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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.
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Leave it somewhere unattended and video surveilled and wait for a bike thief. That would be the funniest footage ever.
They'd just pick it up and run off with it
@@reverendmarvelous2243 Presumably there are bike thieves who work from a van or whatever but many of them are opportunists. They see it, they grab it. Have you ever tried to lift a bike and ahem.. "run off"? Especially the steel framed old school bike like that one and not one of these brand new carbon fiber and titanium things that start at $1000? I don't think it's as easy as you might think but honestly, that's not really the point. I thought about this image of a bike thief seeing the bike, grabbing it and riding off immediately falling over and subsequently examining the the bike with a huge question mark on his face. (Or her I suppose) The thief would make the mental adjustment that there was something different about this bike and presumably, he'd try again and fail immediately. He might even try again if he was determined enough and that's what made me laugh. Just this scenario playing out in my mind was quite funny if you think about it so I wanted others to laugh at it too. Hence the comment. But I honestly do appreciate any attempt at logical accuracy. No harm done and have a lovely rest of your day.
@@PaulTheSkeptic I could run off with one real easily personally. That's just me though I guess
@@reverendmarvelous2243 You can sprint with a big heavy thing that flops around and has chains and other sharp parts that don't react well to flesh? You'd have to hold it up high over your head just to get it clear from your body enough for your muscles to run without limping; like you would if you were trying to trudge it along on your side while running. I mean maybe but I'm still dubious. I'd sure like to see the experiment. I'm not trying to be contrary. I'm actually interested at this point. How fast can someone run while holding a bike and trying to not be seen? It's an interesting question. Do you think you might be able to film yourself doing it? I hope that's not imprudent. If not, that's totally fine. We can just leave it there. edit I just had a thought. If you ran while pushing the bike along, that should be doable. But then would the reversed handlebars interfere?
@@PaulTheSkeptic you sound very skeptikal. It's ok though. I assure you, I could run pretty fast with it, also if someone were chasing me and catching up I could throw the bicycle and hit them with it. I'm a pretty big guy. Then it would be easy to just lock the handlebars straight, stand on one side of it and use it as a scooter. You can go pretty fast that way and can steer by leaning. All you have to do is keep the handlebar straight which is pretty easy especially downhill. I'm sure youve used a bicycle as a scooter before. You are well versed in bicycles, are you not?
> 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
Great idea
Lol so true.
@@orange_blossoms_sunset Yes because the government needs to take suggestions from a drunk guy in the youtube comments
> thief learns inverted bike > $$$profit$$$
@@orange_blossoms_sunset no matter what there will *always* be crimes no matter if the person who committed the crime was white or not. in japan which is one of the safest countries has crimes and almost all citizens are japanese. don't be an uncool racist.
If you could engage this mechanism and disengage it, this could be an anti theft system.
😄😄
@@liveinfoportal good thinking;)
Why the engaging and disengaging? Just have your bike on reverse steering permanently and learn to use it. No one will steal it.
@@TibatorRiant truly a galaxy brain move
That's exactly what I just thought xD
“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.
Well and in many ways, without a bias, we would be hopelessly lost. Paralyzed by indecision. Afterall, we would only be able to commit to an action after seeing how the entire future of the universe would behave, and even then we would need a value system to determine which behavior we prefer.
We should not seek to completely eliminate bias, or even prejudice or discrimination, from the human mind. Rather, we should seek to eliminate biases which either are themselves irrational or which when applied produce harmful outcomes that only function to increase our confidence in the bias through a feedback mechanism.
I thought this was going to be a bike where you'd have to pedal backwards to get it to move lol
Imagine the combination of both
@@eray7232 That'd be fun to try!
Same
That would be the worst transportation
I thought that too
When Doc Hudson said “turn left to go right” I know what he meant
Because he's riding backwards or he's refrencing to Cars 1
This is the best comment I’ve ever seen
best comment on youtube so far~
This is how you ride a motorcycle, it's called counter steering. When youre straight up and down and turn the bars left (push on the right side of the bars) the top of the bike shifts to the right and the center of gravity falls to the right side of the center of traction. I don't know what force it would be but the bars shift back the correct way to keep you off the ground, and now you're turning. It's really hard to explain but if you ever ride a motorcycle or bike at speeds more than say, 10 mph, pay attention to how steering works on it. I'm still confused by it to this day and I have several thousand miles ridden on my motorcycle.
raju c the greatest racing movie of all time
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.
at one point did you get proficient in both? like you could switch between them and (perhaps after a slow start) get back to fast typing relatively quickly?
