Why when you are riding a bicycle do you need to first turn/lean right to make make a left turn, and vice versa?

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Why when you are riding a bicycle do you need to first turn/lean right to make make a left turn, and vice versa?

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I haven’t ridden a bike in a while, but I used to quite a bit in university, and I can’t say I recall ever *needing* to lean the opposite direction before going into a turn. It might have happened occasionally as a byproduct of some other motion I was doing on the bike, but there have been many more times where I just leaned in the direction of the turn alone.

Could you elaborate on why you think this is necessary?