Leaning...? Help a new rider out!

You guys can actually turn the handlebars in the direction of the curve you want to create at speeds of even 30 miles an hour(??)

I thought counter-steering was something you used pretty much as soon as you let the clutch out all the way going maybe 12 miles an hour or so.
The only time I turn the handlebars the way I want the bike to go is when I'm going so slow I have the clutch partially pulled into the friction zone and I am dragging the back brake a bit.

(Or when I've stopped the bike, put my feet down, put it in Neutral, and am duck-walking it into a parking space or parallel parking along the curb.)
I have never looked at my speedometer while doing this type of tight parking lot maneuvering , but I would estimate that my speed is something like jogging speed-- maybe 6-10 miles an hour?

One way to think of counter steering
is to imagine .... (wait, I need a picture because it will be worth 1000 words)

Okay, I can't find any picture on the Internet so later I'll take a couple of my own but what I want to suggest is a new rider or somebody who wants to consciously use counter steering can think of two triangles hugging the frame of the motorcycle:

one triangle extending from the back of the fuel tank to the right handlebar grip, along handlebar itself back to the center directly above the forks, and then back underneath the fuel tank along the bikes frame.


The other triangle extending from the back of the fuel tank to the left handlebar grips, and the handlebar itself forms the other side of the triangle, up to the center point above the forks and then the triangle goes straight through the centerline of the fuel tank.

Once you envision these two triangles,

imagine that each one has a certain amount of surface area --so many square inches or square centimeters.
So if you were to push one side of the handlebars forward, you are increasing the size of that triangle, giving it more surface area, and you are shrinking the other triangle similarly.

Then think of the newly-expanded triangular space as a "big opening" that you should lean over as if you were going to "fall into" that new hole you just created.

The combination of pushing forward
(imagining that you're creating a larger void or space on one side of the bike than the other)
and then you physically leaning that way as if you were about to fall into that "hole" is what causes your turn.

Then, the rider IMAGINES , or VISUALIZES,

Pushing one side of the handle bar forward
to make that side's triangle larger.

(We know that the handlebar will not actually turn, noticeably, and it will never look like this during countersteering,
But that's what the person should think about trying to make it do as they push.)




Now that the red triangle on the left side of the bike frame is the bigger space,
(bigger than the blue triangle)
the rider leans over, head and shoulders,
as if paused to fall into that hole.

Then the left lean and left turn starts.