How long does it take to learn to track stand?

Track standing is a skill I have always wanted to learn. It is one I thought would take a while but I am surprised about how quickly it came to me.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:51 - Practice
03:02 - Track Standing

[cyclingunboxed]

How long did it take you to learn to track stand? I would love to know too see if my learning time matches up with others!

[vernfrier]

Wow, I am inspired. I've been trying on and off for over 10 years. I thought I'd never do it. Now thanks to you, I have a plan, and I have hope.

[chickenricelaksa]

You forgot to mention the racing flip flops are essential.

[nickrobinson]

Thank you for your honest approach, and your motivation. Great video!

[thewattlife]

Nice vid man- a little stuck between the spokes for you. But you ideally want your tyre turned the other way relative to your front foot. This is easier for balance and also, when you are clipped in you can swing your wheel around and swap sides (and feet if needed) without worrying about toe/tyre clearance

[arihunta]

Thanks, this is precisely the question that's been on my mind. I've watched a bunch of videos, and then tried one day of practice, and got nowhere. Wasn't sure if it was something I was supposed to pick up in a day, or if I had made any progress at all...this offers some much-needed perspective.

Time to practice some more tomorrow. 💪🏻

[fede]

Well done, I never try to stay on for so long, should practice more!

[views]

I started off on a fixed gear bike so it took me possibly just a little under an hour to transfer the skill on a road bike.

Just a note to smaller rides learning, if you've got toe overlap on your bike, its best to turn your wheels to where your front foot is at just to lessen touching the wheels in to your toe causing you to lose balance.

Also congrats on learning it!

[Christophe_L]

I don't mean to sound like a brag but learning this took me literally 1 minute. I had tried it a bunch of times on flat before, and going 'this is useless', but then all it took was finding the perfect incline. I told my mates jokingly 'look what i learned on the internet' and then did a trackstand for the first time for like 20 seconds. Needless to say the most impressed out of the bunch was me, as I had never done one. But I did it first try just learning the theory on the internet and finding that perfect incline, which was steeper than I would have imagined. I would say the steeper the better up to a certain point.

[kev]

Good job mate. It took me about the same time. Just note that the roads in the U.K. has the incline leaning towards the right i.e to the centre of the road. So when I started learning this skill, I had my front wheel facing towards the right instead.

[sshenge]

Took me about 4 years of cycling until I was comfortable enough to stay for the whole 3 minutes. Note that I can only do it on a flat road or ascending. Still can't stand on a descend.

[alstonian]

Step no.1 get a full carbon s works and it does work :)

[speedsociety]

awesome mate! this is my motivation to now get after it during the christmas break! wouldnt it have been easier being clipped in though?

[mohongzhi]

Try a fixie, I start Track Stand on a fixie, it cost me less than 30 minutes to do it. then find a gentle incline and switch to flywheel bike it's just became automaticlly.

[nononsense]

Taking a rest week, so maybe ill try to finally learn this haha

[mickonYT]

mad effort. Thanks for the motivation to learn. Question, do you have toe overlap to the front wheel? That's one of my issues

[Saltydog]

Do you feel that it is dangerous to do track stand wearing clipless pedal at a traffic light with a lot of cars around you?

[DanTuber]

Too scared to do this when clipped in.

[SkiddosSiren]

What bike is that? Is the curvy seat stay any better than any normal straight seat stay?