@@acookie7548 a bit late here, but I did the same thing for a while, switching between colemak and qwerty, and I was able to get relatively proficient with both (although never reaching my qwerty-speed of ~140 wpm with colemak) being able to switch quickly between them. I dropped colemak a while later, just because I didn't feel I was getting much out of it (and it was a bit of a hassle to be honest). Was fun and interesting anyhow :)
I'm not proficient, but I've used ANSI keyboards from my childhood to high school. When PCs became common in 90s, ISO (European layout) became more common and it's almost impossible to get one in last 15-20 years, unless you want some high end keyboard, cause smaller or gaming companies did not yet adopted to local market. And layout differs in few keys - length of enter, lenght of shifts and placement of /. And I never got used to Czech layout having Z/Y switched and all special characters misplaced (because we need to fit maybe 15 letters with diacritics somewhere). It does barely matter for normal text, but as a software developer
Yeah sadly q w e r t y layout is not efficient insight it was meant for typewriter as you can do a bit more research on it if you really want to know more but that's the gist of it.
Wow, same here. Had a speed over 120 for qwerty but then I picked up workman and now I can't type on qwerty anymore. But it is fun when people try to type on my laptop and then think they forgot their English alphabets.
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.
"You can't ride this bicycle you might think you can but you can't" Me: "Oh I can definitely ride that"
AWW_ YEA81 this would be easy to ride
Ik especially because ive only rode a bike like a few times so I'm not that used to it
@Jake Allen 4:53 nah you can't
AWW_ YEA81 this dude isn’t all as good as he says, that ration system with two separate pole and a free rotation of the gears is what is causing the tire to wobble
everybody can but not in a day
Imagine a theft running away from a cop and he tries to get away with this bicycle.
That thief gotta be pretty dumb or have that cycle as his last resort to escape from the police 😂
Lmao imagine that the policemen making fun of the thief because he can't ride a bicycle so the thief mocks them to try it so in the end they'll be like "get off, i bet i can do it"
@@Rii._. that would be hilarious
Might actually be a new trick for not getting your bike stolen
I laughed really hard about this. 😂
I actually did this exact thing.. "Damaged my brain" by working on a sciencecenter and they had a reversed-bike as well.. I dont own my own due to age but i rode that every day until i learned it.. Now.. nearly 10 years later, i picked up a bike and tried the simple thing to go to the store, and i couldnt believe myself when i actually totally lost how to ride it.. The "reversed-biking" sat deep in my scull trying to make me think that this is how cycling works.. I walked to the store that day..
Still one of my favorites years later. This, the weed wacker tournament, the first ssbc video, and a lot of others. Honestly I think I love every single video you’ve put out. It’s helped me learn so much and has slightly helped me learn the career path I want.
I think you have just discovered the best anti bike theft mechinism
+monkeymafia729 bike thieves do not necessarily ride bikes
+Daniel Sultana you're the type of guy i don't want around my bike
+will penrose why not? I'm not a bike thieve
+Daniel Sultana yeah, they do. it's why it's common. They're literally riding the goods away. There are many who use trucks to transport bikes but for the most part, bike thieves are petty criminals and don't particularly plan ahead, it's a crime of opportunity.
+Daniel Sultana It's still hard to sell a bike like that though.
1:08 “you can see that I’m laughing but I’m actually very frustrated” me everyday
s/me /smarter/
Deep
Ayeeee exollll
I'm 14 and this is deep...
I'm 25 and I'm drowning with how deep this is.
It's ridiculous how much satisfaction I got from you watching your kid fall off his bike and you just casually turn the camera to yourself without running to his aid...your kid's much tougher than most kids these days
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!
Do you know nice in medieval times means stupidity? And apron exists for an interesting reason. It is napron first . And somebody wrote a napron badly , so people recognised it as an apron
4:24 kid : *fall Destin : _"Did you see his brain get it?"_
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😂
*accidentally dropped some water* _Did you see his brain get it_
The kid DID ride it much better & for a longer distance than did his dad after much more time & effort. This is legit.
the F.R.E.E. J. Yeah, but the father is an engineer. Engineers are horrible at anything hands on...good at things on paper. His son is a future welder.
