On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Maxime Thériault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saw it somewhere before, (You probably know but..) I reckon it was some > dude showing off his skill by staying in place on a fixie with only one leg. > It's tremendously impressive. I can hardly stay in place with a geared bike, > with both hands and feet on there. (Having a fixie might help in that regard > though as you can easily move forward and back, while on a geared bike, one > is supposed to do it on a slight slope to replicate that behavior) > > Neat pic.
Yeah, trackstands are way easier on trackbikes (hence the name). A lot of messengers in Toronto (maybe not so much in Montreal with that mountain in the middle of town) use fixies, and between calls some of them practice trackstands and even (as with Kiki here) handsfree trackstands: http://tinyurl.com/58j5zn http://bp2.blogger.com/_EaTEtfR4WJw/SAdA1RLseDI/AAAAAAAAB3A/sFQsVeMg1nk/s1600-h/kiki.jpg I'm fine with trackstands - as long as I can hang onto the handlebars - but handsfree? No way, not for me. BTW, the pic that Bob showed us, for some reason I always thought that he was going real slow, not that he was doing a trackstand. I could be wrong, though... cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
