cool

Cool

I'm not going to lie, the thought of you on stabilisers is utterly brilliant. Congrats on learning to ride.

And I'm glad you told me you crashed before I watched, so I know to watch the whole video. Thanks, Tom!

Tom again how many times do I have to tell you to stop time traveling

this is so funny

that's rad

And (kind of) a wingsuit!

Underrated

Hahaha

Great video and guidance Mike!

This video is definitely one of my favorite collabs on Tom's channel

This needs a Pin!

Really nice job on supporting him while giving him enough space to figure it out himself, well done buddy! 💪🏼

next, the reverse steering bike.... and more padding...

The oldest kid

Lolol

I was thinking the same thing 😂 he even held him by the shoulders and guided him. True fatherly moment

Such a nurturing parent

@talion more like the middle child (forgotten)

Tom Scott also learned to fly a jetpack, so you've got work to do. . .

Great 🎉

How's your experience so far?

@@surbhi_27 it was all good till he was accused of stealing bikes, now is learning not to drop soap

Congrats! 🎉

As a Dutch guy, I need to see this. Also, the city planning things you tell could probably work on Tom's channel!

@@lolgeertlol the script to my recent video about "the wrong way to set speed limits" originally started as a proposed guest video for Tom Scott's main channel that never panned out.

@@NotJustBikes wow that's some cool NJB lore

I wonder if he'd hate coaster brakes as much as I do! I love living in Amsterdam but Dutch bikes are not for me

yo Jason can you do a video about Münster? Many see this as the definitive bike-friendly German city, but is it?

2 miles should be a 30 to 40 minute walk. I used to walk 2.6 miles each way to my job and it took under an hour.

@@fabrisseterbrugghe8567 I don't know where OP and friends are from, but a lot of places have insufficient pedestrian infrastructure as well (sidewalks ending abruptly, huge multi-lane mult-directional (st)roads without crosswalks), so traveling by bike over car-centric infrastructure may have been preferential to braving the same route on foot.

2 miles, 2 hours? bro wtf 🤣

2 miles is a 1 hour trip max and that's if you take breaks.

@@NoMoreForeignWars you failed to consider that its a 2 mile commute both ways 🤦🏻‍♂️ 4 miles in 2 hours is still fairly slow though

Did you learn how to ride a bike yet?

Absolutely

Did you learn how to ride?

@@joakimberg7897 not yet... I promise that I'll learn by 1 year from now and give an update!

​@@bread8465Goodluck!!

Exactly my thought!

With how progression goes, sometime in September 2022, we’ll be seeing Tom Scott Plus The Queen in “Tom has never been the Prime Minister of England. Can The Queen teach him in an afternoon?”

Representing, of course, Yorkshire

@@Thebrooky12 *waits for Yorkshire chants*

@@GreatLordEli but it's one of those things if your parents or school never taught you it is unlikely that you will learn it as an adult.

Same, I watched that Veritasium video right before this one!

@@alexanderzieschang2664 also same

well it also will help a bit

Derek did explain that gyroscopic precession is at least partly responsible for the bike's tendency to right itself.

Hahah same!!

I always described it as utter freedom. I'm petrified of driving a car (I avoid it) but give me a bike and a properly fitted helmet and the world is mine to explore.

​@@kamicokrolockwait until you discover moterbikes 😯

Not even, Tom is More squeamish on a bike than any of those.

@@datdabdoe1417 i think its because most people who are watching know how to ride a bike but almost no one watching knows how to do any of those things,

7:21

Didnt notice, that was funny

Time?

9:58 Great video Tom! Really enjoyed

@@emab thank you

@@bigrealm8156 @5:06

Absolutely you can! Cycling is liberating. You might very much enjoy it, just find yourself a safe environment and a patient and calm teacher.

Get yourself someone who teaches it to you and shares your joy! Might still have this Video open, cause the guy had good tips. Best of luck and have fun! :)

Absolutely. You won't regret it.

It's really not that difficult! You just need to stick with it. People try for 5 minutes and say "can't do it" but they don't realise that all the people that do it without even thinking have been doing it for 20+ years.

