Press Space bar to start the animation. Use Up and Down arrows to turn the front wheel and to gain insight how the front wheel and the back wheel leave tracks. keys h and s hide and show the bike body. "In Conan-Doyle’s short story 'The Adventure of the Priory School' Sherlock Holmes solved a mystery by deducing the direction of travel of a bicycle. His logic has been minutely examined in many studies, and it seems that in this case, his reasoning fell below its normal level of brilliance." -thatsmaths.com
You will enjoy this video by George Hart that gives you the background to the story and a solution: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/multimedia/mathematical-impressions-bicycle-tracks/ More Info: http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~ebender/87/bicycle.pdf https://thatsmaths.com/2015/10/08/which-way-did-the-bicycle-go/
