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[QUOTE="wannayz, post: 648510, member: 34378"]
I came across this post while searching for more answers on cornering because I'm having (traction) difficulties but I wanted to put my 2 cents in, being such an anal guy.
I first learned of "countersteer" as an "advanced technique" during a street riding class and it really slowed my learning trying to think about it when I should have just been  riding as I had ridden a bicycle for 400yrs.   
I THINK it's certainly possible to turn a bike by leaning your body over AND turning the bar like a car's steering wheel, BUT this would be a low speed and slow lumbering maneuver - pulling everything OVER the top of  bike's center of gravity.  Once the bike is at speed and inertia and gyroscopic effects want to keep the bike going in a straight line, the force it would take to lean the bike would likely be insurmountable.  So the only way to QUICKLY lean the bike would be to PUSH against the handlebars - in effect the "countersteer".   So as mentioned by many here, it's probably best for anyone having difficulty to just think in terms of leaning the bike quickly.  The countersteer come's  naturally.  Extreme eg.:  if you had to jump OFF the bike to the left, you'd naturally push the handlebar away to the right (force-counterforce).
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