Staying with the "biking is like skiiing" thread, I think you will find that just as in skiing counterbalance plays a key role in high angle turns on the bike. You can only lean in so far and hold the line, but if you lean the bike in while keeping your weight to the outside of the turn, you can substantially and safely tighten the line.
Not true. In fact, for true high level, deep, high cornering on a bike, the exact opposite is true. If you are counter balancing in turns, it's because you haven't learned to trust how wheels really work. Gyroscopics play a role in biking that doesn't exist in skiing. Just as on a racing motor cycle, instead of 'counter balancing' agains the turn, lean (shoulders, hips, head, hands..all of it) along the same axis as you tip your bike into a corner, go over much farther than you think you can handle, the moment you feel you are going to fall over-pedal (a half pedal in a reasonably high gear will do...on a motor cycle, you'd give it some throttle at this point)-you'll be amazed how quickly you regain balance and get righted. It takes some practice, some faith and confidence, but you'll corner faster and deeper than you ever though possible. That's the result of working with the momentum of the wheels and not against them (again, think about how a gyroscope works). Adding torque and pedal power will keep you balanced. Trust me (or at least trust Mark Weir, the king of cornering, who taught me this).
Also, bush's point on turning the bars and pointing the wheels (and drifting the tires) is well-stated, in more technical terrain, or tight terrain at any kind of speed, mere tipping won't be enough, there's a reason headsets's spin 360 degrees.
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