depth video… providing the best explanation I’ve watched.
Very well explained and demonstrated, in fact, the best I have seen to date, well done.
This is so unbelievably well explained.
I was sitting here under the impression that riders HOLD their handle bars through the entire corner, and physically turn it throughout the entire corner, sort of "manhandling it". This explains why i kept falling over in my 1st lesson (where the instructor didnt explain anything to me, at all).
I kept trying to hold onto the handle bars like if it was a steering wheel, of course the front wheel then couldnt auto-correct at all.
Very interesting. When I was riding (50 years ago) I naver heard of countersteering, it was just a technique I discovered for myself, as a means (I thought) of initiating a turn a bit more quickly. Never knew a thing about the theory and principles. It was just doing what comes naturally. Wish I'd had your videos then. But the internet was undreamt of then.
You're so right I've been riding for so many years and never realized i'm counter steering instinctively.
This is a brilliant channel, best explanation and demonstration of riding techniques. Bike riding is amazing, so much more engaging than cars.
Omg I’m a total beginner from Hong Kong but this is an eye opener. I’ve seen a few accidents recently due to lack of understanding of counter steering! People have not even heard of it every time I ask motorcyclists!
Really clear and patient explanations. I can't wait to get my 1st bike and practice everything you said. Thank you for helping us noobs!
I'm a new rider befor seeing this I was scared of doing this leaning thing now I'm more confident 😂 I will take the bike to an empty parking lot and try this I might fall but I think it will be a lot less
Brilliant video - even better than a couple of other great videos on CZcams, and that is saying something. What is really tough for me is that I have already learned this stuff subconsciously for years, and it scares me to start just pushing handlebars just to see what happens! Why bother then? is a good question. Answer is I now live in a region with very much more challenging and mountainous terrain, and it has given me a shock as to how much more skills I need to not overcook bends or come off on wet corners and gravelly roads - if I am ever to keep up with traffic that is. Going deeper has undermined my confidence at the moment - like I say I have done the easier bends for many years, or just gone very slow for the occasional one - but I think in the end practice and understanding what I am doing will make me a much better and safer rider. Shame I can't do rider courses, but if you can ride to one safely at traffic speed from where I live, by then you will pass with flying colours.
Best combination of physical aspects and practice, you can learn with your brain AND with your feelings. You are a great teacher!
Absolutely best slow speed handling instruction ,clear to the point a wealth of information packed in a brief lesson.
Been riding 7 yrs.. I been counter steering without knowing it the whole time.. now I actually understand it 😅😅 great video!!
I love counter steering but the physics of it always have me confused. Now i get it. Thankyou 😊
this is the most comprehensive video i have watched on counter steering...thanks much
Great video, excellent breakdown of how countersteering and motorbike stability works. With useful stuff to practice - the idea of leaving the bars to do what they do is one I hadn't found in the numerous other videos I've seen on this, so I'm looking forward to getting out to practice. Thank you 😎
I just started riding a year ago. Really helpful. ❤️ From India 🇮🇳
Hi again, I watch your Videos over and over again. If I’m practicing and having a little trouble, I just watch the Video again. I hope you and your Family are doing Okay. Your Videos are the best on the Internet for learning how to Ride a Motorcycle correctly. I have been Riding for 50 Years and have learned A Lot from your Videos. Thanks again for making these.👍👍
OUTSTANDING VIDEO.... Started riding after a 30 year break, took the instruction course but still need some practice. Been using local parking lots to practice. For me... I take it easy, improving a little each time out. Im in no rush to tackle highways rights now. Russia has as many Poor drivers as America. Thanks again...great video.
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Best video on counter steering explanation I've ever seen. Been doing it years and started recently trying to comprehend it and really appreciate your explanation.
I've been riding lower cc bikes for a long time and will be buying big displacement bike soon. Been researching and following some driving/racing schools and on the internet hoping to have an explanation and to learn about counter steering. Well, this video answered all my questions when I heard that word "initial" meaning the first input on the handle bar before the turn. And now I know that, what I thought was counter steering was actually drifting.
Thank you so much.
Gotta love your video presentation! Definitely Award-winning material for a film festival somewhere. Thank you very much!
Thank you sir for your Love care and teaching 💕
I think the only reason this is sooo much debated - and indeed argued - is that countersteering is so intuitive. My old granny used it on her bicycle and I used it on my Puch Dakota in the 60s - still neither of us knew shit about the steering principles. I have seldom or never seen such a good explanation as Andrey's.
Underrated video. Great explanation and awesome video steps to go along with it.
This was the best explanation of countersteering I have ever seen. Incredibly helpful for new riders or riders that do not fully exploit the control that countersteering offers. Thank you!
Thanks for really explaining countersteering. Most of the other guys have done a terrible job because they would only showeñ the start of the.maneuver and make it seem as if you end up doing some sort of drifting like the dirt bike guys you showed.
Subscribed dude! Love how you broke down the process. I've been doing this the whole time I've been riding and didn't know. That helps me become more aware of how to control it now. Thanks a ton!
One of the best videos on counter steering I've seen and very nicely presented. Thanks.
Finally! Someone explains it in an understandable way
The best video on the topic ❤ i loved the little snippet sounds and stop shots to explain the countersteering moment. Thank you!!
Wonderful and very helpful lesson, explanation is clear and so easy to understand. Thank you and thumbs up
since toddlerhood, ive riden bikes till now, but never had known these topics, thanks you much for this very informative/educational explaination,,,
Thank you !!. As a new rider I just can't wrap my head around the idea of counter steering. But this video really helped me understand it better
You're the first person to explain countersteering in a way that I could understand. I'm not yet a motorcyclist but I'm not dumb either. Thank you very much. Cheers.
What a great video. I learned this when I moved to Japan and had to redo part of my license in order to get my Japanese motorcycle license. However this is brilliantly explained
I appreciate your Humour, Great Driving skills,the eloquent,fluet communication AND Love for The beginners
I've learnt so much from this video. Thank you so much for the detailed explanation!
This is the best explanation of counter steering. It answers all questions, and the demo is executed very well.
Best video on countersteering on CZcams! Spasibo :)
This is the best explanation and break down of examples I have ever seen and heard. Super info/instructional videosplination 👍🏼
Thanks for this very informative video. As soon temperatures are getting better I’ll try your practice drills!
Your explanations and demonstrations are really very good and very clear, I have found your videos very helpful 😉👍. I loved the clear explanation of counter steering especially at low speed.
Outstanding explanation with even more outstanding demonstrations! Thankyou for creating such clear presentations!!
Very helpful video. Thank you so much for the clear and simple explanation. I'm looking forward to using these steps to increase my slow speed maneuvering.
16:13 🤣 Awesome content! I've been binge watching your videos since I started the motorcycle license course here (2 weeks now) and it has really helped me loosen up on the bike and perform the required manoeuvres almost with ease. Thank you!
This is absolutely amazing u gave us science, instruction, and practical practice tips all in one video… will be share if this with anyone I can… thank you
Even as a seasoned rider, there's always sth new to learn from your videos, also great and to the point explanations, kudos!
Hey man, thankyou for this video! Absolutely brilliant explanation of the steering dynamics of a motorcycle. Keep the videos coming...ive got a lot to learn.
This is by far the best video on counter steering I’ve seen on CZcams. Thanks for sharing this! As a newbie rider this is super helpful.
Hi Moto. This was the best explanation of counter steering that I have watched. I have ridden for a number of years and likely used this some but not to the extent you teach. Thanks very much for that clear understanding.