SmarterEveryDay - 2015-04-24
Get your own here ⇒ http://bit.ly/BuyBackwardsBike ⇐ Shirt: https://goo.gl/doOG3G I give talks: http://www.smartereveryday.com/appearances Patreon Support Link: http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Tweet ⇒ http://bit.ly/BackwardsBike ⇐ ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓Read More ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓ Here's the link from the Amsterdam meetup! (I usually make a localized facebook post before I visit a city to see if anyone wants to high five.) https://www.facebook.com/SmarterEveryDay/posts/754136271287207 Comment threads on Reddit: http://bit.ly/1yZ5rUo (Bicycling) My Instagram account: http://instagram.com/smartereveryday Patreon Support Link: http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Twitter: https://twitter.com/smartereveryday www.facebook.com/SmarterEveryDay Slow Motion Sound Design by "A Shell In The Pit" The awesome music by "A Shell In The Pit" is called: "Bottles" which can be downloaded here. https://ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/track/minke-bottles Album here: https://ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/album/smarter-every-day-vol-ii A special thanks to these guys for helping me make the bikes in Australia. Brian - @weezmgk Tom - @SydneyTom_ Bib Bishop - Actually turned the gears down in his shop. Couldn't have done it without Bob! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GET SMARTER SECTION: A quick clarification.... It took me 8 months to learn how to do this, but I was only picking up the bike and running to the end of the driveway and back every day. I wasn't "ACTIVELY" trying to learn. Meaning... I wasn't struggling and trying to make my brain learn. I simply got on the bike every day, tried to operate it to the end of the driveway, turned around and tried to operate it back. The goal was to understand how my brain figured things out on its own, without trying to force it to. Many people have built bikes like this and figured it out in much less than 1 day by staying on the bike until they were able to master it. I had no timelines, and was using this as an exploratory activity to learn how I learn. Do not misinterpret this to mean that I struggled and tried very hard every day for 8 months. That's simply not true. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tweet ideas to me https://twitter.com/smartereveryday I'm also on Instagram, Facebook, and Reddit http://instagram.com/smartereveryday https://www.facebook.com/SmarterEveryDay http://www.reddit.com/r/smartereveryday If you like what I do and want to support my efforts to create Smart kids and Smarter Every Day here are a couple of links you can use to help. You will be notified when every single video is released! Patreon Support Link: http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Subbable Support Link: http://subbable.com/smartereveryday Warm Regards, Destin
> build a bike like this
> forget how to ride normal bikes
> learn to ride the inverted bike
> use just the inverted bike
> never get your bike stolen again
Stuart Mills But... It is racism. You have built a systemic racist system since the founding of this nation through the slavery of african americans, note I say African American because even after we stopped bringing slaves, more were born here into it. Imagine having done nothing to earn your spot in society, just luck that your ancestors were NOT the ones in shackles or getting whipped in the “name of god”, There is no such things as white people being genetically superior, because you are not, you are not mixed, you don’t have the strength of Africans, the resilience of a hispanic or the loyalty of actual caucasians. You are racist, so it’s safe to suggest you are genetically inferior inbred material, it’s why you probably have a million health problems, with more coming as you age. But hey when you get shot, don’t blame color, look in the mirror. Im more afraid of a white person now a days anyways, you’re a bunch of school shooters, at least if my bike is stolen it won’t kill kids. Plus it’s a bike, cheap, I would give it to someone if they really need it... you are not very bright huh. Watching this channel? Still making ignorant comments. Guess learning is not really your forte.
Thieves are dumber than you think -- and they can toss a stolen bike into a pickup.
@Wade Marley wot? Troll.
OR teach your kids ONLY how to use that bike.
Stuart Mills your a dumbass mate
I wouldnt recommend hopping on a motorcycle after doing this.
@probably_drunk you also do it on a bike after a few miles an hour. You just didn't know it.
@SueUTube you contersteer a bike too.
@probably_drunk Countersteering is much different from sterring backwards. As you said, when you countersteer you're already going 15mph which makes the vehicle WAYY more stable and more easy to judge and predict how it will react. Having to steer backwards from a stop while releasing the clutch would definitely be much different.
Counter stearing works the same on a bicycle as it does a motorcycle althought I also think it could be applied to a low speed inverted bicycle. push left turn left...
As a matter of fact, after a specific speed on a motorcycle toy need to crank the bars right to go left and vice versa.
dustin: it took me 8 months to learn it
kiddo: hold my milk
Lol
hold my juice box
finally someone made that stupid "hold my ......" joke funny.
Duh have someone who has no idea how to ride a bike I'm sure he'll get it faster
are you implying milk is a children's drink? milk is for legends, how dare you.
