The Bicycle That Steers the Wrong Way
An engineer's welder friends build a bicycle that steers backwards—turn left, go right—and dare him to ride it. He expects minutes. It takes eight months!
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The bike is a simple hack: a pair of gears at the head tube so the handlebars turn the wheel the wrong way. That's the only change, and it's enough to make it unrideable by nearly everyone. Destin took it to conferences and offered $200 to anyone who could pedal it ten feet. Nobody collected.
His point isn't really about bikes. Knowing how something works and being able to do it live in different parts of your brain, and when they disagree, the doing wins. Eight months for him — not eight months of grinding, he's careful to say, just eight months. Watch how his six-year-old son gets it in two weeks.
Then stay for the ending in Amsterdam, where he tries to get back on a normal bike.
