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So you think you know how to ride a bike?
« on: May 26, 2015, 02:23:44 PM »

http://dailyliked.net/backwards-brain-bicycle/

My neighbor sent me this.  Pretty much how I felt in learning all the counter-intuitive stuff with SUP and surfing.  The older you get, the harder to construct the algorithms.

Probably more amazing is how much I have been able to learn even at an older age.
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Re: So you think you know how to ride a bike?
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2015, 03:29:22 PM »
The video didn't stream well for me, but I did manage to watch it.  Very cool!  I'd love to try to ride that bike!  We don't even know the many ways we're stuck in our thinking and doing, but this video shows that we can become DEEPLY stuck.  Eight months vs two weeks!!  It's no fun getting old....

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Re: So you think you know how to ride a bike?
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2015, 03:43:47 PM »
Interesting video and concepts. I'm glad no one is going to rig my standup's so that everything is opposite! ;D

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Re: So you think you know how to ride a bike?
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2015, 03:58:15 PM »
Backwards bikes have been around since the fifties, maybe even earlier. We had one at a bike shop I worked at.

They used to have them at fairs where they would challenge anyone to ride it for a quarter or something. The guy would ride it around and then say, now you try it. If you could ride it, you'd win a prize.

I rode it.  It just took me a few hours to figure it out and rearrange my brain.  I didn't ride for months like the guy in the video so the transition back to a normal bike was easy.
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Re: So you think you know how to ride a bike?
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2015, 05:19:18 PM »
Brilliant....making it a trip to Amsterdam that is.

 


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