"They think I'm dumb but I'm actually two levels deep into this" This is going to be my motto lmao.
My instagram bio
😂 😂 😂
Two levels depinned to this..
The ultimate theft deterrent.
lmao
I think this might be my most favorite video ever of yours! It's sporadically shows up in my suggested videos to watch and I click on it more often than not because every time it just makes me rethink everything that I think!
6 years since you uploaded and I first watch this and it is still one of my all time favorite videos!
PLEASE PUT THAT BIKE OUTSIDE AND LET PEOPLE TRY TO STEAL IT!!!
i laughed already
This exact thought came to me while I read this
@Smoke Wheat This is not a prank channel.
@SUPERNATURAL MAN 1000 IQ man right here.
Sounds like a collab with Mark Rober is in order!
Destin: 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.
I SAW HIS BRAIN GET IT!
That was the first video i ever saw of your channel years ago, glad it got recommended again today, reminded me of the interesting content it was ! Keep it up Destin
I wouldnt recommend hopping on a motorcycle after doing this.
Hahaha. True
@@VamsiMohanKrishnaVadrevu countersteering
you literally countersteer after about 15mph on a motorcycle. We have to learn how to do both.
wouldn't*
@@phatrides222000 You counter steer on all two wheeled vehicles at all speeds, including bicycles. You even fundementally countersteer on snowboards and surfboards. You don't learn countersteering, if you can ride a bicycle your brain already understands it inantely.
Mom: What are you laughing about? Me: Nothing My brain: Someone trying to steal his bike and fails miserably.
Ha,ha,ha! That's a brilliant idea. Perhaps a secret switch to alternate between normal and the weird one. Great security system!
You don't really need to ride it to steal it though...
@@iHaxYT Just for laughs, no logics needed though. But yeah, they can just lift it.
I need a yt prank vid of this
@@Nyakozame though why are they even stealing it if they can't use it
Absolutely one of my favorite videos on KZhead by one of my favorite 'Toobers. Thanks Destin, truly changed the world with your videos IMHO.
You are amazing. I love that you practiced for 8 months. You just proved that with enough practice you learn anything. Thank you!!!
I thought you would pedal backwards
Joshua Rocamora I thought the same thing 😂😂😂
Joshua Rocamora my friend has a bike like that.. weird
SAME
Me too hahaha
Josh Roc007 same
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
@@braianpita6385 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."
@@3lH4ck3rC0mf0r7 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
@@braianpita6385 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.
@@3lH4ck3rC0mf0r7 true this
This is one of the most simple and brilliant ways I can demonstrate to people the difficulty of what I'm trying to help them do (re-wiring some deep brain programming). I absolutely LOVE the video and I'm so grateful for this reference point. Would you be okay with me recreating this for some of my talks and giving you full credit of course?
There are many of these bikes around. It isn't a novel concept
Years ago, this was the first Smarter Everyday video I ever watched. I was instantly hooked.
6:03 this boy cheers him up saying “You can do it!, you can do it!” In Dutch. That’s so sweet
Yiu got it you got it?
Tenebrus • 10 years and No he says ‘Je kan het’
@@KJ-wu3ux joh maar hij heeft er bij gezet in het Nederlands
What's interesting about this is how even though you unlearned bike riding, you managed to re-learn it faster than it took you to learn the backwards bike. So I wonder if you did both types of bicycles regularly if your brain could adjust to the idea of both at once.
I would say yes... I drive two different kind of bicycles and their brakes, handlebar, gears, geometry are very different (as well as diferent braking performance). In the beginning was a bit of a panic in some situations with one of them... But nowadays? I don't even need to remind myself which bicycle I'm driving... My brain have already associated my body position to a different "task". So I can change the bicycle at any moment, I will cycle without issues. Off course, if I'm not Riding one of them for a long time, I start to lose confidence in some technical situations but I gain it back very quickly with some practice (like a remainder). The more you do this, the more easy it gets...this is truth for any learning process:)
Some stunts pilots fly upside down during their show so they better be able to switch between the regular and inverted controls pretty fast if they dont want to crash. I was trying to learn to fly upside down in a video game and i had this very issue but i feel like its coming together.
Muad'dib been flying the ornithopters have we?