I'm sure you can learn it. I believe in you :)

Is it possible to self learn it?

@@crazymadstriker766 Absolutely, but it will almost certainly take a bit longer. Learning as an adult takes longer than when you are a kid as well. When Destin from SmarterEveryDay was learning the backwards brain bicycle, he said he practiced for 5 or 10 minutes per day, for like two weeks. Same thing when I learned to ride without my hands steering. Just commit to starting slow, and not giving up. It isn't going to be super easy or quick or fun, but it is definitely possible, and the rewards are great.

@@crazymadstriker766 Yep. learning new motor skills isn't like learning a new language. Contrary to the previous response adults actually can learn how to do these kind of skills as fast or faster than children BUT children are less cautious of hurting themselves and will jump in to it quicker. Adults are generally more cautious (maturity and life experience) and thus may take a little longer learning new tasks that may lead to injury when done incorrectly.

Same

Another Dutch here! I completely agree with you; hopes he keeps cycling enough to not unlearn cycling again.

He said he apparently did ride when he was younger.

I'm not enormously surprised, since I've met people who don't know. Well, one. But I taught her how to ride my old mountain bike and gave it to her as a reward. For me, it was a way of paying back a friend I had in highschool who taught me how to ride a skateboard and then gave me one of his.

For every thing I know how to do well, there are at least a thousand that I am completely inept at. I find that such thoughts keep me sensible. :)

If you look at his whole channel there is now a multitude of areas he has a higher-than-average skill of now so I think it makes up for it.

@@naverilllang I mean, in the end he's just 31:14 minutes behind

I had the exact same feeling. 👍

I just kept having to tell myself I was not watching a dad teach his kid. It has the same sort of energy. :)

Came here to say much the same. Having got my youngest riding very recently I recognise a few parts of the process!

Yes, I was smiling like an idiot...

Well said. Nice to have another cyclist.

Hi Ed!

Tom Scott Unicycling - come on 2022 bring the one wheel action!

Yaaas, love your channel dude!

we want tim alive! haha

Love your videos

For real. I wish I had a bike half as nice.

To be honest, I feel that bike actually made it harder to learn. Mountain bikes and similar bikes are usually more nervous in their reaction. Depending on the frame geometry some bikes are much easier to ride (where you can easily ride without hands on the bar) than others. My road bike is super easy to keep the balance on (though I wouldn't use a road bike to teach somebody due to its seating position).

@@astorMorisson I think the bike being a full sus might have made a difference. Maybe with the shock locked out it might be easier for a beginner to learn. Although the slack head angle of a mountainbike should make the bike more stable when moving. Wider bars probably helped too, due to providing more control to the wheel instead of having it go everywhere in a panic.

I'm envious of the fox 36 suspension... My stumpjumper has fox 35, though so I can't even complain

Cries in 100$ MTB

seeing two grown men get as excited as I felt when i taught my friend how to ride a bike as a kid was wonderful

Mike too bro hes a great teacher.

And "Tom makes himself giddy riding with the Red Arrows", but slightly different energy

I love that is is unintentionally implying that blacksmithing is something we all do regularly

@@jeravogel Yea and I do aerobatics all the time

He's right on track to be a normal human one of these days

Dammit, spoiler

@@XDarkGreyX Spoiler: Tom has balls.

5:05 Aaaa

There are bike seats made for men. They have a strategic depression in the seat located where men would find them very handy.

That's the second time on this channel Tom has been very aware of his balls causing potential discomfort.

Omg yes!!!!! That's the follow up video we NEED!

Well put ❤

Equal parts confidence and humility

Just really delightful to watch someone learn a new skill like this

The most valuable thing you can know is how much you really do not know. Makes life so much more interesting.

When you are born in the Alps skiing is a basic skill when you are born in London or Paris it is not. Having a pair of sky at three helps. Having a bike at three helps too.

