I rode a pushbike more than most in my teens. I guess I was relying on weight steering, or was somehow doing it inadvertently (albeitly very inneffectively) when I moved my body weight around on teh bikle. Its one thing to do it on a pushbike when the bike weighs 10kgs and you weigh 6-8 x that (as a teenybopper anyway

). but when you start moving at higher speeds, with heavier wheels creating a stronger gyroscopic effect, then there is no room for inneffective steering. Nobody ever told me about it or mentioned it. No Interweb then...
And I never had my own bike to get used to the new forces on, so when a mate offered his bike, I was off and thinking I could control it, like my pushbike - NOT.
And frankly there is STILL a lt of bullshit floating around about what teh mmost effective methid is. Some STILL say weighting pegs is how they steer, some still say that they push down on the foot pegs, some push DOWN on the bars (as opposed to forwards, like they shouldl).
So the idea that it is intuitive is definitely NOT a given. Yes, most kids can balance a bike, and that is effectively by countersteering, but not all kids recognise that that is how they are actually expected to STEER the pushbike.
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