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Originally posted by NBs996
Counter steering is my conclusion as to why kids fall off push bikes when starting out. They assume they've got to turn the bars in the direction they want to go, and it takes a while for the mind to work out otherwise.
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Absolutely right...interestingly (well, sort of) it was the Wright brothers who first discovered and documented counter steering (they owned a bicycle shop before they started messing about with planes). Definitely a smart couple of geezers.