What is countersteering?

1. When you push gently on the right handlebar to make a left turn.
2. When you apply the same pressure to both sides of the handlebar to make a left turn.
3. When you push gently on the left handlebar to make a left turn. ✓
4. When you steer gently into oncoming traffic.

Answer: C. When you push gently on the left handlebar to make a left turn.

Countersteering means gently pushing the left handlebar to make a left turn.

Why this is the answer

The handbook explains that above about 10 km/h a motorcycle must lean to turn, and you create that lean by countersteering. For a left turn, you push gently on the left handlebar; the bike leans left and goes left. The same passage notes this can feel like the opposite of what you expect, but the push starts the lean that takes you through the curve.

Why the other answers are wrong

• A. When you push gently on the right handlebar to make a left turn. — Pushing the right handlebar is the countersteering input for a right turn; the handbook says push right, lean right, go right.
• B. When you apply the same pressure to both sides of the handlebar to make a left turn. — Equal pressure on both handlebars does not produce the left lean needed for a left turn, according to the passage.
• D. When you steer gently into oncoming traffic. — Steering into oncoming traffic is not countersteering and is not presented in the handbook as a way to turn.

Remember it

Remember the pattern: push left, lean left, go left.