"Look where you want to go"

[ZenBiker_imp]

I've been practicing this for decades, and I still haven't perfected it, that is, been perfectly consistent. Sometimes I find myself looking for road debris, at stuff on the shoulder, or too far inside the curve searching for oncoming vehicles, etc. Also, occasionally I still find myself pushing on the outside grip instead of counter-steering in curves. Combined with not looking where I want to go, I can end up in some very floaty, wobbly curves, followed by some vigorous self-counselling on exit.

I take the MSF advanced rider course every other year. In one class our instructor told the story of a touring biker cruising through Kansas when he ran off the road into a vast, wide-open cornfield--well, almost wide open. There was just one thing in the field, in his path: the center pivot for a traveling irrigation system. He hit it. Target fixation 'n all.

I assume you find yourself turning in the wrong direction when you do that? Or you saying you find yourself pulling the outside grip instead of pushing the inside grip? (either works, you just have more leverage doing the push on the inside than the pull on the outside).

I assume you find yourself turning in the wrong direction when you do that? Or you saying you find yourself pulling the outside grip instead of pushing the inside grip? (either works, you just have more leverage doing the push on the inside than the pull on the outside).

To clarify, I mean twisting the handlebars rather than counter-steering. That is, pushing on the outside grip, and pulling on the inside grip--as in turning a T-handle on a press, or turning your Big Wheel handlebars when you were a kid, or a like a clown on a clown bicycle, etc. Not pushing and pulling hard, but just leaning, twisting, and floating through the curve. Watch some wipe-out videos on YouTube and you'll see what I mean. I'd tell you to try it sometime, but don't.