Your Brain Have Information,One Is Normal Bike And Backward One,Your Eye Will Send Information To Your Brain To Use Your Experience Riding A Backward Bike I Am Not Good At English So I Am Sorry,
His brain probs just had the knowledge of how to ride a normal bike stored away
I have a request, Destin. Please make a lot more videos than you do, so I can watch them all day long! So much fun
Destin, so far I have watched a couple of your videos and I enjoyed them all. Now, one of my biggest passions is cycling, and I was truly amazed by this simple yet incredible experiment of yours. Shoutout to you, keep up the good work man, keep on doing the great content that we love. Cheers from Europe.
"You can see that I'm laughing, but I'm actually really frustrated!" Yeah, story of my life bruh -_-
Aw man. Things can't be that bad. You get to eat every day don't you? You get to watch KZhead videos. If you told me you had a girlfriend, what more could a guy ask for?
@@PaulTheSkeptic Money? Cause you missed that
@@StevenAkinyemi Money's overrated. Everyone wants more money. I get it. I'd like more money too but as long as you have a smile on your face and fresh clean food to eat, you don't NEED money. Some people make the lifestyle choice to go without money most of the time. They used to call them hobos, then it was gutter punks for a while or Dead Heads. You know, Drifters. I was watching a thing about hobos on KZhead and this old guy was talking about when he used to hobo. Now he lives with in a nice house with a wife and money but every once in a while he'd take a few months and just go. He chose to live like that. I've never done that myself but I'd imagine that that lifestyle has its own unique set of challenges. You're not worried about paying the mortgage, you're worried about the pangs of hunger or the bull.
@@PaulTheSkeptic What an idiotic statement.
@@komodo420. bit morni Braune faive true nolaque
“ I done something that damaged my mind, it happened on the streets of Amsterdam” Yep, Amsterdam does that to you. I once ate a full pack of magic mushrooms in the dam.
Fandango Brandango lol
😂🤣🙃🤸😂
dam bro
What happened?
I think being able to switch is also a skill that has to be learned. I've heard stories of people going to language immersion programs and getting really deep into the language. When they try to switch back to their mother tongue, they find their brain "sticking" in the language they were learning for a bit. Yet bilingual people who use both languages regularly have no problem switching back and forth.
100% and 3 languages aren't any harder than 2
I'm bilingual (English and Spanish) and when I went to learn Japanese, I forgot a ton of words in both English and Spanish, and my sentences became choppy in English and Spanish, because I could not snap back into the grammar structure, and it would take a few minutes for me to go back into thinking like an English speaker, but I can switch between Spanish and English instantly without any difficulty. So I'm thinking I can understand too some degree what it feels like to switch mentally from the backward bike into normal bike. Cool insight you gave!
This video is one of my favorite of all yours. Maybe the one with the ballon going forward as the car also goes forward might be as brilliant as this one. This bike video I will never forget. It has been some 5 years since I first saw it and I still talk about it to countless people. Thank you Dustin for such a labored video. It was worth it. It's cemented into many brains all over the world !!!
When I turn invert axis in every game
Same. XD I can't do it "normally" and when I forget to turn off the intervted axis, people who play after me can't function. Just like I can't when they don't change it to inverted. 😅 😅 😅
This is actually a great example. I once played a game when I was younger with inverted y axis and you couldn't change it. Now I can't play not inverted
@@IntensePeppers You can! It just takes some time of being awkward af and after some time you won't be able to tell if you have it set the old way or new way
@@maxinac Seconded, I at least every new game I play, I practice normal and inverted controls and restarting back to the prologue until its natural before continuing through. So every time I get back into it, even after a long time not playing it, it's still there and didn't notice it until I was going through the options optimizing sound and brightness and noticing the inverted is on or not.
Exactly
The best Smarter Every Day, ever. I think this sequence of experiments and observations could kick off a whole new scientific discipline.
Tom Nally Thanks for such an amazing compliment.
SmarterEveryDay Came here to say the same thing, have watched most of your video Destin, and absolutely love what you are doing, Veritasium aswell, but without a doubt this is one of the best videos you have done. Keep it up.
