Steering a bike
Ever thought about how much you need to actually turn the handlebars of your bike to go round corners?
Suppose you come up to a bend at, oh, sixty mph, then by how many degrees do you turn the steering... well, today I went and found out. I stuck a twig on to my instrument cluster at the middle of the handlebars with insulating tape so that when I turned the steering the end of the twig would sweep over the dash and give some idea of how much I was turning the bars.
No, scientific it wasn't, but it showed that I was not turning the bars AT ALL. Not a sossidge. Agreed, I must have been doing something to get round the bends, but I didn't seem to be steering it round. Mind, it's quite different at low speed, roundabouts etc. And reverse steering too, that's something else again.
Just thought I'd mention it, that's all.
John
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