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has the longest sweeping bends to lean the bike over? And/Or most suitable to a novice?

:D

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Snetterton

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That was my thought, Ive never been there but have looked at plans of most of the tracks. Donny or Silverstone were my other thoughts.

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Never done those 2, but Silverstone is another one I'd do..

He's my video of one session that was cut short by some fool throwing it down the road, not me I hasten to add.

I've done 3 novice track days at Snetterton with MSV track days, and on the whole pretty well controlled, with groups sorted in ability. So novices with novices, and if you're too fast for the novice group you get moved up.

They do sessions at most tracks

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Yeah, none of those corners look too tight after the straights

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Plenty of run off if you do get it wrong :-)

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If you are in Oxford Rockingham and Silverstone are nearer. I liked the Rockingham national circuit on an SV because it is mostly corners and includes the longest left hander I know.

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Ive been to SStone nver been to Rockingham though. 9 rights and less lefts. looks guite good.thx

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M25
You can do it as a left hand or right handed bend.

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I thought Pembury was supposed to have the longest left hander in the UK, as for right handers Cadwell is well up there. From tipping in at Park you've got a brief acceleration out, a roll and further tip into Chris curve, then a long period of balance/acceleration before braking into the Gooseneck, that's nearly 270 degrees worth all on the right hand side of the tyre.

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To answer the second part of your question, Lydden isn't a bad place to start as a Novice, plus it's got a long right hander. Fairly short circuit so easy to learn the basics, none of the turn in's are stupidly fast so if you make a mistake there's opportunity to put it right before you run off the track (providing you don't panic) and most of the bends are actually a whole lot faster than they look, which stops you getting bored if you're a fast learner. And it's still relatively cheap.......

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As a complete novice I did Snetterton first on a BMW day "better rider day" generally it has good open views, so you know what is coming up, but it is a long track. So you won't get as many 'goes' at the corners you like over the session. I've been to Cadwell a couple of times since, and to me, the track is more involved, feels like a wide country road and was more fun.

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Rockingham is a good one to start, go for the national not International, the former is the same as the latter but without the pointless bit of oval tacked on. None of it is really fast, but it's wide and grippy, and as said it has a couple of good left handers. Silverstone is a great track but much faster, try to book one of their days instead of a track day company if you can. Cadwell/Oulton are a lot of fun but quite technical, blind corners etc. There's Mallory, surely that has the longest bend in the world, it's a bit of a dull track otherwise though TBH.

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Depends on how you ride it, IMO. Holding onto the bigger bikes around Gerard's and then outbraking 4 or 5 into Edwina's is rather fun. And as it is so short, you get plenty of opportunities to improve each section.
I have done enough days there to know exactly which gear to be in at every point, which allows my little brain to concentrate on other things. :D

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Ive now done 2 track days at Snet and what a great track, Short(ish) circuit with loads of corners. Silverstone next month.