Tom Nally the field already exists, but I don't think that it has looked at this before. People have been studying the ability of the human motor system to adapt to novel dynamic environments for a while now. www.jneurosci.org/content/14/5/3208.short At this point it is pretty clear that the human motor system uses a combination of feedforward, feedback, and impedance control to solve most motor tasks. Humans are predictors. We rely primarily on feedforward control because the slow conduction rates of neurons introduce delays that make feedback control untenable. We can't use just feed forward control though because it can't handle unpredictable disturbances. To deal with the unpredictable we rely on feedback control via short reflexes and impedance control (which is kind of a physical, squishy version of feedback control if you think about it). The closest thing to Destin's experiment that I can think of if this experiment by Etienne Burdet www.nature.com/nature/journal/v414/n6862/abs/414446a0.html In his experiment he studied peoples ability to adapt to an unstable environment. He told people to reach from one point to another along a straight path, and then used a robot to push his subjects arms in the same direction as their deviations from the path. You can kind of think of this as a negative spring. This probably wouldn't be too different from trying to ride Destin's bike in a straight line if you were able to instantly start at full speed. In Burdet's experiment people were able to adapt to the environment, but not by creating an inverse model of the environment. Instead, they used impedance control. Basically, they made their arms so stiff that the positive feedback forces from the robot never got large enough to push them very far off centre. The crazy thing is that Destin did clearly create a feedforward model of the bike. You can tell that this is true because he had a "mirror" after-effect. The fact that he continued his learned behaviours beyond the point where they at which no longer useful shows that he was not acting on feedback, but was rather relying on a slow-changing predictive model. What this means is that Destin and some welders just one-upped a highly revered nature paper. ... I give up. The thing with his kid was interesting too. Kids typically adapt to novel dynamic environments at rates that are comparable to those of adults. jn.physiology.org/content/90/2/703.short However, they actually tend to be a bit more clutztastic than adults. This is partially because their nervous systems are not fully baked and they are more prone to the random effects of neuromuscular noise. However, I doubt that childhood motor learning has been tested for a problem as complicated as the backwards bike. Maybe children do learn complex tasks faster. Maybe the added noise actually accelerates the learning process. Sometimes noise can cause learning systems to explore regions of the solution space that they would not explore otherwise. I'm not sure that I accept "kids are just more plastic" as a sufficient answer tough since they generally learn tasks at the same rate as adults.
I totally agree to "The best Smarter Every Day, ever" comment Tom Nally.
justinhabit or maybe his son learned faster because he didn't have as far to fall.
I had first watched this when my mother showed me this video when if firsy came out years ago. This morning, my church pastor showed me this in church during a sermon he preached. It's amazing how you shared about why knowledge isnt the same as understanding
I had the opportunity to try riding a bike set up like that as a child. It was quite manageable by crossing my arms. My muscle memory had me pulling and pushing the correct direction to maintain balance and ride where I liked.
When you switch y axis on the controller
Thats exactly what I thought of
Kek
HAHAHAHAHA😂😂😂 I felt this one bruh
I play invert and have sinced good ol days.
I invert look aswell , i think its because im used to flying rc planes and it has programmed my brain that way now for playing video games , lol
I love your parenting! "Git up, you got it!" Perfect!
That's what most parents do
I was being really sincere. I know many parents who coddle their kids. I'm glad he's being a real dad, letting his kids had their own lives and letting them learn from their own mistakes.
Right, he wasnt like "oh my god you fell, my poor baby!!!!" Thats good parenting there
+TheVintageRomance I need to unlearn that myself... my little boy is almost a year now, and I can't help but pick him up and smooch his tiny head whenever he bumps it. The boy's gotta learn.
+highks wow..... so true though.
This was the first video that made me interested in your channel. You're amazing man.
incredible!!! Loved that quote"knowledge doesn't equal understanding" ...and curious to know are you able to pedal both types of bike alternately ?
*when you accidentally changed the the controller to invert controls*
-the-
TRUU
takes me 2 minutes to get going and 5 minutes to fully adapt.
when you make up go down and down go up
My brother and I couldn’t figure out what was up with my brothers controls and it turned out invert view was on and we didn’t t know. He’s been using invert since.
"I'm two levels deep in this" lol
老千层师了
@@franklyfrank123 你以为我在第一层，其实我在第三层
@@fishchips____8396 How are you able to access KZhead in China ?
why are there random chinese replies?
tr1xz VPN’s :)
Wow. One of the best ever Dustin! Thank you for the wisdom impartation!
This has got to be one of the top videos on youtube. Great work, thank you for all the great content you are one of the reasons I decided to become an engineer.
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...
Wait, that's actually a good idea.
You'll never steal someone's bike AGAIN?
Never be able to steal anyone’s bike
Yo hawks wth are doing here lol
They'll just take the wheels.
