They most definately are.. That's why they're fun!

 

good thread im going to work on these tomarrow I cant wait this should be sticky BTW

 

Yeah no kidding.. The info here is pretty good if you don't kno where to start.

 

No. Staggard you’re really holding yourself onto the bike making, you real stiff, and you want to be loose. I also find it harder to feather the footbrake when in staggered, so yeah ss much easier. The key is body language once you can turn it in correctly and momentum established by gassing it ( blurping or steady holding). Your not going to do 2+ circles standing stiff while feathering the HB and gassing it.. Where your body is all depends on where the bike is at, whether it's high and turning tight, in the sweet spot, or down and away from you and leaned over a lot. It's really not teachable; you kind of un willingly start moving your body one day compensating for what the bike is doing. You may go weeks w/ little or no progression but just keep doing what your doing w/ trial and error, don't get frustrated and one day it will just click.

 

subscribing

 

Huh?

 

subscribing to thread so i dotn loose it. all i have to do is search my name to find it later.

 

Ahhhhhh! I learn something new everyday..

 

or if you just click on USER_CP on the top menu up there, it will show all the threads that you are subscribed to that someone has recently posted in

 

try left foot on seat circles... i like em alot better than staggard's

 

yeah...but i mean over time. the way the weather is gonna get here in month im not gonna be riding regularly till like late march. ill ride jsut to barely keep the stuff that i can do now.

 

snowboarding... i went last weekend

 

i hate the cold. we only go moto-sledding...thats all that winter is good for.

 

i wanna see some footage mikee

 

SS, to peg, to bar, to tank and sit downs are the only circles I'll practice. I hate staggard or ft on seat even going in a strait line.. Ha Ha.

 

Sh*t, so do I!!! That won't happen anytime soon. No program to upload or edit footage anymore. Well actually if we go to Vegas next weekend we'll probably get some footage but won't have any uploaded clips for the forums. Just bring your *** down here and you can see em all you want.

 

Here's some more that I posted in another thread today to add here..

I can think of 3 different body positions, lean angles, and speed when going into and while already turning circles.

1 - High and slow idle, and small lean. If your going in slow and the bike is high, or your circle tightens up, and is slow, and you need to be up close to the bike, then after the 1/4 turn in that position, I push the bike down and away from my body and gas it through the next 1/4 or 1/2 turn.

2 - Medium hight, medium speed, medium lean. This is what I call the circle sweet spot. The hard thing is keeping it there 1/4 turn at a time, apply equal amount of gas/break, and be smooth on the throttle and HB to keep it there.

3 - Nose is low, leaned over a lot, and moving fast. If you go in hot, or brake too much and the nose falls you need to gas, gas, gas! To bring it back to the sweet spot but if you gas too much, the bike will come back up high and tight and with that speed guess what... HIGHSIDE!! ha ha.

Basically these are the 3 different areas where you can be at while going into or already in the circle and how to correct yourself when falling out or turning tight, and trying to get back to the sweet spot where they'll be smooth. Hope this helps more!!

 

cool stuff thanks for sharing your learning

 

mikee thats some real good explaining... thanks for taking the time to share all your findings... i find i am just working out all those 3 things.. i tend to go round once gas it a bit to much then have to lean into the bike to keep in the circle... or going in at the sweet spot dropping down after 1 turn gassing again but puttin too much brake and stalling.... it feels like i really know what to do but i always curse myself as i stall again and again... then i will get a lucky three circles just off gassing it up from low???

keep on trying keep on turning... please post up your vid progress for us brits cheers

 

Gas more rapidly before it drops too low and don't mash the brake if you can help it, cuz I kno in some cases you have to. Shouldn't have to get on the brake again much until you get back up to the sweet spot to slow dn your momentum a bit so you don't come out and highside.

I have no vid of circles from day 1 til now, no one ever brought the camera, nor did anyone show up to ride much when I was practicing them. Guess I can't b*tch cuz I don't have my own camera! Pretty much had to learn them on my own w/ no critiquing, vid, or anyone there who knew how to do them, no wonder it took me so long. ha ha