Is that an X9?  I can stop cold on mine for a few seconds with my feet up, but I'll have to work on that move!

Well, watch yourself, you don't want to aggrevate that leg.  I don't really see the point of it on a motoscoot if you can just put your feet down for balance anyway.  On a mountain bike it makes sense because you don't want to get out of the clips, or you may want to jump or bounce and need your feet on the pedals.  I found too that on really tight turns with the X9 the exhaust sticks out enough that you could bump it on things.  What I'm really waiting for is a video of someone doing a wheelie on a maxi-scoot!  ::

I attended a training day recently for Unity Support Riders and part of the course was slow riding training.

Although we didn't try anything like that I came away with some good skills for getting my speed right down and remaining stable at the same time.

JJ

Now there's no way I'd claim to be able to do what he's doing in the vid, but I'd cautiously suggest that it would "just" take a "few" weeks' practice to get the hang of that.

My theory is that the move he's doing here relies on the bike being almost off-balance (to the inside of the curve) so that he can take the longest time turning the wheel (i.e. he goes from being off-balance towards the inside of the curve, to being off-balance towards the outside of the curve when he's finished turning the wheel).

I've noticed that I seem to get a very short time of feet-up-standing-still-ness at the end of our small road, and that if there's no traffic coming then I can go from that (teeeeeeeny, very short) bit of stillness into a right turn without putting my foot down.

He's getting a much longer delay in the manoeuvre.  More hang time.  I'm sure plenty of that is down to him having more skill than me, but the other difference is that he deliberately puts his bike in a path that makes him off balance when it gets to the turn.

Just my thoughts....

That's what I do too, it's the only way to do it on an auto where you have no clutch control. I just use the rear brake though as I find the front upsets the balance a little.

I know JP but sometimes it's the basic stuff you have to be told about rather than the difficult bits.

JJ

I can get my bike down to almost walking speed but got use throtal and brakes to keep balenced, but i some times  still get the wobble left to right...more pratice i still cant do my U-Turns 100% perfect everry time

Don't use the back brake against the throttle for long folks - as pointed out in another thread it can induce huge wear and even transmission component melt-down.

Fine for a single manouvre, and as long as nothing gets too hot can be repeated at will.

A motorbike's wet clutch can take abuse all day long, this is not true of a Piaggio CVT...

Interesting - as the worst days on the A1 sees me filtering at slow speed for around a mile I'm afraid the brake/CVT must get a bit of a hammering. I'm not constantly revving hard against the brake though- I usually release the throttle and use the brake to slow, then if I know i'm going to be moving again soon I use the throttle/back brake to slow right down to near stopped before the gap opens up again and I shoot through. I guess the back brake is used a lot but only actually fighting the revs for a shorter amount of time.

I don't think theres really any other way of doing it on an auto, otherwise I'd be wobbling and paddling with my feet all the time, which is something I really don't want to be doing!

it is possible to do it this. I do it on the street when i reach to a red  traffic signal, but for a few seconds. it is enough time to change direction of movements.