Reverse steering bicycle

Well, it was made by a friend of my dad's many years ago, but i could
see that a headstock from another bike had been welded onto the front.
Then along with a couple of cogs welded in the right places, you have a
reverse steering bicycle!

Here's a diagram

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The red shows the original bike. the green shows what was welded to the
front. and you can see the placement of the two grey cogs, to get the
reverse steering.

Oh, and it worked fine. My dad and I would take it to charity events,
charge people £1 to have a go, and if they managed to ride it, they won
£5.

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haha that is so cool.

that's going on my list of things to make !!!!

what did it ride like? did you stack it really bad for the first few
hours?

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My dad made one of those and I learned how to ride it. He made it
differently because he couldn't get cogs, he used two rods going back
to a lever, each one atatched to a separate headstock. The mechanism
was kinda loose and sloppy but it worked. He had a chalange that if
anyone could ride it the length of our driveway he would give them
$100. Nobody won...

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Once your brain figures out that instead of streering into the direction
you are falling, you steer the opposite way, it's fairly easy to ride.
It didn't take me too long (compared with first riding a bicycle, or
learning to ride a uni) to master, and yes, there were a fair few
faceplants into the grass in those first few hours :o

At the charity event, no-body won the £5, but it was great to see the
looks of deep concentration, and even some of the techniques people
would try. Like putting left hand on right handlebar, and right hand on
left handlebar. There were the few that managed a couple of
revolutions, but got no further.

I've heard of the same kinda thing but with cars, at a specially
designed test track. The trouble is, if you are driving home from
something like that, it could be dangerous....

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i wanna make one.

the only thing i'll have trouble with is those cogs, i'd have no idea
how to get/make some.

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A busking lady had one of these in the city where I lived, you paid $10
to have a go, and if you could ride more than 10m you got $50 bucks.

Pretty much all you had to do was keep it as straight as possible and
you won 😄 (Which I did) There were some hell nasty bails though

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iridemymuni said:

i wanna make one.

the only thing i'll have trouble with is those cogs, i'd have no idea
how to get/make some.

Hmmm, you'd only need a couple of small cogs, or you could even cut one
in half, and use each side back to back then.

Try find an old gearbox or engine, there might be cogs that you can use
in there. Don't go removing cogs from a neighbour's car though :p

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They had one of those at the fair last year, although you had to zig zag
through cones. if you made it, you won an electric skooter.

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MattyJ said:

Is there anybody else that can ride one of these? It's where you turn
the handle bars left, and the front wheel steers to the right and vice
versa. I learnt to ride one years ago, about the same time I learnt to
ride a unicycle. They're really fun, and the home-made one I learnt to
ride didn't have any brakes. It was a converted road bike, which was
painted bright orange.

I don't have the bike anymore, but one day I might make one.

They sell one on UDC (uk). http://tinyurl.com/jr3q8

Hey, does anyone know why this one on UDC has the front headtube at
all? It looks like it is all contained in the box structure, why would
it muddy up the looks with the front tube?

Or is it left there so that you can move the forks to the front one,
and have a normal bike? I guess that would be kinda cool.

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sorry if i am missing osmething but why would you want a bike like this

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Mainly for the challenge, and just for fun. Like a giraffe unicycle,
it's only really good for show and fun.

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Me and my freind made one and brought it to a party and it was cool
looking cause it was turned into a chopper and a drunk guy was all
"Sweet bike man can I try" unaware of it being reverse streering we
let him ride oh man that was funny.

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it'd be fun to ride that in the city. No one would be able to steal it.

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Seager said:

it'd be fun to ride that in the city. No one would be able to steal it.

I once took it to school to let people have a go. Of course, there were
the trouble makers from the year above me, so they came along to have a
go, and one tried to ride of with it. Oh how he failed. I just walked
along next to him as he tried to ride off with it as fast as he could.
He gave up in the end, and him and his buddies sulked off having failed
😄

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AscenXion said:

Hey, does anyone know why this one on UDC has the front headtube at all?
It looks like it is all contained in the box structure, why would it
muddy up the looks with the front tube?

Or is it left there so that you can move the forks to the front one,
and have a normal bike? I guess that would be kinda cool.

The handle bars drive the front tube, which cog drives back to the
'normal' tube, the reverse of the diagram posted earlier in this
thread. This would give more normal bike handling than extending the
wheel base and altering other geometry by moving the position of the
headset.

I've driven a reverse steer 4x4, it's surprisingly easy to get through
even quite a tight slalom course on your first try if you get your
brain in gear before hand.

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kington99 said:

The handle bars drive the front tube, which cog drives back to the
'normal' tube, the reverse of the diagram posted earlier in this
thread. This would give more normal bike handling than extending the
wheel base and altering other geometry by moving the position of the
headset.

I've driven a reverse steer 4x4, it's surprisingly easy to get through
even quite a tight slalom course on your first try if you get your
brain in gear before hand.

I understand how it works, but it doesn't need the other head tube at
all. Handlebars turn a cog, which turns another cog connected to the
original head tube and forks. It's all contained in the box. Why the
need to have a clunky looking additional head tube, unless it is to
swap it, and make it normal steering...

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yeah the stem is on backwards, connected to the front headtube

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stuckinwheeliemode said:

yeah the stem is on backwards, connected to the front headtube

I have no idea what you mean by this...

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This weekend I thought it would be something interesting to try so I
convinced my dad to give me a hand making one. It works quite well and
after about 45min of practice I can ride fairly steady.
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