My mans just used a bicycle to teach you how to stop having a fixed mindset. This is what we need in the world today. New subscriber. 👍👍
The whole point of the video was quite the opposite tho, how you can't really get rid of bias completely
@Braian Pita Mindset and bias are not one and the same. Yes, you can't get rid of biases, but a fixed mindset is a conscious decision people make. "This is the nature of things, and anybody thinking otherwise is either actually trying to trick other people or being tricked themselves."
@3l H4ck3r C0mf0r7 well yeah but that's the point, it's a conscious decision that as soon as you let your guard down it can fail you again
@Braian Pita At the end, the point he's making is "I came into this thinking I could conquer my cognitive biases and comprehend bike mechanics well enough to swap any sign in my brain's "ride a bike" formula on the fly! Now I know how I can't."
That's having a flexible mindset, and what OP's statement boils down to.
@3l H4ck3r C0mf0r7 true this
Anyone else think that he was gonna ride a bike literally backwards?
@sigsputnik1 +1 haha
That would be a fixie ride
Me
No
I thought he meant peddles and steering
Destin: you can not ride this bike for more then ten feet
Me an intellectual: * does wheelie *
That won’t work. While starting a bike you do minor corrections using the handle to get the centre of gravity correct. With the handle reversed you would push opposite to your centre of gravity. Same would happen even if you do a wheelie.
I bet ten minutes on that bike would prove you wrong right away. LOL
@Kashish Garg you can always do the corrections while stationary and perform a wheelie with the front wheel center aligned. Just look up a wheelie youtube video.
There’s a point called the balance point in a wheelie. No momentum in the front wheel needed just the perfect balance of forward motion and brake to find that balance point
Hilwan Hamdi think you are getting confused using the term momentum, momentum is a force that allows an object to keep moving and gather speed it’s a force that gradually builds up and it’s not sudden. To perform a wheelie you need a sudden burst of power which throws all the weight backwards lifting the front end upwards as the forces pulling the rear of the bike backwards are greater then gravity trying to pull the front end back downwards. To wheelie a push bike all you need to do is position the pedal which your dominant leg is on at around 10 or 11 o’clock as you punch down hard on the pedal throw your weight backwards and the front wheel comes up.
1:46 wassup with that girl she just randomly slipped 😂😂
Own fault shouldn't cross when there's a bicycle
koekiemonster !! Have you heard of the red light/green light system?
@Jari Bal there r no traffic lights there
koekiemonster !! Yes there are
@Jari Bal were?
Knowledge doesn't equal understanding nor does it equal intelligence.
gets off bike, relieved
guy: u think im lying
lady: yea
guy: im not lying
im dead
Now I'm curious to see how bad I am with this bike
I thought he was talking about shrooms when he talked about breaking his mind on streets of Amsterdam.
Bruh
@deus vult bruh
5:17 hurt my brain more than any other video I’ve seen on this channel. The idea that you intentionally backwards your brain, and now a normal bike is like where you started out on the backwards bike... just insane.....
1:44
Oh my god i laughed so hard xD Didnt see that one comming
Leave it somewhere unattended and video surveilled and wait for a bike thief. That would be the funniest footage ever.
U need to send this link n that comment to a prank channel that will actually do it. That would absolutely be hilarious.
Paul TheSkeptic : yes, the reversed handlebars would TOTALLY interfere.
please
FACKSTSSSS
@Moot But have you run with them?
When you accidentally invert the camera controls in a video game
1:45
sorry but it made me laugh how that person just fell out of nowhere and the biker crashed
If he offerd me 200 $ toride 10 feet i would just do a wheelie
milk yo doesnt work bro trust me, as soon as you push off your brain subconsciously makes corrections to balance you, which makes you fall over when steering is reversed. plus if you hold them perfectly straight you will still fall off anyway cause you have to steer to balance, try ride your normal bike with the steering completely locked.
The moving of the handle bars and wheel are part of being able to balance when doing a wheelie.
offered*
Nate Jones I would do that
I can ride anywhere no handed (exaggerating of course, this is the internet. I could do 10 feet though)
The balance is backwards It is not just The hand movements. Even free handed when you try to compensate to The right It would go to The left and vice versa
I've tried one of these bikes and it really is that hard. I can write in mirror writing or upside down and adjust to inverted controls in games in a second or so but this is completely different because it involves coordinating 100s of muscles and fundamentally different movements.
Bloody Pommel Studios I’ve tried it too
I think you have just discovered the best anti bike theft mechinism
Ahahah
Year apart from, you know, bike locks
@Jose Luigi Marvalera or just wrap a chain onto the bike and a pole
MusicandGamesandStuf lityle blavk kid took my bije fro. wal mart
A bike that can flip-flop between both modes unless the owner attach a gear = BEST SOLUTION !
Absolutely amazing when it "clicked"
Did your son end up fubar’d too and if so do you feel bad about making him forget how to ride a normal bike?
I tried to pee holding my ding-dong with my left hand, chugging a beer with my right while bouncing on a pogo-stick. The nurse in the E.R. thought I was crazy.
