If you have 1,000 pounds of cornstarch, some water, and a pretty big tub, you can mix up a batch of quicksand-like oobleck, and, if you’re careful, walk across it without sinking. But biking? That’s harder:

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Just keep that in mind on your next bike trek through a marsh.

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