You can't ride this bike

[maj]

I saw this interesting video a while back and I'm not sure that it hasn't been posted here before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0

[AngryScientist]

I'm not sure that it hasn't been posted here before.


http://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=167481&highlight=backwards+brain

[maj]

I did a search but dang, my search skills must be pretty wobbly. Sorry all for the repost.

[Dead Man]

I did a search but dang, my search skills must be pretty wobbly. Sorry all for the repost.

Well worth a re-post... it's pretty damn interesting stuff.

"Just like riding a bike"

Not quite!

[ANAO]

Yeah, it's amazing how easy it is to do in theory.

[AJM100]

there is so much play in the steering - no wonder it can't be ridden. I bet if that was tightened up to mimic actual headset play on a regular bike it could be ridden more readily. :bike:

[martl]

i found a story on the internet about some sort of a contest held, i believe, at an University. The task was: build a bike no one can ride.

There were ample approaches, reverse steering being one of the more harmless ones. There were bikes with odd-shaped wheels, bikes with hugely offset wheels, and all other sort of ideas and combinations.

Bootm line was: After several recaps of that event, no one hat won. There always was *somebody* who could ride it a few meters.