How long does it take to learn to track stand?

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

Is it a freewheel hub?

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!

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

You forgot to mention the racing flip flops are essential.

can you bunnyhop?

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