Controlling drifts?

[Fladdem]

I was playing on my bike after work today, in the gravel section of the car park, there's a small jump and a mini hill-climb as well. Not bad for a very short loop, there's also a little wall about 2" foot tall that can be hopped up onto.

Anyway, I was doing the loop I have created and I want to be able to drift the bike round across the gravel to head down the back of the other raised gravel car-park, towards the hill. I was getting the bike to slip, but it would then just snatch back into traction and stand me up before I could point it where I wanted properly.

The bikes a TTR 250 with a Dunlop MX51 Geomax on the back and a michelin AC10 on the front. The rear is quite worn, in fact so is the front.

How can I keep the back without traction? One time I lost it and went the whole way around, facing back the way I came.
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Current:1991 Honda MT50 (Soon to be a H100/MTX/MT5 hybrid), 1976 Honda Cub C70, 2005 Honda Varadero 125, 1993 Yamaha TTR250 Open Enduro , 2010 Road Legal Stomp YX140, 1994 Honda CRM 250 MK III, 1999 Cagiva Mito 125, 1992 Honda CB400 Super Four, Stomp T4 230, 1984 Honda H100s, 2009 Sym XS125K
Past:2003 Aprilia RS125, 1982 Kawasaki GPZ550(FREE BIKE!)
I'm having more fun than a well-oiled midget.

[bladerunner]

if its not a spoof post....stand up and weight the outside peg to give the rear more traction as you counter steer.....or weight the inside peg if you want to kick it out more and turn the front in tighter....



.... never said it was easy tho!!!
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Current bikes...cbr929, KDX200's, Rd125lc mk2, RGV250's

[Fladdem]

[lihp]

don't apply any pressure to the bars.

Due to geometry the bike will go to the correct amount of counter steer for the slide naturally.

So once the back is sliding allow the bars to go wherever they want to go, and just hold the throttle steady, don't add or remove throttle, just hold it.

Oh, and practice, lots of it.

[mjn51]

it's all down to feel , and seat of the pants stuff, throw the rear end in with a little bit of throttle, and then control int on the throttle.
very hard to describe, just practise

[Fladdem]

Ok, thanks guys,

I don't want to go speedway style on it, but just if it kicks itself out when I'm not ready, learn how to control it.
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Current:1991 Honda MT50 (Soon to be a H100/MTX/MT5 hybrid), 1976 Honda Cub C70, 2005 Honda Varadero 125, 1993 Yamaha TTR250 Open Enduro , 2010 Road Legal Stomp YX140, 1994 Honda CRM 250 MK III, 1999 Cagiva Mito 125, 1992 Honda CB400 Super Four, Stomp T4 230, 1984 Honda H100s, 2009 Sym XS125K
Past:2003 Aprilia RS125, 1982 Kawasaki GPZ550(FREE BIKE!)
I'm having more fun than a well-oiled midget.