I'm always surprised when people say they can't swim, because here in Sweden it's mandatory to learn as a child and is a part of the school curriculum. You have to be able to swim at least 200 meters, of which at least 50 meters has to be on your back in order to pass gym class.

@@leetri its easier to do it on the back tbh

@doobie thats because your lungs are toward your back and while face down their flotation ability is the same but keeps your torso lower in the water. If floating on your back your lungs are actually under your heart and ribs and you're more stable. Plus you can lift your head to get breath without too much loss of float.

@@leetri I did not like swimming classes at all. I think the instance of teaching breaststroke held me back when it came to learning to swim, it was only with moving to front crawl which I found much easier to coordinate and avoided too much water in my face that I finally managed to swim. It might not be a perfect crawl, but it worked and worked well. It didn't help that the swimming teacher did all instructions standing up instead of laying down which made it much harder to wrap around in my head.

@@leetri Same in Norway, but even though I could swim (if not necessary well) as a toddler, I had to re-learn when I was ten due to a prolonged gap in my practice.

Learn something else, like roller skating or skate boarding or skiing or take the next 2 wheel step to a motorcycle, learning new skills is satisfying

@@rustyshackleford9632 You're dead right, fella!

Ive never learned and this made me feel so similarly- I cant wait to learn now! If it wasnt pouring rain and midnight I would be out trying literally right now

@@katwilliams5661 Yes Kathleen! Get a friend to give you a few lessons. Relax, look ahead and enjoy the ride!

To make you jealous i have yet to learn about how to ride a motorised two wheeler and how to drive a car. :>

you can do it bro

How's it gone

That's a nice perspective. As we reach a "pro" or advanced level in a skill, we tend to forget how far we've come to get there.

Bro I feel the same way with my drums and musics

Some people even cycle without hands. I never could.

@@Ardjano234 i just learnt that about a month ago, the trick Is to take your hands off longer and longer until it works

@@Ardjano234 I've found that it's easiest on mountain bikes with wide tires, since they're more stable and stay straight longer, due to the wide tires.

How long it took you to learn

@@nisreenadnan8367 a couple of hours with a patient coach, bought a bike right after and went every morning.

Then add an audience! Now that's scary!

This is how I feel about skateboarding. It’s really cool to see people push themselves and succeed

I've done this with 3 of my kids and they were all successfully riding on their own within 30 min. The trick was finding a medium hill so they didn't get going too fast to begin with.

same for me, but i think when you are smaller its a much bigger effort to spin the crank so the hill helps more drastically

My older sister gave me a push from top of a small hill. Got the hang of balancing instantly. Tried to turn, crashed, then instantly knew how to turn. Still at it more than 50 years later. Was 9 years old when I learned. Sister decided I needed to learn to ride.

I had stabilisers and still crashed a few times I learned how to properly ride when one of the stabilisers fell off

This is what happened to me, except a macadamia tree was waiting at the other end for me

That is strange ! Generally we say : when you know how to bike it is for life you never forget. Swimming is the same. Had something happened, did you hit a wall at three and woke up three months later, did you have some trauma at five with water and stop swimming.

@@aquarius4953.

I think this might apply to the learning of anything

It's intuition and muscle memory

@marcoscolga24 I mean bike riders should watch out for traffic laws and road hazards too, but I get your point

this might be weird but by any chance dutch?

And I can't drive (never will, weird vision) and won't learn to bike (never will, bad balance and weird vision). But I have about a zillion craft hobbies 🙂

@@steinschwarz4674 Nope, German. Not dying in traffic as a bike rider is a bit more of a challenge here.

@@hammerth1421 it may be more of a challenge than in Germany due to the poor infrastructure, but it's still far far smaller challenge than people think. Cycling, even in the UK, is a safe activity (injuries per hour on a bike etc.), I think you'd have to cycle something like 300,000 miles to statistically be likely to die riding a bike (logically, most people would be old and die long before that!!).

@@ridefree4076 Don't forget that common sense reduces the risk by a lot. Having lights, a helmet, and just acting in a predictable way (like when driving) can go a long way.