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.
Not sure I believe that, the real way to ride a standard bike is counter steering anyway which means turning away from the direction you want to go
@@supasexystick Make sure you wear a helmet whenever you get a chance to try it.....rude awakening coming your way sir.
@@MegaFunflyer you're already doing it even though don't realize it. Kids struggle when they're given training wheels because going from a tricycle or training wheels where turn right go right works to a regular bicycle is the same thing as this. I used to race motorcycles, you can't just lean. Your weight to get it to turn. There's an old boring keath code? Book/ video that goes over the mechanics.
@@supasexystick I feel the same way, I am a trackday rider and think that once you have a full understanding of how to turn something on 2 wheels that it would simplify this much more. It would be the same as trying to drive a car with the steering reversed, just simply think turn left to go right. But on a bike it would just be thinking turn right to go right.
@@supasexystick Counter steering is only needed at higher speeds which you would only really achieve with a motorbike, rather than a standard bike.
Destin, man! Since I found your site 3 days ago, I have been binge-watching your channel. I've watched everything from helicopter crash training to your Obama interview and the gamut of options in between. I'm 55 and my favourite book when I was a kid in the 70s, was "How Things Work". You have rekindled that curiosity in me like no other youtube channel. Kudos to your insights, easy to understand delivery, your graphics and interesting topics you cover. WoW!
saying that welders are often smarter than engineers gets you my sub for life ! you rock!
4:24 - Kid falls over, "get up, you got it". It seems a little callous at first, but I actually think that's an awesome bit of parenting right there. Teaching the kid not to freak out at a minor set back or misshap. Good on you, Destin.
Cool that your praising him or whatever but at the same time no one has any right to judge anyone else's form of parenting
@@jiggyjfishing219 Yes, we do. Poor parenting creates bad people, which f*cks up OUR society. You're not living in an isolated universe where your actions doesn't affect others, you know.
I just laughed lmao
@@jiggyjfishing219 Only in a world where kids are property. I know we are used to property-based thinking so much. Let's get over it and use best practises and admit to truths on what's good for humans,
Is it possible he did it for his brutality no no he is not brutal
I would love to see this bike in a theif bait prank video!!!
Ben Spears LMFAO
Ben Spears I was thinking about that
LOLOL
the if
They'd pick up the bike and throw it in the back of their truck here...
Wow, this is the first youtube video that I find so fascinating that I have to watch it again directly
“It looks like im lying, you think I’m lying don’t you?” Yeah, “I’m not lying” lmao
"I did something that damaged my mind. It happened on the streets of Amsterdam.." Oh dear...
I was leaving a Coffee shop, when all of a sudden...
Now that’s funny
LOL NICE ONE
Haha
don't do nbome kids
hi
yep
Nope i have a brain 2+2=1
@@Emporer-hz1dd genius
I thought the pedaling would be backwards but still with forward movement of the bicycle.
@@sigsputnik1 me too
We had to analyze this video for my AP Language Arts class and the whole class was amazed!
I find this fascinating in particular to how it would affect people who play normal/inverted controls in video games, and whether 1. that translates across to this & 2. if so whether the decision to make controls regular/inverted is some kind of by-product of the way that we've developed pathways in our brain for motor function - great video!
I'm an inverted Y-axis player in certain games, not all of them. In the games where I prefer to invert the Y-axis, I cannot play on non-inverted controls. I strongly believe that it makes no difference for "inverters". I don't think I'd be able to ride that bike, because I can't play non-inverted, and I never managed to re-wire myself to be able to do it. A lot of the time was in multiplayer on console, my friends just assumed it was me using it as an excuse for being bad, but the truth was that there was a drastic difference in both comfort and level of play that even they couldn't deny. With the bike I'm sure this is the same. I've spent a long time being I think an above average bike rider, and I'm pretty sure I'd have more difficulty than Destin adapting to an inverted bike. So I would say "no" to 1., and I'm not sure what you mean by 2. but basically, the way I ride a bike is exactly the same way anyone rides a bike, so with that inverted bike, I would have the exact same problem as everyone else. Destin is correct : I cannot ride that bike, because the way I've been riding a bike my whole life was the same way he did, the same way everyone did.
Oh man, I'd love to try riding that bike!
+Seth's Bike Hacks If you thought the swing bike was weird enough.
