GTR1400MAN wrote:
Here's an experiment for you. Get hold of an 'illegal' e-bike with a lockable throttle (or a real motorcycle with cruise control) then try the same thing. The extra weight, applied power and natural self centering of the cycle's geometry won't allow enough destabilisation unless you push the bars with your hands.
KNMV instructor, using the 'choke' to keep the drive on.
Now get the trainees trying it?
Note, just for extra fun - riding over an obstruction! And is that daylight under the wheel?
Edit:
Looking for the instructor pic, found this:
This was an instructor for the KNMV - the Royal Dutch Motorcycle Club - demonstrating how stable a bike is, leading to a demo of counter-steering (using a luggage strap around one grip - pulled by the rider who has both hands off the bars*) as the only way to accurately steer a bike. [Photo 1995]
* Three instructors demo'ing this, one after the other. The third had tied the strap slightly 'above' centreline of the throttle grip, so when he pulled he also jerked the throttle open (previously they had the choke open to keep the bike rolling under drive rather than slowing).
Whoops.
The bike lurched ahead, now heading left as he'd pulled the right bar back.
. . . Lurched ahead, that is, to a soft earth bank about 12-15 feet high, above which there was a manouvering area where the audience were all stood.
Instructor stood up, looked up the bank, gave it some beans and Moto-X'd the Pan up the bank, parking on the tarmac area, to a round of applause
He then took the mic. and said that without his training he would have made all the wrong actions and wouldn't have got out of trouble.
That's be survival reactions, then: narrowed vision, tensing, closed throttle, grabbed brakes etc. - or, instead, overcoming them.