you ever get the feeling that a lot of this is difficult only because we make it more difficult by trying to think too much about it? I rode bicycles all my childhood, and no one ever once mentioned countersteering. not once, not until I started reading about motorcycle riding did I ever hear the word. but I’ll bet you dollars to dingleberries that I countersteered all the time while riding my bike, especially down long hills where I had to turn at the bottom. did I conciously know I was countersteering? did I even know that I was doing what is called countersteering rather than turning like I would in a car? no, it came naturally and without conscious thought. it’s when someone tries to tell you “you need to do this, this, and this at this time” that you’d screw it up, even though that was exactly what you’d been doing all the time. funny thing, the mind