Miguel DuHamel
"The counter steering thing...that's more obvious at the fast tracks, you're just really pushing hard to make the bike turn. I think 90 percent of it's in the handlebars. To initiate the turn...you really push hard to just drop the bike in and then obviously you shift your body on the inside of the corner and turn the bike. For me turning, obviously, you have to put your body into position. We get up and brake hard, and then you're in a good position where you counter steer and you push the bike into it. I think it's got to be done with your arms first because if you throw your body off, you've got less leverage. The legs, you put a lot of pressure on the footpegs. I think the best school for that was motocross. The more you road race, the more you find out that you're losing that. But the legs play a big part in road racing, weighing the footpegs as far as turning. Going into turning there's quite a bit of legwork being done in there, as you push backwards and then you counter steer and turn the bike. And then after that, you put all your weight on the inside footpeg. And then when you come out, of course, picking up the bike, you put both feet on the footpegs. Actually you use the outside footpeg to lift the bike coming out."