Originally Posted by slowandsteady
Um yes I did. And if you cannot master clipless I feel sorry for you. Like I said, introducing yet another thing to learn into the mix of traffic and clipless is just plain stupid and potentially dangerous when the OP falls over in his clipless doing a trackstand for the first time in traffic. Maybe he can also do some bunnyhops one handed while popping a wheelie with one eye closed at the next red light.
You don't learn to trackstand in traffic. I guess Darwin would take over from there.
The problem is that the people who can't trackstand really don't make a commitment to learn it. If you learn a bit, but only practice on training rides, you're not going to learn it. You'll put a foot down at four lights in an hour and pretty much give up.
I learned it really well in just two days. It was raining and I needed to recover anyway. So I rode to a parking garage (weekend) and learned in there. I'd work on it for 10 minutes, then do some fun laps around the corners to loosen up, then get back to learning again. Ever since that weekend, I've been able to freewheel trackstand all day long, standing, seated, one handed, whatever. That was my first season riding, back in 1991.