Do we really need another reason to give triathletes a bad name in bike handling? :D

I haven't watched the video, maybe he mentions it there, but apparently if you persevere and learn to ride the reverse bike, you won't be able to ride a normal bike anymore.

Not on a train, not on a plane.

When I first hopped on my TT bike my main goal was to just keep it between the ditches. So no, I don't think the backwards bike would work for me. Of course I may be some kind of idiot-savant backwards bike riding genius and am not aware of it - I'll give it a go.

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he does mention it and tries riding a normal bike....he can ride it fine.

I’m not too sure about that theory, maybe if you did nothing but ride a backwards bike?

Closest similar thing I can think of is learning to drive a trailer in reverse, the steering goes in the opposite direction. You don’t suddenly forget how to reverse without the trailer after you learn to reverse with it attached to the car.

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Try it, try it, and you’ll see!
You could ride it into a tree!

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I tried several years ago, there was a busker in Fredericton NB that had one. $5 to try and you won $100 if you could ride it 25 feet around a cone, and back to the start.

Nope.

Or off a boat.
Or into a moat.

State Fairs do have these bikes to win stuffed animals and whatnot.
It's impossible to ride even 5 feet.

Once as a teenager I tried holding the left handlebar with my right hand...and immediately took a face full of pavement.

And they wonder why the interwebs are a waste of time ;-) I'll pass and keep the skin on my elbows, thank you very much!

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I would not could not ride this bike
Not even if it were a trike
I would not take it on a hike
It's not a bike I think I'd like

Yeah, but I wouldn't really say he mastered riding the reverse steering bike. Show me a video of him riding at 15 mph then sweeping through a downhill S curve without eating it...then hopping back on a regular bike. To me, all he proved was that he could balance on the reverse steering bike in a straight line.

It's not to say that he couldn't ride a regular bike after if he did so...but you take any 6 year old that learns first takes the training wheels off their bike and they can ride it far better than this guy was riding his reverse steering bike.

I wonder if it would be easier to just ride it no handed?

Using the handlebars is what messes things up

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Did you see the closing shots of the video? The last few seconds show him riding pretty well in an open field. I would put those last few seconds well above a 6 y.o. post-training wheels.

I know there are lots of studies (going back decades) regarding these types of visual-motor skills and reversals...so called prism studies, that look at various aspects of learning, unlearning, and relearning with reversed, transposed, and inverted vision. This seems very similar.

Let's see it on rollers :P

if it’s the video I’ve seen someone tries no handed and doesn’t work. I’m not sure why.

Someone also tried my other idea, crossing their arms. That didn’t work either.