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Originally Posted by Proteus
Countersteering sounds more complicated than it really is, and if you've ever ridden a bicycle at speed you already know how to do it intuitively. Becoming conscious of countersteering is what allows you to progress.
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After teaching this stuff for a while now, the big deal about countersteering is your knowingly doing it on purpose or it's happening naturally. When you knowingly do it on purpose, you start to take advantage of it's effectiveness to steer the bike more quickly and with less effort.
Even after the years of track riding I have done, I still feel how quickly and easily the bike falls over with a straight forward countersteer vs pushing the bars down at some angle. As documented in TOTW2, the bars only move one way, forward and back. Pushing them down does not help you steer, it's just wasted energy. You ever wonder how those endurance racers can race for 3+ hours straight? This is one of the ways, they don't waste energy.