That's pretty interesting in the context of sailing. It doesn't seem to take much time at all for people to adjust between a tiller and a wheel, or standing behind or in front of a wheel. I think a lot of that has to do with sensing that force is needed to keep from rounding up into the wind. Possibly, having a rudder well forward of the mast would change that, which makes me think that it is also the immediacy of failure that makes it difficult to learn.
Anyway, if it were a useful skill, I think learning how to handle reversing handle bars could be made faster with two changes. A longer, more forward front wheel fork, would make the amount of force more apparent to the rider. Second, much larger wheels would be slower to react with failure, so the rider gets a few extra fractions of a second to learn how to react.
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That's pretty interesting in the context of sailing. It doesn't seem to take much time at all for people to adjust between a tiller and a wheel, or standing behind or in front of a wheel. I think a lot of that has to do with sensing that force is needed to keep from rounding up into the wind. Possibly, having a rudder well forward of the mast would change that, which makes me think that it is also the immediacy of failure that makes it difficult to learn.
Anyway, if it were a useful skill, I think learning how to handle reversing handle bars could be made faster with two changes. A longer, more forward front wheel fork, would make the amount of force more apparent to the rider. Second, much larger wheels would be slower to react with failure, so the rider gets a few extra fractions of a second to learn how to react.