track standing...
03-02-12, 08:01 PM
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Man, I've tried and tried to do a real track stand, and I can get several seconds, but that's all. I even made a fixed gear conversion and I still just can't get it. I can ride no hands all day, but this track stand mess eludes me. I keep hoping some day I'll just "get it" but it hasn't happened yet.
I tend to make too sudden a correction and just flailing about. Perhaps there is no hope, but every summer for the past few years it's been an unarchived goal.
Maybe I need a coach.
I tend to make too sudden a correction and just flailing about. Perhaps there is no hope, but every summer for the past few years it's been an unarchived goal.
Maybe I need a coach.
03-02-12, 08:03 PM
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Yes, read my post on moving your weight back. It doesn't have to be a lot, so although it may not look as "still" as an uphill, it's pretty subtle. The steeper the downhill the less subtle it is.
03-02-12, 08:10 PM
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The key to track standing is the key to riding - being able to steer while moving.
You can ride a bike with very small wheels (no giro effect), very short wheelbase, very long, etc but if you lock the fork most normal riders can't ride it (forget about the guys that can bounce around all day on a bike without pedaling).
So the idea with a road track stand is that you roll backwards slightly, enabling you to steer slightly. Then you roll forward. Then backward.
To make things really seem stationary, you start to move your body instead of the rolling bit. So you move your body a bit.
With practice it'll become second nature. With pointed practice ("coach"), I see about 1 out of every 6-8 riders do a track stand after practicing for 15 minutes. This is with riders who are so new they basically dusted off their bikes to do the clinic.
You can ride a bike with very small wheels (no giro effect), very short wheelbase, very long, etc but if you lock the fork most normal riders can't ride it (forget about the guys that can bounce around all day on a bike without pedaling).
So the idea with a road track stand is that you roll backwards slightly, enabling you to steer slightly. Then you roll forward. Then backward.
To make things really seem stationary, you start to move your body instead of the rolling bit. So you move your body a bit.
With practice it'll become second nature. With pointed practice ("coach"), I see about 1 out of every 6-8 riders do a track stand after practicing for 15 minutes. This is with riders who are so new they basically dusted off their bikes to do the clinic.
03-02-12, 09:07 PM
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If you weren't so many states away I'd pay you to see what you could do with teaching me.
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