How long does it take to learn to track stand?

[@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!

[@mjokffsgfjs]

You forgot to mention the racing flip flops are essential.

[@cyclingunboxed]

Haha! Yes. Not achievable without them

[@peckermusic]

Really useful advice

[@nickrobinson2023]

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

[@kev2382]

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.

[@cyclingunboxed]

That’s very true! Maybe I will have to learn this again then 😂

[@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

[@cyclingunboxed]

Ah good tip to know! Thank you!

[@fede1275]

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

[@cyclingunboxed]

I was amazed at how it just started to come together!

[@0views372]

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!

[@realjaklap]

Stellar vid mate!

[@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.

[@Christophe_L]

I should say that just because I did it once on an incline, doesn't mean I was able to instantly do it on flat. But that gave me the feedback on what you're supposed to do, I practiced that and then doing it on flat got easier and easier. So don't be discouraged, I would say this is something EVERYONE can learn! I learned this when I was a fairly noobish mountainbiker and it has been extremely useful and fun skill to learn (and show off).

[@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

[@cyclingunboxed]

I don’t on this bike but have on others! Which bike do you have that does this?

[@mickonYT]

@@cyclingunboxed old Pinarello FP6. It’s a size 48. I’m a 165cm rider with 160mm cranks as well

[@speedsociety9177]

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

[@cyclingunboxed]

Glad to hear you are going for it! For me I don’t think so. This gives you the option to bail when learning. And you can’t use the rear pedal anyway. You have to use the hill on a normal road bike

[@SkiddosSiren]

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

[@cyclingunboxed]

This is the specialized roubaix sl3 Which I do have a video on: Repainting and Reviving My Crashed Specialized Roubaix SL3 kzbin.info/www/bejne/emaYcqyCoZWFoJI The curved seat stay is just to accommodate one of their old technology for shock absorption which are the zerts. They are just like little rubber inserts. They have moved away from this now.

[@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.

[@Saltydog547]

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?

[@cyclingunboxed]

I have found in the real world I don’t very often come up to a light on a slight up hill. Meaning I don’t have the chance to do it often now. When I do now though If I get it slightly wrong I find it just easy enough to unclip so haven’t found it dangerous for myself. I hope that helps a little

[@c.s.4273]

Is it a freewheel hub?

[@cyclingunboxed]

Yea this bike has a normal free hub on it. Not a fixed gear.

[@nononsense2688]

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

[@cyclingunboxed]

I would love to know how long it takes so I can get a good idea on how long it will take most people to learn

[@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.

[@Carftymk]

can you bunnyhop?

[@cyclingunboxed]

Yea, I have been able to bunny hop since I was young. Would have been another good video though!

[@DanTuber]

Too scared to do this when clipped in.