{"id":136857,"date":"2016-03-11T13:32:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T13:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/?p=136857"},"modified":"2016-05-03T07:58:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T07:58:10","slug":"the-backwards-brain-bicycle-that-nobody-can-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2016\/03\/11\/the-backwards-brain-bicycle-that-nobody-can-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Backwards Brain Bicycle\u2019 That Nobody Can Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There\u2019s a bike that nobody seems to be able to ride.\u00a0 Dustin at SmarterEveryDay took this normal-looking bike to conferences and university seminars all over the place, but nobody seemed to be able to ride it.\u00a0 Why is this?<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<lite-youtube videoid=MFzDaBzBlL0 params=\"enablejsapi=1\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/MFzDaBzBlL0\/maxresdefault.webp');\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<p>The \u2018Backwards Brain Bicycle\u2019 looks just like a regular bike, doesn\u2019t it?\u00a0 There\u2019s more than meets the eye, though. It turns out that Barnie, a friend of Dustin\u2019s, made this special bicycle as a challenge for Dustin, who has won awards such as University of Alabama\u2019s Engineer of the Year.\u00a0 The key is that when you turn the handlebar to the left, the wheel goes to the right, and when you turn the handlebar to the right, the wheel goes left.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds simple enough, right?\u00a0 That\u2019s what he thought, but he just ended up falling off the bike. Being intrigued, he then took this bike to conferences and university seminars in various places and discovered that nobody else could ride it either. Why? As Dustin explains in his YouTube video, once you have a rigid way of thinking in your head, sometimes you cannot change it, even if you really want to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2016\/03\/8748485.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-136860\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2016\/03\/8748485-600x316.png\" alt=\"It turns out that Barnie, a friend of Dustin\u2019s, made this special bicycle as a challenge for Dustin, who has won awards such as University of Alabama\u2019s Engineer of the Year.  The key is that when you turn the handlebar to the left, the wheel goes to the right, and when you turn the handlebar to the right, the wheel goes left.\" width=\"600\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So he practiced for five minutes a day to see if he could learn to ride this strange bike.\u00a0 After eight months, he finally got the hang of it, just to realize that he could no longer ride a normal bicycle\u2026\u00a0\u00a0 As he puts it, he had set out trying to prove he could free his brain from cognitive bias, but ended up just proving he could only redesignate that bias.\u00a0 Food for thought!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a bike that nobody seems to be able to ride.\u00a0 Dustin at SmarterEveryDay took this normal-looking bike to conferences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":136859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[334,330],"tags":[],"global-categories":[],"class_list":["post-136857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-socialising-and-culture","category-urban-cycling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The \u2018Backwards Brain Bicycle\u2019 That Nobody Can Ride - \u0160koda We Love Cycling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There\u2019s a bike that nobody seems to be able to ride. 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