A backwards bike = major brain fuckage. 

"Bob LeDrew" (bobledrew1) 04/28/2015 at 14:49 • Filed to: bikelopnik, destin sandlin, bicycle, brains are weird

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Engineer Destin Sandlin runs a video channel called !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . This video of his (found on !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ) shows just what can happen when you challenge your brain. When he tries to ride a bicycle that’s been altered to steer backwards... chaos ensues. Eight months later, he’s taught himself to ride the “backwards bike” (a task his kid learns in a couple of weeks); but then how do you ride a regular bike?

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I’m not sure he’s correct in calling this a “cognitive bias” — to me the act of riding a bike is more a set of actions and skills that become unconscious and integrated with systems that are beyond our cognitive control, and the addition of the reverse steering requires our brain to reprogram a highly internalized SET of skills, not just the steering — but it’s pretty interesting.

Tareim - V8 powered > Bob LeDrew 04/28/2015 at 15:10

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It’d be a lot easier to control the reverse steering bike if it wasn’t for the very quick rack, if the steering angle changed slower it’d be easier to control

Bob LeDrew > Tareim - V8 powered 04/28/2015 at 15:15

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You might be right.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Bob LeDrew 04/28/2015 at 15:16

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Great stuff. Knowledge =/= understanding - applies to driving a manual transmission as well!

nermal > Tareim - V8 powered 04/28/2015 at 15:50

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Wouldn’t you expect a 1:1 ratio?

Tareim - V8 powered > nermal 04/28/2015 at 16:12

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yeah 1:1 would normally be favorable however in this situation I think it’d have to be perhaps 1:0.75 or less

DeWayneV8 > Bob LeDrew 04/28/2015 at 16:35

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That’s nothin, Richard Klein’s Rear Steer Bike I is so hard to ride, only one person has ever done it. He was one of my professors in college, and he figured out how to ride it using physics.

http://www.rainbowtrainers.com/?p=49

Not only does it steer in reverse, the steering is at the rear. Also, the bike becomes unstable above about 2 mph, and you cannot lean it because of the position the steering is in. It’s insane.

Frank Grimes > Bob LeDrew 04/28/2015 at 16:36

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this is awesome. so interesting on different levels especially where he just seemingly instantly clicked and was able to ride the normal bike. And I also never thought about how complicated it is to learn to ride a bike all the balance and forces that have to be balanced with each other.

Bob LeDrew > DeWayneV8 04/28/2015 at 18:11

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Gah, no video!

DeWayneV8 > Bob LeDrew 04/28/2015 at 22:43

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Trust me, he’s making it look easier than it really is. He won $5000 and uuber physics cred for doing it!

Bob LeDrew > DeWayneV8 04/29/2015 at 07:23

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That’s freakin’ weird.