The Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day 133

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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.

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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.)

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.
Album here:

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!

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Destin

[PaulTheSkeptic]

Leave it somewhere unattended and video surveilled and wait for a bike thief. That would be the funniest footage ever.

[adrianarmenta]

When Doc Hudson said “turn left to go right” I know what he meant

[rodrigomartiniriboldi]

> 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

[JeffReams]

If you could engage this mechanism and disengage it, this could be an anti theft system.

[monca]

I thought this was going to be a bike where you'd have to pedal backwards to get it to move lol

[Adam-rhqu]

Imagine a theft running away from a cop and he tries to get away with this bicycle.

[monkeymafia]

I think you have just discovered the best anti bike theft mechinism

[maktsan]

I've experienced something very similar to this. I have been a proficient typist for most of my life, able to get over 90 wpm. Then I decided to try a different keyboard layout, Colemak in particular. I committed to changing out the layouts on all of my computers, both at home and at work. Took me a few weeks but eventually I got it and was able to type proficiently with Colemak. Then, I went to use someone else's computer, still configure using the classic QWERTY layout. I had forgotten how to type on QWERTY and ended up being really slow. I eventually started switching back and forth between them so that I can remain proficient with both, but now I reverted back to QWERTY just because it's easier since that's the default layout for devices, and not every device has Colemak as an option.

[HawksNestYT]

Imma learn to ride this then nobody will ever steal my bike again


I’ll also never be able to steal someone’s bike ever again. But that’s okay...

[layna]

1:08 “you can see that I’m laughing but I’m actually very frustrated”

me everyday

[AWW_YEA]

"You can't ride this bicycle you might think you can but you can't"

Me: "Oh I can definitely ride that"

[graydonargast]

“You’re looking at the world with a bias, whether you think you are or not.” The difficulty is in remembering how true that is. Thanks for sharing.

[d_boss_mxk]

I wouldnt recommend hopping on a motorcycle after doing this.

[Mohammed-bdql]

"They think I'm dumb but I'm actually two levels deep into this"
This is going to be my motto lmao.

[gunners]

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. 👍👍

[blava]

This video was used in my Utah foster care training. Destin your positivity is reaching places you probably never imagined. Keeps up the good work.

[MegaFunflyer]

I actually built a copy of this bike in the 90's and rode it around the factory for a few weeks, I mastered it in about 2 weeks however, after a few weeks I had to stop doing it as it was affecting my ability to drive the car home after work, I had to really concentrate driving my car, the slightest relaxing caused me to steer the wrong way. This can be dangerous.

[Smokewheatt]

PLEASE PUT THAT BIKE OUTSIDE AND LET PEOPLE TRY TO STEAL IT!!!

[SethsBikeHacks]

Oh man, I'd love to try riding that bike!

[jessepno]

This has SO many applications to life. Had a huge fight with my spouse today about life stuff, but this shed so much light on the whys behind the way we do things. Thank you so much for these insights!