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by O__________O 1200 days ago
TLDR: “We have shown that if the path of the front tire of a bicycle is specified, it is possible to derive the corresponding path of the back tire.”

Possible I am wrong, but there is a critical assumption, that being: “With additional inspection, knowing that the tangent vectors from the back-tire point with fixed distance to the front-tire track, we can find which way the bicycle went.”

As result, if the front and back tires do not maintain a fixed distance, prior research does not apply. Examples of factors that might produce minor variations include: suspension, untrue wheels, etc.