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Personally at the moment I use a joystick in combination with my F430 foot pedals

I have a Saitek x52 joystick, and some G25 pedals. I might give them a bash see how it goes.

[Mallory Park 78 V1.1_NDS]

Welcome aboard mate! 

Speaking personally, if I was you as a newcomer to GPBikes I would probably start with a simply track layout like "Mallory Park 78 V1.1_NDS", probably on a Moto 3 bike(nothing too powerful to start with). Mallory Park is a simple layout that will give you more chance of making a lap without falling off and learn you how to control the bike before going onto more complex circuits and more powerful bikes.
But stick with the practice; I recommend hourly sessions then leave it for a while and then do another hourly session and within a week you'll really start to feel all the controls coming to you automatically; that is when it all starts to become a very fulfilling experience. 
Start by riding slow to make sure you make the lap without falling and getting yourself used to making all the required control movements during the process, and then when you gain confidence in your control start speeding up your pace gradually. For sure your going to crash many times - that's all part of the learning process, but then after a while you'll find everything starts to drop into place and you don't have to think about what your fingers are doing to control the bike, it all becomes automatic; this will probably take a weeks regular hourly practice sessions to get to that stage, but believe me it's well worth it. 

I'd also recommend you to join an online server session so you can ride with other riders and gain experience and helpful advice directly. Just tell the other riders via the online GPB chat facility that your new and they will help you all they can mate. 

Hope to see you on track soon mate! 

Hawk.

Heh, i've raced bikes at mallory so maybe that will help

Does setup make much of a difference? I found the handling of the bikes vary quite a lot. I think the demo bike was the hardest one to ride .

I've been practicing on the road bikes for now, the motoGP bike STK bikes are quite powerful. At the moment I'm using an Xbox controller with 25 direct lean and auto lean enabled.  I tried other setting combinations but this one actually enabled me to corner, rather than crashing.

I actually managed 3 clean laps today, still so easy to fall off though.

Thanks for the tips.

Luke

Hi, I got this game after seeing it on Sim UK's channel. Its great, but oh so difficult!

Where's the best place to start? I've downloaded a few bikes and tracks but really struggling to get a clean lap (I've managed 1 lap without falling off )