In 2002, I started a thread questioning MSF's motive for promoting countersteering at the Cycle World forums. In the thread, I suggested MSF's motive for promoting countersteering was to make us believe that our lack of skills for riding motorcycle proficiently, not that motorcycles as vehicles are inherently overtly dangerous, is the main reason for motorcycle accidents. Of course the thread was too controversial and the moderator at the CW forums deleted it.

Mr. Keith Code is well known for promoting countersteering too, and he's credited with popularizing the concept among the general public starting in 1970's. I will not going into speculating his possible ties with Japanese motorcycle manufacturers or MSF since I don't have any evidence; however, his involvement with popularizing the concept of countersteering in 1970s interests me. Why 1970s?

In 2002, I came across an article about Honda being involved in a research on countersteering in 1960/70s.

Then around March, 2003, I discovered something even I found incredible. It was in John Lee's ZEN OF MOTORCYCLE RIDING:

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The scientific "theory" of countersteering was reconfirmed as scientific fact by Dr. Hugh H. Hurt of the University of Southern California Traffic Safety Center, and a group of scientists from Honda Motor Company. They presented their findings at the Second International Congress on Automotive Safety held in San Francisco in 1973.

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Do you recognize the name of the researcher? Yes, it is the same Mr. Hurt of the Hurt Study. Incidentally the year in which MSF was established was 1973.

Mr. Hurt's close association with Honda continues to this day.

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Following release of that report, Hurt and Thom founded the Head Protection Research Laboratory, now based in Paramount, California, which is one of the premier helmet-testing labs in the world. And they've continued to be involved in research on wide-ranging topics including rider braking performance, motorcycle conspicuity, car driver inattention and helmet retention system design.
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Then, four years ago, Honda came to us and said they were selling a lot of motorcycles in Thailand, and no one was doing any safety (research) work there. So they came to us and offered to sponsor a project in which we would be involved as a research partner with Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. That study has just been completed, and the report will be available in the near future.
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Truth is stranger than�our wildest imagination.

Don't you agree?