And she was pissed that you got pee all over her!
“Knowledge is not understanding” great statement for many things
Imagine a theft running away from a cop and he tries to get away with this bicycle.
Don't you mean a "thief"?
@HansDelbruck53 owh, i think i played too much grand theft auto
He would have 35 bullets in him before he got anywhere near the bike.
And the cops laugh cause the guy that did theft couldn't ride a bike
This is actually a really efficient way to prevent someone from stealing your bike...
I get it . When I was a young kid my neighbors had a go cart that someone made , but the steering was backwards. I tried to drive it and it was frustrating.... of course I didn’t have to balance it like you did on the bike..
1:45 why is no one talking about this poor lady
This guy has such a great positive vibe, transmitting it through his videos.
"Ride the bike 10 feet"
Me: gets on, a scooters it.
"You can't ride this bicycle you might think you can but you can't"
Me: "Oh I can definitely ride that"
@Toaster R you'd first have to gain momentum to let go of the handlebars
Anyone who actually rides a bike knows this
I feel like you need to close your eyes and pretend your driving backwards
The thing is when you put torque on the pedal you shift your weight to your other side for leverage. All you need to do is grab the shaft below the handle bars and you can shift your weight to the center of the bike.
I think all of our ingenious solutions here are beyond the point.... Props to everyone's ideas tho
@AWW_ YEA81 Somebody missed the point of the video and got confused because a bicycle was used as the visual explanation. No: you can not do this in less than an hour even if you have not ever even seen a bike in your entire life. (not even counting the learning how to ride one, reverse or not, in the first place)
The trick is to turn right and left at a comfortable speed to adjust from falling.
Ask me how I know, my goose neck was wore out...
1:45 we just gonna ignore the fact that the girl literally ate shi* 😂😂😂
?
What?
"literally"
Stop using literally wrong.
"But I did something that damaged my mind. It happened in the streets of Amsterdam"
As one does...
I sit on the bike's handlebars when I ride One backwards so I'm actually the one that's backwards but I can do it either way with ease.
I thought you would pedal backwards
Josh Roc007 same fr
Me too
exactly
Only if
we all did
This is my favorite video that you've done so far. Made me smile the whole time.
Now that he’s able to ride that bike, take the seat off and try it.
4:23 his son fall
him DID YOU SEEE HIS BRAIN GET IT!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, I can't believe I haven't seen this video though it's almost 5 years old. I think what Dustin did here is freaking amazing. He rewired his own brain for no other reason than he knew it could be done and he wanted to find out what it would be like. The whole process was fascinating.
I think people who have never driven a bike can drive this bike.
no, because you cant learn to drive a bike instantly. It would still take a good amount of time.
Idk how to ride one so lol
That's literally Every1 coz we r used to seen ride a bicycle in a manner n when it changes every1 will have difficulty just like when we learn to ride a bike same process repeats itself n that's why nocan can do it in 1 go
Angry Duck In German we say drive a bike (Fahrrad fahren), it would be weird to say ride a bike in German 😄 we only ride a 🐴
Nah. Then you'd just be learning how to ride a bike.
0:22 Lol I learned it when I was 3
(But I’m Dutch so that’s probably why)
"Truth is truth - No matter what I think about it."
Well said!
1:46 why am I laughing so much 😂
I built 2 of these for my kids 11 or 12 years ago my oldest son is 23 he can still ride it like a regular bike wheelies and all
For all my fellow bmx riders out there imagine a bar spin or tail whip
That's so racist
Dean Martin what?
@Sam Cox I don't know buddy
"The unsteal-able bicycle"
Destin: I would love to try and ride that bike sometime.
Putting some training wheels on initially will speed up the learning process. Avoiding time wasted from constant falling over.
“I’ll give you 200 bucks to ride this bike across the stage”
Ya boi about to pop a wheelie
Lol
@Christian Mahon bahahahaha
Couldn't you just drive it freehanded?
😂
...and now try driving this car...
Oof that was really heavy. Great way to rack my brains for a minute. Thanks for the great brain stretch.
Mamink - 2019-09-21
I thought this was going to be a bike where you'd have to pedal backwards to get it to move lol
Tanmay Jain - 2020-02-27
@zEEp I MADE EXACTLY THAT in a high school summer vacations. Front pedal it goes front , back pedal makes it go back. using two gears and two chains . But the back part was very hard to balance.
Vaishakh Balachandran - 2020-03-06
Me too
3l H4ck3r C0mf0r7 - 2020-03-09
@420protoman While what you're saying might be true, I'm pretty sure the brain is more than well suited to unconsciously compensate for things like that?
420protoman - 2020-03-09
@3l H4ck3r C0mf0r7 the bike is physically impossible to ride cuz of where your weight shifts its a fail
Virus 24 - 2020-03-17
Me 2!