O.T. Bicycle Riding

Moonlite37 · Jul 2, 2016

Would it be possible to learn to coast a bicycle rolling backward ? I know the steering geometry is all wrong.

Steve A W · Jul 2, 2016

I remember doing it as a kid, and I do remember it usually didn't end well.

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old · Jul 2, 2016

Simple answer is yes it can be done and has been done by many but it is not an easy thing to learn how to do. Shoot they even have bikes out now where you can pedal forward or backwards

Janicholson · Jul 2, 2016

Yes. We had a bike with a locked up coaster brake that could be ridden backwards sitting on the handle bars. It took a few hours to "learn" how, and was never more than a I can do it thing. Jim

OldFarmTractor · Jul 2, 2016

I might be able to do it if it had 3 or 4 wheels.

Geo-TH,In · Jul 2, 2016

As kids, we used to sit on handle bars and ride the bike forward while facing backwards. Not sure why you would want to coast backwards. Never done it. geo

Gary from Muleshoe · Jul 2, 2016

After several scraped elbows and kneesit can be mastered.

coshoo · Jul 2, 2016

And usually ended pretty quickly, too.

Stephen Newell · Jul 2, 2016

It could be done but why?

Moonlite37 · Jul 2, 2016

Kids do not need a reason! Dumbest kid in school could sit on seat and ride forward but I wondered about coasting backward. At the concrete plant kids wanted to ride the conveyor belts standing still but the belt had to move from front to back

3000OH · Jul 2, 2016

50 yrs ago, a wild & crazy farmer friend who loved us kids took a welder & torch to an old bike. He flipped it end for end - so that you pedaled the front wheel - and then remounted the handlebar above this new "front" wheel with some linkage to the back wheel for steering. But he also intentionally crossed the linkage so that the steering was reversed...turn right, go left. Like a reversed forklift, except that trying to pedal, lean, and steer at the same time sent all sorts of crossed signals to the brain. Lots of crashes & laughs. One kid got it mastered for about hundred ft. Good times, simple fun.

Brian G. NY · Jul 2, 2016

(quoted from post at 21:54:02 07/02/16) As kids, we used to sit on handle bars and ride the bike forward while facing backwards. Not sure why you would want to coast backwards. Never done it. geo

Geo,
I also used to ride a bicycle sitting on the handlebars when I was a kid.
I have done it many times since to "show-off" in front of the kids...and later the grandkids. It has probably been 5 or 6 years since I've done it and having just turned 75, it would probably not be wise to do it again! LOL

FBH44 · Jul 2, 2016

Don't think so, the conventional [ Campagnolo ] rear ratchet in the rear wheel will only free-wheel going forward, otherwise it wouldn't work at all.

JHH · Jul 3, 2016

(quoted from post at 15:05:38 07/02/16) Would it be possible to learn to coast a bicycle rolling backward ? I know the steering geometry is all wrong.

Possible if you try long enough. Reminded me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0

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