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Take the Pedals Off the Bike (www.fortressofdoors.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] gibmiser 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The take away is at the end of the article

Okay, cool, we found a neat trick for making bike riding easier, but if I'm being honest, "break complex tasks down into simpler ones" wasn't exactly a revelation in fundamental pedagogical principles for me.

But what was a revelation was that taking the pedals off was even an option.

From now on, whenever I'm trying to learn something (or teach it to someone else), the first thing I'm going to ask myself is, "how do I take the pedals off?"

[–] dagronslayer 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't know how this poor advice even got posted. Strider bikes have been a thing for more than a decade. Any googling will point you to that advice over training wheels.

The actual hack if you don't want to pay for a strider bike is taking the cranks off, not just the pedals. Cranks can still get in the way, or smack your kids shins. It's not rocket science to take them off.

[–] gibmiser 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Forget about the bicycle for a second.The guy is saying that there are probably all kinds of things in our lives similar to this, we should keep an eye out

[–] dagronslayer 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So this is a long winded "Think outside the box." Except that the anecdote used is actually a poor solution.

Maybe I am just old, do people really need a PSA for this? I guess not everybody grew up watching MacGuyver.

[–] vahirua 2 points 1 month ago

I think the guy just made an observation regarding how his kid learned to ride a bike and wanted to share his insights. It is when it is linked and presented on a different platform that it gets a bit silly and sounds like some kind of profound insight :)