What is rocking? How do I trackstand?
Rocking is the easiest way to keep balance with a suspension fork; it consists of small pivots with both brakes applied. I will assume your familiarity with pivoting, since it’s a really easy and basic technique anyone can learn on his/her own. Try to visualize it: let’s say you’re trackstanding… Then you start losing balance to your right. To compensate for that, you need to move either one of your wheels to the right, in order to keep yourself from falling. You do that by a small pivot and everything that goes with it: change centre of your balance, lean the right (correct) way etc. To maintain balance in this example, you can pivot either one of your wheels to the right and lean a bit to the left. In all this, there is usually what I refer to as “main correction” and what I like to call “secondary correction”. Main correction is used to prevent the original balance flaw, the very reason you’ve started rocking (to remain balanced).
