I wasn't entirely happy with the practice session yesterday, the circles I am riding are too wide. Fired up some youtube last night and watch quite a few on low speed cornering. What worked for me is following the technique of "look where you want to go" and being a bit ambitious about it. Sure enough, the bike leans more when you are focused on your target, looking through the corner rather than in front of you. It's almost like magic the amount of metres you can cut out of a turning circle. Getting a little over-ambitious I tried a few figure eights but I might concentrate on just clockwise and anti-clockwise until I work out where the centres of the figure eights should be. The couple I did were a bit wobbly - the grass down there is a little soft so I was wary about slipping over and got the feeling it was time to take a break. This brought me to something that happened recently while teaching my youngest how to drive. She was at hour 4 or so and doing OK but clearly still very nervous and probably listening to me too much rather than making all the decisions herself. Anyway, she was turning right at an intersection and nearly messed it up completely, but self corrected and drove straight home very upset. I was impressed - she had finally made the leap from being instructed to driving which in my mind was a great move forward. She saw it rather differently - it was a mistake and shouldn't happen. Like a lot of professions, in IT you have to learn something new every few years and over the (ahem) decades I've been doing that, I found a curve that described pretty much how I feel about learning something new. There is a "perceived" level of proficiency, and an "actual" level. The crude drawing was from me explaining to my daughter how it works. At first, your perceived and actual levels are the same, then as you gain confidence, the perceived level rapidly overtakes your actual level of knowledge or skill. Then, something happens (an accident, a problem you can't work out) and your perceived level drops through the floor. At that point, she was there. I think it's almost necessary to go through the floor on your perceived skill level so you can reset your brain/muscle memory and begin learning for real. Anyway, she made it handily through the trough. Me? I'm still on that upwards curve of false skill level perception. I am not looking forward to the trough but I know it's coming and perhaps even necessary.