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Can someone explain what a "track stand" is?
by coin 11y ago
Can someone explain what a "track stand" is?
- gnopgnip 11y agoWhere you stay still without removing your feet from the pedals by pedaling the bike slightly forward or backwards and turning the handlebars.
- stickydink 11y agoThere's a YouTube video linked in the article. Basically, stand off the seat, and balance while stationary by rocking forwards and backwards. Possible on a fixed gear bike because pedaling backwards moves the wheel backwards.
- alistairSH 11y agoAlso possible on a "normal" freewheeled bicycle. Just takes a bit of an incline and a bit more body english. Not super useful, but a neat trick, and good balance exercise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbeaB3G79vI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbeaB3G79vI
- ScottBurson 11y agoIndeed. I can't do it -- well, I've never really tried -- but I saw a guy doing it this morning. His bike definitely had derailleurs. (Though hmm -- I suppose I don't know for an absolute fact that it had a freewheel. But I've never heard of a rear cluster without a freewheel.)
- rhinoceraptor 11y agoIt's balancing in place on a bike. You turn the handlebars 45 degrees one way or the other, and find the balance point. Since the front wheel is turned, when you pedal forward you lean one way, and when you pedal backward you lean the other way. It's sometimes employed in track cycling (where fixed gear bicycles are used), hence 'track stand'.
- kuschku 11y agoYou can do the same on bikes with normal gears by turning the front wheel back and forth in the right frequency.
- dmourati 11y agoStanding still on a bicycle with both feet on the pedals. The term comes from track racing where jockeying for starting position by moving at a snails pace and/or frequently stopping signals the start of the race.