Interesting. A mystery explained. 'twas counter steering all the time.

[cowpoos]

this was posted else where on this forum....so its a copy paste job...

[Ixion]

Very interesting - and I'm certainly not bagging Mr Code.

But I don't think it is relevant to the original post I made - which related to why I was able to take left handers faster than rights.

For several reasons.

First, I've never crashed, left or right. And I can winch the Whale through walking pace figure 8's which is not too bad on something as hulky as a RT BMW.

And thirdly - since I figured out what was happening I have corrected it .Basically , simple enough, because of the angle of my hand on the right bar, caused by having to twist the wrist to keep the throttle open , I couldn't efficiently push on the bar to countersteer. So now I either deliberately take a second grip on the throttle grip to get my wrist at a "can push " angle; or pull on the left bar instead. The latter seems easier to do , and this has had the desired effect. I can get the same degree of turn in left handers as right (both of course still truely Nana'ish I make no claim to be a racer).

It all started because the BMW does not readily fall into corners, it has to be consciuously pushed through them Unlike most of my previous bikes where I could initiate the turn just by shoving my shoulder toward the apex and squinching forward a bit. That works fine on most bikes (including Li'l Ratty , so i don't think it's some arcane phobia I've acquired). Doesn't work on the BMW which is just too big heavy and stately to respond to such gentle hints.