Okay i figured i now feel ready to take on circles, i just fancied a bit more stress and frustration in my life, Oh and a whole bunch of crashes. Anyway all went well very quickly and i was shocked as to how quick they were to pick up to a point that is. Now as long as i have somewhere the size of the M25 i am okay, i joke they are not that bad, I shout out to Lee and Glyn and Chris and anyone i have forgotten who has circles on lockdown, help me boys, how do i tighten these suckers up .

 

They're just something that suck when learning, but when you can do them you kick yourself thinking "why did that take so long?".

I just learnt regular foot in seat, working on combos now, so the fun ebgins again...

As for tightening them up, just lean and stay on the gas. Getting on top of the bike helps too.

 

Watchtower?


I am also learning them, i can go tight.

Go mega slow, and take the bike past bp. thats what was helping me the most.

Also what position are you doing? Staggered, foot in bar/seat?

 

i am doing them ss on the hb, i run them in slow on the idle, about 3,500rpm,i hardly use the throttle, front is very high and past bp and entry speed is slow, something wrong somewhere though

 

What's going wrong? You dropping out, stalling out, highsiding?

Need more info to give advice.

 

My advice is give up now, cos circles are ****** annoying

 

i dont stall out much as i use the clutch also, mostly i get highsided or the bike comes back to the rail with me stood inside it, if i keep them open this is no problem but soon as i try to go real tight it goes **** up, should i use more or less idle, more or less gas, stand tall or legs bent etc, etc

 

s/s i ve been trying to get these too bending the knees and pulling the bike close to you gives u more height....

 

i use 3k rpm's, just ride at idel then turn in first and blip the throttle as the bike whips arround move your body to the out side of the circle then blip it again... 4 blips make a circle. i can get them going real tight and real fast that way..... works for me, might work for you

 

If you're coming out of the circle on BOTH sides then it's probably a case of more practice required, and try be smoother and more subtle with ur controls. They're feeeeeeeeeeeeeeerkin hard, but if u can turn them in, u'll get there.

I have mine @ just under 3k.

- I think if u highside out of the circle then u braked too hard. If u low side then it was too much throttle (I think) Although I think it depends on some other factors too - there's lots going on!!!

 

Hay many thanks for the tips, i need to ride with some of you guys i think as trying them on my own means no one spots my mistakes and i just keep repeating them again and again, i turn it in on the brake initiallywithout any gas, is that correct? cheers for your help guys

 

I rode all day yesterday and got six circles in a row best ever .Just hope next time i go out can get straight back into em the only thing that seems to work for me is lots of practice

 

:YEAH Nice one dude, chuffed for you, you must be dizzy after six,how you keeping mate

 

ye very dizzy keeping well you?

 

:YEAH yeh good dude, circles are keeping me entertained, i have been at them for a couple of weeks now and they are very addictive, i like um even though they are frustrating the hell out of me, its all good though

 

only just realised who you are again yorkie throws me every time. nice to hear you are getting them o's and well done big mark. I am still no where near getting them sorted start to really have a go when get new cage then will be able bin it alot. ha ha. Feels like arrggh when you dip in and gas it got one o in seat stander the other night off the clutch and with massive lean angle then just bottled it and gassed out of the circle. man they are scary to do them fast anyone who doing them like that big respect i will be there soon ish hopefully maybe 6 months

 

Hi there Toby, hope all is going well, havent seen you for a while, you still riding hard mate?

 

yeah long time man. Yeah trying to man got a new front end coming and going to start on them long endos to try and give ghostie a re match seing as he kicked my *** up smoke recently in stoppie comp. got some very long coasters on the open recently like 600ft in secong gear they are amazing man love them but bit dodge doing them undertaking cars on the terra ferma. got some really whipped up drifts recent and working really hard on circs but they are so so so hard and just keep jumping out of them as going in hot all the time. but yeah man riding has been fun have to meet up when you venture down south next

 

Yorkie's been tryin for three afternoons and he's a broken man

bwahahahahahahaha!

 

Just to inform you all, I can do NTH circles now.

Carry on.

Yorkie: They're such a ****** to get, one day you just seem to click with them. I clicked with them for one day a while back and then the next week lost it. That pissed me off so bad I was ready to just give up with them, keep trying and you'll get it eventually.

Not all of us are like Ed and Joe and seem to learn them in a week.