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@mashton
Ummm, that is quite a lot of crap.
It depends on the ratio of your chainring (front) teeth to your sprocket (back) teeth. Which is why it is called a gear ration.
So yes, for a given chainring size more teeth on your sprocket will make it easier to trackstand, but if, for example, you had a 100t chainring, then a 18t sprocket will be impossible to trackstand. it is the equivalent of a 9t sprocket on a 50t chainring.