Most People Don't Know How Bikes Work

most people don't know how bicycles actually work so we modified this bike to prove it this video was sponsored by kiwiko more about them at the end of the show when you're riding a bike and you want to turn left i think most people just imagine you turn the handlebars to the left this is a bike to test whether that is true and it's made by my friend rick here and he's got a radio controller that allows him to lock out the steering to one side so what he's going to do is as i'm biking he's going to pick whether i can turn either to the left or to the right so go for it i'm giving it a left turn it pulls the pin out but you can see that you can still fully steer after i've pulled the pin out i've armed it there's where it locks okay now the the that's when your led comes on that just says turn that way turn left yeah and if i try to turn right can't i can't and if i try to turn left you can i can't so the question is can i successfully execute this left-hand turn should we give it a shot i mean he's not going to tell me whether it's left or right so i have to look at the led to know which way i can still turn you let me know when you're ready okay that was meant to be a turn to the right but there was no chance in hell left right all right flip right right right god if you look closely you can see the problem here i'm trying to turn right but steering that way puts me off balance if you could ride this bicycle you would find it's impossible to turn left without first steering right and it's impossible to turn right without first steering left this seems wrong i think most people believe you turn a bike simply by pointing the handlebars in the direction you want to go after all this is how you drive a car point the front wheels any direction you like and the car just goes that way but the difference with a bicycle is steering doesn't just affect the direction you're headed it also affects your balance imagine you want to make a right ...