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Examples
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Upon approaching the red light, he shoaled me and struggled awkwardly to slow his brakeless track bike, and then rolled through the crosswalk and into the intersection, where he proceeded to trackstand.
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However, he was unable to maintain the trackstand for the duration of the red light.
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The best case scenario is that in two centuries Grand Tours will become giant trackstand competitions.
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Is it some sort of erotical thing or a thing you have to do in this scene, like make trackstand for at leat 30sek to be allowed to buy a shirt as seen here:
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Is far preferable I would assume than doing that whole crazy hipster violent trackstand thing where they shift back & forth, side to side erratic and convulsively, all in the name of not embarrassing themselves by touching foot to pavement.
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Yes, people like "The Nonplussed Minnesotan Commuter" may scoff, but our local media is already dubbing this storm the "Snowpocalypse," or "Snowmageddon," or "God's Dandruff," or any number of irritatingly hyperbolized sobriquets, and life here has slowed to a virtual trackstand.
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At the intersection, I stopped, sat jauntily on my top tube, and admired the passing wardrobes of spring, while the person who had been "on my left" rode as far into traffic as possible and froze himself into a trackstand like a pointer who's spotted a duck:
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Unfortunately, though, the rider lacked the pointer's poise, and he botched the trackstand due to a combination of his own lack of skill and some sort of mishap with his toe clip:
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You know, in case you need to check your email while "slaying" a trackstand.
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Veit Rueckert won the trackstand competition, ending with an acrobatic 30-second balancing act with only one foot on a pedal.
Messenger world championships go to the rookies in Guatemala
alexz commented on the word trackstand
A trackstand is where a bicycle is stopped and the rider balances the bike.
January 12, 2013