Obviously a new rider that doesn't know how to steer (countersteer) a bike. He got target fixation on the guardrail and ran into it! This is just an extension from another recent thread about countersteering.
Target fixation is looking at something, fixing on it and that is where you are going to go. To avoid it, keep you eyes moving. If you see a rock in the road or a guardrail on the side of a road, do not lock your eyes on it. Look for a way around it and you will be fine. If you find you've been locked onto something and you're headed for it, then countersteer to turn away from it. Just think "Push" and you'll probably miss it.
For those who don't know about countersteering, most novices and a lot of old timers, it is how you actually steer a motorcycle. Do not listen to any arguments to the contrary, they're wrong!! Simple as that! If you're a riding a single track vehicle over about 20 MPH, you steer it by countersteering, you are pushing the handle bar on the side you want to turn to. Yes, pushing. If you turn left, you have pushed the left bar forward. You can argue about all these other things you think you do, shifting weight, weighting footpegs, pushing the right bar, but in doing all that other stuff, you are still pushing the left bar forward to turn left.
This is the problem the guy on the Kwacker. He was trying do the the wrong stuff instead, that he thought would turn the bike, but doesn't. you can see him desparately trying to turn more to the left, but it doesn't go.
They do teach the fundamentals of countersteering in the beginning motorcycle MSF courses, but they don't really have enough room in the riding area to try it. So no practice, no remembering.
They've been teaching it for 30 years in road racing schools, which is where I learned about it. I had been riding and racing for 20 years and never heard of it or really thought much about how a motorcycle actually steers. And I could probably fixate on something and nail it! Like a 5' deep hole off to the side of the track! Guarantee when you practice and get it into your conscious mind, you will be a much safer rider!
Kieth Code was the guy who really started getting it out to the hoi polloi when he started his racing schools in about 1980. I want to one at Riverside in '81 and learned a lot! Since then all l the racing schools have taught it too. MSF didn't get the message until maybe 10 years ago.
For those who don't think they use it at the rest who've never heard of it, fink yurself a lightly traveled road preferably with a few curves in it and go down it and practice just weaving back and forth pushing the bar in the direction you want to go. You'll notice tat when you want to stop turning and straighten up, you'll be pushing the bar from the opposite side, steering into the turn! Just keep pushing and going back weaving down the road. As you get into tighter turns, you will learn how much more quickly you can enter them with just a bit more of a nudge on the bars and the same if you want to go through some esses how quickly you can bank from side to side. Practice this until you just think "Push" when you want to turn. It can give you're hand the signal to do it right, quickly. Then you don't run into things you thought were so purty there in the middle of the road, or maybe even off to the side.
The reason this works in when you push the left bar, it turn right for a millisecond and the bike starts to fall to the left, initiating the turn. You then balance the bike with pressures on the bar. If the bike lens left farther than you want in a little right bar pressure will straighten it up, if you need a little more bank and turn, a nudge of left bar will get you there. To straighten up, again, a little right bar pressure will straighten the bike up.
Since you guys have been doing this subconsciously for years, it shouldn't take much effert to move it to your conscious mind! Without that little "Push" in my mind a couple of months ago, I probably would be a hood ornament on some damn pickup!
there's another video on Utube of a guy going up the Snake on Mulholland on 250 or so scooter and runs into the guardrail much the same as this guy. target fixation.
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