Same
Ay Seth
you could possibly just wheele it everywhere ;D
+joni ha Probably not, cause in a regular wheelie you move the wheel to keep balance
I was following along, laughing and learning, and then he says: "I had set out to prove that I could free my brain from a cognitive bias, but at this point I'm pretty sure that all I've proved is that I can only redesignate that bias." Wow. Gut check. Thank you Destin, great video.
My man tried to achieve awakening in the middle of the video
The same story happens to a lot of people on XBOX and Nintendo Switch controllers.
Heh, I remember when I had occasional times tripping over that. Almost never happens to me now! (I still use both controllers)
What a wholesome and informative video. Thanks, Destin!
Can we just appreciate that he went all the way to Amsterdam to ride a normal bike 😀😂😂😂😂
Yeah.. Because flight ticket is cheaper than a bike.. Right..? Haha
He is so smart we cant understand him 😂😂
I really hope you're joking, he was already there for another reason. He didn't go there just to ride a bike...
@Desolations102 😂😂
He went there to ride a bike ? Yeah, right ! Some cafes nearby can help him ride any bike :P
pretty sure the people in Amsterdam were just like: "here goes another stoner who can't ride his bike"
Yeah, probably thought he just came from a cafe.
as a former dope smoker i can attest that riding a bicycle while stoned is not really a problem. remembering where you are going can very well be though.
😂😂
That was my thought too
Hahaha. See that's how the one dimensional mind works. It's the opposite bro. Puts you in the zone! 😉You see all the kids in NYC riding on one wheel? They all stone brah 4 real!
I'm a big fan of yours! I was very surprised today to have been shown this video in orientation for my new job. I'm going to be working 1km underground in a potash mine. They used this video to demonstrate how hard it can be to change your way of thinking, and to break old habits. Just thought I'd share that with you
Your each and every video is gold, Destin
Yeah, man. I've done some damage to my mind on the streets of Amsterdam, myself.
you have the same name of that guy who died in a tesla with autopilot
+hey7328 get off my paper
+viperz888 I got k300 if you want..
Joshua Brown xD
This bike is a good way to make sure no one steals it because they can't ride it.
Well they would just carry it then unfortunately :D
+1 because can't +2
Bart Snel It stops people from picking it up?
This sounds like a great prank video idea.
A really good idea!!!
I think this is very similar (but probably more difficult) to driving on the left side of the road and then switching to the right again. As a German living in the UK I got to do this change often and the more I do the switch, the easier it becomes to change between the two.
This had me smiling the entire video. Thanks destin
I think people who have never driven a bike can drive this bike.
drive a bike? wtf
@@TheCerealArsonist ride i meant 🤣
Duy Nguyễn Hữu Quang ok lol
First of all, they would still need to learn to ride a bike in the first place, which isn't so easy to do. But even then, I don't think that is true. It would be an interesting experiment though (since these bikes exist for quite some time, maybe someone even has done that). The movements are opposite to what you usually do, if you want to move somewhere you turn into that direction. So I still would expect it to be harder to do.
@@salia2897 I think you'll be really interested in counter-steering bikes, it's a mind boggling concept that comes naturally to seasoned riders. You literally turn right to go left and vice versa. Have a look around youtube for counter-steering techniques.
Guy cant ride a bike” Crowd” “LAUGHS HYSTERICALLY”
I was waiting for him to hand the bike over to some of the Amsterdam scoffers to try it and fail epically for some ridicule of their own, but noooo...
wtf does this comment even mean wtf is up with your grammar?
WOW THATS SO FUNNY
@@ChrisJones-ij3xp Did you not watch the video? That was a normal bike, they would not have had a problem.
You are using "" wronf
Fantástico e prático, incrível perceber como se dá a funcionalidade do nosso encéfalo.
I had the same kind of problem when I learned to pilot a sailplane. The rudder pedals were counter-intuitive: needed to push right to go right and left to go left. It was against my bicycle mindset and it took some time to train my brain to this new paradigm.
Destin: you can not ride this bike for more then ten feet Me an intellectual: * *does wheelie* *
You need momentum to do a wheelie
Hilwan Hamdi momentum is in the back wheel it’s not hard to do one from bring still
@@nathandias100 Sure, if you had the skill... 👍🏻
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
You are not explaining why you have to go all the way to Amsterdam to ride a normal bike. Editing is an art.
tax deduction
@@billgriner3754 ,lol.
