Motorcycle - Bicycle Steering / Safety tips and techniques:

You want to ride with more confidence and steer more precisely?
Or you don't feel well enough with the countersteering technique?

Then click on these links:

1. The new Torso-Arms-Handlebar steering theory:

The Torso-Arms-Handlebar mechanism explains where stability comes from at slow speeds and the three steps when going into a turn.

2. Evidence supporting the new steering theory

Eight pieces of evidence accumulated over the last 30 years and supporting this theory: Testing the Torso-Arms-Handlebar mechanism, Minimum stable speed, Slow motion images, Lean angles prediction, Steering swiftness, Factor isolation, Torso projection and Crossing hands.

3. Recommendation to increase driving precision and safety

Recommendation to increase driving precision and safety, even in emergency and panic situations.

 

If you design, build or ride futuristic 2-Wheeler concepts,
then don't miss this section:

4. New motorcycle concepts

Development and analysis of safer and more comfortable motorcycle concepts.

 

And if you want to:

- Compare the new 2-Wheeler steering theory with other known theories,

- Or know more about the contributions and limits of nine (9) of these other theories,

Then click on this section:

5. Nine other known steering theories

Keeping balance, Gyroscopic reactions, Front fork geometry, Countersteering, Weight on foot pegs, Body lateral shifting, Target fixation, Camber steer and Accelerate to straighten up.

 

Site map of the present 2-Wheeler Site

Pierre Ethier's General 2-Wheeler/3Wheeler home-index

 

Have fun exploring this site dedicated to better understanding of bicycle and motorcycle steering.
And have fun rediscovering your 2-Wheeler following your back instantly and precisely, when riding.

Please note that on this site, bicycles and motorcycles are both considered as being 2-Wheelers that ride similarly, even if one has an engine. So motorcycles are simply considered as being faster and heavier, except for a few exceptions: Downhill bicycles equipped with front and rear suspensions, for instance, can easily go faster than small motorcycles.

 

Author: 
Pierre Ethier, Eng.,   ("Pe-Air A-T-A" gets you closer to the French pronunciation),
Master Degree in motorcycle dynamics from Laval University,
Novel 2-Wheeler and 3-Wheeler concept designer for over 30 years,
 
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All information on this site is presented as is for the benefit of readers. Great efforts have been made to cover many aspects of 2-Wheeler steering and make texts and figures as clear as possible, in order to help ride and steer better. But It remains the sole and full responsibility of the reader to apply or test any recommendation, theory, suggestion…made. Thus, Pierre M. Ethier cannot be held responsible for any misunderstanding or any consequences resulting from using this information.
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