nicely done....will he post video on utube?

 

Very impressive! I've never heard of track standing before. Learned something new.

 

Way to show him.

 

Yea basically. It comes from bicycle racing really. It helps if you can use the crown in the road or break between an intersection , then you can like rock up and back down the 'hill' and keep it balanced a bit easier. Just kind of bounce it off the clutch and working the brakes.

The other way is mostly good balance but if you understand (its not that difficult) bike geometry (rake/trail) you can use the bars to re-balance the bike. It takes practice but its not terribly hard.

On a bicycle, I can do it indefinately. I can easily track stand the duration of a complete turn signal cycle. Kinda freaks out cars parked a light though.

 

IDK, but he made sure to let me know that it was infact running.

 

Yeah I can do track stands on a bicycle pretty good but I can't imagine going for 30+ seconds on a motorcycle.

You don't ride fixed gear by any chance do you?

 

Back in my instructing days I never lost a "slow race". When the race started I put my feet up and sat there until all but the last student put a foot down. Balance and slow speed control...
Good job with beating the ticket!

 

I almost always have had at least one fixie but now that you mention it, no. I currently do not actually have one now. I sold one about a year ago and never put another one together.

Track standing a fixie is almost cheating tho.

 

lol Yeah it's super easy on a fixie. I've messed around on geared bikes a couple of times but I don't own any. Do you ride anything now?

 

I ride mostly road bikes and ride almost daily.

I have a Trek Madone ('12 full carbon OCLV) as my daily and I have few other oldskoolers. Litespeed (Ti) , Colnago (Italian steel) and a Paramount (US Steel) from around the 80's. I have one MTB that hasn't seen to much use since I moved but it gets out every so often.