So it took 30 years to forget it

@@kaikart123 Write it down!

and swimming. i forgot how to swim. still can’t 😂

@@stegothedino that’s not good

@@kaikart123 So 29 is the limit...

Being a child is literally needed for a childhood, unless the saying goes "you're never too old to act like a child" yes it is

Wise

@@Apudurangdinya The point is that one is stopping us from not feeling the endless wonder and curiosity we had in childhood, "never too old to act like a child" has a completely different meaning.

"with all the fears and cynicism and reality" bruh what i thought that was something you always had

@@worldprops333 "reality" for a kid is often a small isolated bubble world with twisted concepts and no perspective.

:)

Max Box is alive???

get good get lmaobox

You mean Old Goosebump Arm!

Everyone falls off a bike

@@alanhillyard1639 "Why do we fall sir? So we can learn to pick ourselves up"

I was considered a slow learner as a child. It took my family a while to teach me to tie my shoelaces and learn how to tell time. It wasn't till years later I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Thats why learning to do those simple tasks took me so long. It was a huge relief finding out why I had difficulty learning. There are many reasons why people don't learn certain things.

@@alanhillyard1639 Yup. Biking on hard-packed snow without winter tyres certainly wasn’t my brightest idea. Neither was trying to turn onto the main road below the hill where I live at speed (be a the brakes were in need of some maintenance) on a freezing but snow-free morning when there was quite a lot of loose gravel on the asphalt. (Don’t worry, I didn’t crash into anything, just fell because I lost traction during the turn - both times, though not the same turn.)

@@alanhillyard1639 Oh, I know, I fell off it literally the next day, but the difference, this time, was that I got it. When I was a kid, I was nowhere near learning how to balance the damn thing.

That's a mental image I'm never getting out of my head. Thanks!

In a year remind me or I’ll remind you, I don’t think I will

And traversing Britain with his motorbike and jetpack

how can anyone think this is cool? its embarrassing and cringeworthy

@@TheWeardale1 how is watching someone learn a skill not cool?

@@TheWeardale1 ratio then

@@TheWeardale1 It's like learning to swim. A lot of adults don't know how to swim and it's the same as riding a bicycle. Learning is always cool.

Have you seen Victoria Coren Mitchell learn to do it? It's a thing of beauty

I honestly this is one of the best videos Tom has ever made.

My great grandmother learned how to swim at age 80 or so! Never stop learning and you’ll stay young!

This "brave" is being tossed around so much it has no meaning. You're brave for being alive, brave for walking, brave for talking, brave brave brave. This isn't brave in my eyes, what's brave is something that can risk your life, driving a car into another loaded with explosives because you're a stunt devil? Brave. Astronaut? Brave. Beating speed records? Brave. Wingsuit flying? Paragliding? Base jumping? Fast downhill riding with the bike? Racing? Fighting? Being a soldier? Brave Learning to ride a bike at 5km/h over grass? No not so much. Of course this is just my perspective, I find the word is tossed around and thus loses its meaning. Doesn't mean it's right.

@@sacr3 Doing something even though it is scary and embarassing? That’s the very definition and meaning of brave. And even if it wasn’t, why be a grinch about it? Go do something fun instead of spoiling someone else’s.

@@zl4518 I disagree, a UFC fighter faces extreme bouts of pain for both entertainment as well as money. Admitting to something is brave? Well, let's agree to disagree I suppose since we both have our own viewpoints. It's no wonder in my eyes we have such a sensitive nation if simply saying "I can't ride a bike" is comparable to a pilot landing his plane in water due to a bird strike.

I'm just thinking how I just pushed my kids on their little bikes - "there you go!" Learning as a little less risk aware person is better- bravo tom for picking this up!

That mtb is probably more expensive than my motorcycle

@@Daniel-dj7fh For real.

@@sarahprunierlaw9147 At most with a helmet, but probably without that even.

Absolutely. Een standaard fiets = much easier

Good job dude. Welcome in the biking community

Love it 💪🏼

Absolute unit

Go you!

