Originally Posted by blickblocks
Wah??? Is it really that difficult? I do the pedal-very-slowly pseudo trackstand on my bikes all the time, I can't imagine that doing it for real fixed would be much different.
that is quite different from a trackstand. You are steering the bike to balance with a trackstand the steering stays constant and you move the bike forward and back with the pedals which results in the side to side movement that balances you. You can do a trackstand on a freewheeled bike too provided you are pointing uphill.