Road Cycling: Track stand?

1. Learn to idle on a unicycle.

----if you don't have a unicycle---

 find a small uphill place with no traffic. Click in, get going 5 mph, coast to a stop, as you get close to stopping...put your pedals completely horizontal (the 9 and 3 o'clock), stand up and use your brakes, front wheel, and little pushes forward on the pedals to keep upright.

 

Ideally you want to be able to rock back and forth on that hill indefinitely. Eventually you'll be able to forgo the hill and use ur body weight to move ur bike around to maintain balance. 

Here is a link to a 'how to' video - just copy and paste! http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid770191396/bclid753308634/bctid860889923

The idea behind using a hill is so that you prevent the front wheel from rolling down the slope by putting pressure on the pedals. So, when you turn the front wheel up the hill until it stops, you will feel it start to roll down the hill, and that's when you prevent it from doing so by pushing down on your lead pedal, forcing the wheel to go back up the hill. You can use this line of thinking to rock back and forth, up and down the slope, until eventually you won't have to roll very far up the slope. As you get better at this, you'll be able to do the trackstand on flat ground and just balance. It's a great, all-around cycling skill to have and works in numerous applications.

I thought when you got a fixed gear you all of a sudden knew how to do a trackstand.  Rats.  I guess I'll have to learn this too...