When I was about 8 years old, we would walk the two blocks to the "68th street hill" (the biggest one in the neighborhood) and ride down it on anything available (bikes, scooters, coaster wagons, and even the older guys homemade "chugs"). One weekend, my uncle took us fishing in his 14 ft Alumacraft with a 10 HP Johnson. I was fascinated by how he steered the boat from the back. The next day, I took my Radio Flyer to the aforesaid hill and tried to go down backwards, using the handle like the tiller on the outboard.
I can attest to the fact that "anything with rear steering is somewhat difficult to steer". Make that
extremely difficult. I spent the rest of the summer recovering from that experiment.
