“Circles and other slow wheelies are the hardest tricks to learn. These are alot about trusting your tires and getting into a groove. Once you get into a groove, it’s all brake, throttle control and some body english
“There are three different ways to do circles, foot in the bar, passenger peg and foot on the rear seat. I use the second method, with my left foot on the passenger peg. I haven’t done too much with my foot on the bar, but I think there is an advantage because you’ve got more leverage on the back of the bike. You can use your body weight more to control the height of the tire.
“To initiate a circle I clutch it up with my feet already in position, bringing it up like a 12, using the rear brake. For circles (and no handers too) I’ll turn the idle up to 3500 rpm, so I don’t really have to worry about the gas. But with the idle up that high, and your bike so high, if you don’t use the rear brake you’ll loop out.
“Once you get the bike up there, all you’re doing is using body weight and the rear brake to control the wheelie. You initiate the turn by bending the inside knee and shifting body weight into the wheelie. You want to keep looking into the wheelie, because you go where you look. You keep it going by blipping the throttle and tapping the brake. The gas makes it run wide and the brake tightens the circle up—the same concepts as with cornering on a roadracing track.”
you have to have MAD clutch slippage....if not, then you will stall or just spin too fast to control the bike/hang on.
i like to come in really slow and then as it turns it, i try to keep it nice and smooth (kinda hard, sometimes i fall in becasue i am going too slow) using the clutch/gas/brake.
same basic idea as any other cirlce, just diff body pos. experiment with your body, i found i like to scootch up toward the gas tank when doing them, when i sit all the way back agains the rear seat, they go around in a downward spiral and i can't really control them-although for one hadners that is what i have to do.....
remember, much more clutch action (unless you are really smooth like JB) because you have less body leverage to move around on the bike....
and no it doesnt matter if you lean in or sit on top---i find that if i sit on top of the bike that it wants to highside reall
