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When you hear someone attributing a motorcycle’s good or bad manners to the elevation of its center of gravity (CoG), remember that it’s mostly steering geometry that makes a machine feel sluggish to steer or top heavy in turns. Certainly, a cruiser that’s built low to the ground will have a lower CoG. But some CoG cruisers with a low CoG have heavy steering. And there are tall dual sportbikes with the engine mass up in the stratosphere but flickable manners. My point is that the actual height of the CoG is only a concern when you are balancing at a stop or pushing the bike out of the garage. In motion, front-end geometry has a lot more to do with how the bike balances. And if your favorite machine has some strange cornering feedback, be aware that you can do some fine-tuning by setting up the suspension and, if necessary, changing tire diameters and profiles.