Originally Posted by chakraist

Make sure the balls of your feet are on the pegs, twist your body round about 20-30 degrees or so as this pushes your knee out and forces you to look where you're going, drop your elbow and shoulder down and stick one bum cheek off the side of the bike. Push on your opposite foot and build up some tyre temperature by lapping a roundabout a few times; then accelerate more and more (don't go round more than about 4 or 5 times in a row, it gets quite dizzy and very tiring). Eventually you'll get it down

Your head should be about where your mirror is but looking round the corner, you'll find you have to look straight upwards as if you'd be looking at the ceiling if you were sat down.