👍👍👍

other than Tom. Riding a bike was the last thing on his list of things left to learn

Agree 100%. The coffee episode has the same energy, and I love it!

You have to know something about something or you couldn't tie your shoes?! Oops... Wrong channel

Ghost ride the whip

There were competitions to prove how bikes stay up by themselves

When i was a kid i used to ride as fast as possible, just to step off and let the bike go on its own. We even had a dirt pile against a wall and let the bike do backflips on its own by bouncing off the wall.

I used to jump off the back of my bike and see it riding on for a few more feet

you should see a ghost motorcycle they can got for miles

I'm terribly sorry i cannot be there in person to shout as loudly at every stage as Mike did, but consider this your virtual push in the back to get you cycling. (((push))) Good luck!

actually it would have been a really good experiment, to see how someone learning from scratch would find it.

That would be a cool idea

I think SmarterEveryday did exactly that

and then, he still would learn as he doesn't know anything else. Normal people are just 100% muscle memory on normal bikes eventually. I haven't ridden a bicycle for 10+ years, but happily step on and drive away (but maybe dutch genes give a + on bicycle driving :) ) Tom wouldn't know anything else, so probarly learns just as fast on the reverse bike compared to normal bike. But then when he steps on a normal bike he has a problem.

@@kanarie93 Being so new to the concept, he might just go "ok this one works in reverse" and go on with it without even thinking that was odd.

Yes, that's very much true. Teaching your kid to ride a bike is a wonderful experience.

15:15 seeing your kid ride off into the sunset.. *proud parent sounds*

I taught my youngest to ride yesterday, and I felt exactly the same as this

6:50

I think it was the camerawoman

@@wiley-harris-anderson I like to envision it being his mom.

XDDD

Yes!

I think when you've had to teach yourself loads of random things that have little carryover you humble yourself and realise how hard some things can be for others. Teaching people a load of random things might be a worthwhile thing for development.

@@hugodogobob I have always learned a lot more from teaching than from learning and I've learned everything from learning.

Agreed. I love Mike's videos, so having him as a guest on Tom's show is just phenomenal-they're both incredibly personable, great communicators, and have such passion for their craft. This video is so wholesome, it made my day!

As someone who can't ride a bike I wish I could get Mike Boyd to help me.

Same! Love Tom haha

Likewise!

Just don't use a high end bike. Learning on such a bike how to use it is like learning how to drive a car with a Ferrari with carbon brakes.

@@cyan_oxy6734 but the ferrari is automatic ususally so it is easier than trying it on a 20 year old manual car with no power to get started.

@@cyan_oxy6734 It's really not even remotely the same. It's expensive but it's no more difficult to ride.. Actually it's easier to ride because it's lighter and has a greater ability to fine tune the gears to make the rider feel comfortable. The only thi g you should look out for is the touchy brakes, but as you seen in this video.. Tom didn't even need to use the brakes. If you're worrying about the expense of the bike, (as if falling off it is going to damage it so you're better off using a cheap bike) it's important to remember that these MTBs are designed with durability in mind because they're going to hit trees and take tumbles down a mountainside throughout their life span.

@@cyan_oxy6734 people should use what they can afford. If they can afford to crash a $20k bike like nothing, then do it.

@@mega20able they said usually a child, because usually it's a child who is learning. Usually.

Mi li sin toki e ni

(Blabbers) and (yelps) are golden!

According to his Twitter, the subtitles here in this channel are worked on by Caption+, with a focus on making it clear who is talking. On regards to relearning how to ride a bike: I don't know if this will help, because the longest I spent without riding a bike was maybe 5 years, but a lot of what we learn we don't really forget, and can remember again after trying it for a bit, but you should take it slow at the start to let yourself remember the basics, and adjust it for your difficulties, which in your case, probably is your knee.

You go mate, I don't know what kind of injury you had but, aside from physio, cycling was the best thing I could do for my knee right after the OP. The beauty of cycling is that, due to the gears, you can choose your effort. Lot of motion ad light load was what did the trick and brought my knee back inline.