An Unexpected Way To Learn Bike Balance

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  @SuperRiderTV · 2 years ago · pinned

  Want to learn more skills? Check out my best lessons (in the right order!) in the Bike Skills Encyclopedia: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVO-jrw-glQ">https://youtu.be/VVO-jrw-glQ</a>

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  @Frorideism · 2 years ago

  The first thing you&apos;ll need to learn: Stop caring about looking like a 2 year old trying to learn how to ride a bike, there&apos;s no shame in being a beginner. 👌

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  @purplelord8531 · 11 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApBWhctf_j8&amp;t=194">3:14</a><br>americans learning bicycle: ok so imagine car

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  @sportysbusiness · 1 year ago

  One thing you didn&apos;t mention, where you look! The adage &quot;where you look is where you go&quot; is very true, look at the ground when balancing and you will unbalance more easily. Focus on a point in front of you.

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  @KotakMeisterHamzah · 2 years ago

  This 44 year old newbie is learning this very skill (and the wheelie) so this video is timely. Thank you for this. Hopefully i get to master this. Keep the tutorials coming...you really are doing a fabulous job 👍

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  @Nosaracasalaplaya · 1 year ago

  &quot;And don&apos;t forget to breath&quot; . that&apos;s so true in more than one way😅

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  @seansmith3119 · 2 years ago

  Another noob in his 40s - got an ebike this summer. Based on your previous track-stand tutorial I spent 15 minutes a day for four days a week, and I got to a decent track stand after about three months. Thanks for the advice!<br>I have some feedback. As out of shape as I&apos;ve been, just balancing with the front wheel against my house was a challenge until I built up the core strength to hold myself in that position for more than a few seconds. It sounds bad, but that took a few weeks. At this point I recommend learning to balancing in two positions - with shoulders forward over the bar (as described), and also in a static position with the weight back. I learned that much later in the process, but it allowed me to move the bike forward or back in one motion rather than the full back and forth that is required from the forward-most position (but the motion comes later). So I spent another three weeks getting the pullback nice and under control as described. I liked the advice of using shorter and shorter supports from the previous video. I used a street curb and moved on to the transition as the curb goes to a flat driveway - another three weeks. Then I spent a couple weeks doing a slow turn that stopped into the same position I had been practicing against the supports. At first I had to build up balance in that frozen position so I had time to react - just half a second. The other advice from the previous video that really helped was using a slight uphill slope at this point. Just the inclined side of the crown in my street was enough to help me push my bike back and everything started to click into place. Now a two minute track stand is no problem! Next I hope to be able to get it on various uneven trail surfaces.<br>Thanks again.

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  @alr5373 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m a coach for a high school team and will use this set of techniques to teach my students. Pushing up against the tree and back away then with the break will become very useful in competitions our whole team of 100+ riders do each year. They&apos;ll be able to push up against other bike tires to knock them over or fake them out using their brakes.<br>Thanks for the video.

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  @hunorkiraly · 2 years ago

  You don&apos;t have to go in a stright line. My best practice ever was this: choosing a very steep, even extremely steep place, good hard ground, no sand or gravel, but: rocks and fat roots are welcome. These are usually trails that trekkers take uphill. Only you are going to downhill. As slow as you can. Without putting your foot down. This is a very zen activity, I loved it. Did this in the &apos;90s and took me a long way.

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  @thefirsted · 2 months ago

  I learned this when I was young after watching a Tom Hanks movie called &quot;The man with one red show.&quot; I did the slow down bit, but never the backwards thing. I&apos;m working to regain the skill.

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  @Northstar-Media · 5 days ago

  I can track stand &amp; roll back pretty well but I bottle it on stair cases with me going over the bars one time &nbsp;🚴‍♀️✨️

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  @Stewart_Bell · 1 month ago

  When i taught myself to do this (before youtube) i found it helpful in the beginning to have the bike - or just the front wheel - ponting up a very gentle gradient. Reglating the pressue on the leading pedal adjusts the bike side-to-side slightly beneath the rider. After quite a lot of practice I no longer needed the gradient.

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