He takes his family all around the world on business trips. It's legit.
It's amazing how this was 8 years ago and yet it feels like a video released yesterday. The same great production, the same great message. I tried riding one of these bikes and it's hard. The furthest I got was by riding in a circle and using the handlebars as a kind of lever to adjust roll. There was also a comment in here regarding what it must feel like when your brain is starting to get it. Well, if you're after that sensation and like electromobility, consider an EUC.
This video, i have to come back to it at least once a year, there is just something SO fascinating about this video... the lessons learned, the actual 'AH-HA!' moments when the brain clicks and realizes what its meant to do... its just sheer discovery in a video and this is what SED is all about! thanks Destin! hopefully you have a follow up of some sorts of this video as I found every little bit about it extremely interesting! great job!
You should try switching back and forth, seeing if you get quicker and quicker at relearning, until maybe you can switch between them seamlessly.
I suspect that would work
I was thinking basically the same thing... how long would it take to switch back and forth. If he switched more often, would the “readjust” time shorten each time?
This
I've found after three years of switching which side of the road I drive on monthly (living in two countries) I no longer notice the switch so think it's possible. But like he said sometimes you lose aren't focusing and for just a second your brain slips into the old default, it's very peculiar
About a summer I guess. Learn how to ride backwards bike right (like Mike Boyd did) and switch between bikes every day after a stroll. Then maybe at the end of the summer you'd learn how to switch real fast
"They think I'm dumb but I'm actually two levels deep into this...." ... my entire life.
About a year ago I had to start giving my son credit for that. He's usually on the next level but it sounds like an off-the-cuff comment.
This is one of the most amazing videos I've ever seen. Thank you!
This is incredible. Awesome video. Up the ante and have the pedals go backwards for forward movement.
I'm getting me one of them, no one's ever gonna steal that thing and get very far!
Chris Simpkins genius idea
Chris Simpkins +1
nice
I would love to see a social experiment KZheadr buying one and seeing if people try to steal it and then realize they can't ride it
They could just pick it and walk away or roll it away though.
This is why people who play games with inverted camera controls are monsters
duo1666 feels, man
I play invert look....because the FPS games I had as a kid were invert look by default.
Actually no. If you're used to this type of configuration, it's just feel natural. The same thing happens with you when make the camera act accordingly to your moviments. If you're not used to this, it will feel really weird.(Like when he tried to ride the normal bike in the final)
@@Kiskadee652 I see the stick as my head. If I move it foward and down, I look down. If I pull it back and up, I look up.
@@Kiskadee652 Incase i wasnt clear: People that use inverted camera are monsters and dont deserve videogames.
I love working with smart welders. They love to challenge engineers, kinda getting back at the crazy designs we make they figure out for us.
Dustin, I meant to post this a couple of years ago. I use this video in my classrooms and lectures to show embedded bias and learned responses. Basically muscle memory for the brain. My audience is parents and caregivers for children suffering from brain traumas and other related issues.
I also damaged my mind on the streets of Amsterdam. Only that had nothing to do with bikes.
This CRACKed me up
"I'm two levels deep into this" lmfao
lol
Haha
Inception
One of the greatest things I've ever seen! Thank you!
one of your best episodes, touched my soul for some reason that i don't know it
So if it took 8 months for the backwards steering to "click" and then 20 minutes for the normal steering to "click" again, how much more practice would you need to be able to instantly switch between normal steering and backwards steering without any problems?
well everyone learns at a different rate, plus it depends how serious you take it, how often you practice, how much a day, etc., so there's no one answer
I build one of these bike abd it took me about 20minutes to be able to ride it, not verry smooth, 3day after i can ride it quite smooth and almost go whereever a will, it's totaly easy for me to switch between the reverse and the normal bike, but still have to be very concentrated for the reverse one ;) julien
+Julien Lehmann post vid pls
+Adam G. i'm not at home now but i'l do it in one month aproxymatly ;)
Julien Lehmann You have 31 days
This strangely reminds me of lightning McQueen when doc tells him to turn right to go left. Lol
THANK YOU! Or maybe I should say no thank you. Because in opposite world, maybe that really means thank you.
j luke Hypernova Yuriy confusiious
Of course I live in opposite world !
You should've said "if you catch my drift". Hahaha 😂
what an amazing video again !!! keep it up man
That's still one of the greatest videos of this channel!