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Part of the confusion over motorcycle balancing and steering is that different machines handle differently and give different feedback to the rider. It’s not easy to differentiate between what the bike is doing and what the rider is doing. Ideally, if the rider maintains a slight press on the low grip, the bike will continue around a turn at the same lean angle. If the rider eases pressure on the grip, the motorcycle should roll itself upright and settle into a straight-ahead path. This would be called neutral steering, although it really isn’t neutral at all. And not all motorcycles have neutral steering.

Consider a motorcycle with a tendency to fall into turns. With such a machine, you can initiate a right turn by pressing on the right grip; but once the bike starts to lean, it just wants to keep on rolling over farther and farther. So you need to counteract the motorcycle’s self-induced roll by maintaining a pull on the low grip to keep the bike from leaning over any farther than you need for the turn. It might seem that you are steering the front wheel toward the curve and that your steering input is what is causing the motorcycle to turn. What you are actually doing is limiting the bike’s own characteristic of falling into turns.

So if you encounter a rider who is convinced he or she consistently steers the front wheel toward the turn, it’s most likely a matter of a bike that falls into corners. Generally, motorcycles that fall into turns are earlier designs with narrow front tire profiles and short steering trail.