3M views · Nov 27, 2021 · 19:33 · 1 HN recommender · 3 mentions · discussed 2021–2025
Tom Scott, who never learned to ride a bike, gets lessons from Mike Boyd, a YouTuber known for learning skills quickly. The video follows an adult's attempt to learn cycling in a short time.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN uses it as the go-to example of an adult learning to ride a bike, mostly in threads about learning cycling later in life.
“There are a number of niche videos on the topic of learn-to-bike that emphasizes the pedal-less balance method”
Teaches bike riding via the pedal-less balance method.
There are a number of niche videos on the topic of learn-to-bike that emphasizes the pedal-less balance method: link , this video , link , link , link , etc.
“Tom Scott learned to ride a bike in this 30ies”
Adult learns to ride a bike quickly.
But was the old way really that ineffective? I remember driving to a big empty parking space on a Sunday with my father, he removed the training wheels, and after around 30 minutes, I got it. Learning to ride a bike isn't complicated, what makes it look so hard is that it is a sort-of binary skill. You can either hold your balance, our you can't, and so it will look completely impossible until you suddenly can do it. Tom Scott learned to ride a bike in this 30ies, it didn't take long [0]. Interestingly, "training wheels" aren't called "training" wheels in Germany, but "supporting wheels" (Stützräder), and when I was a kid, nobody used them to "train" their children to ride a bike. They were used to transform the bike into another kind of vehicle the kid could use until it was old enough to learn to ride a bike. [0] this video
“Tom Scott made a video, as an adult learning to ride a bike”
Tom Scott learns to ride a bike as an adult.
I guess they never learnt. If you never learn then you won't know how to ride. Tom Scott made a video, as an adult learning to ride a bike this video
