Alt Bike Culture - Beijing olympics monowheel

Bikeforums.net is a forum about nothing but bikes. Our community can help you find information about hard-to-find and localized information like bicycle tours, specialties like where in your area to have your recumbent bike serviced, or what are the best bicycle tires and seats for the activities you use your bike for.



PDA

View Full Version : Beijing olympics monowheel

Freewheeler
08-26-08, 06:48 PM
Hi All,

I haven't visited for some time (sorry!), but I thought that I would now find lots of posts about the amazing "monowheels" in the closing of the Beijing Olympics.

Really was incredible, was I the only one who saw it??

Freewheeler.

Floyd
08-26-08, 07:16 PM
You were not the only one...I too was amazed to see the monowheels. amazing, wonder what they are like to ride. I have tried unsuccessfully to ride a uni- but am too old to break my head trying...however on one of those it might be worth a try, balance would be different.
mikepoole
08-26-08, 08:46 PM
Yeah, I saw it- some of the riders made it look like the balancing was a bit tricky... we definitely decided that we must have one, somehow. As well as the see-saw-counterbalance-beam thingy.

StephenH
08-26-08, 10:23 PM
The unicycle world has been on top of this for a while:
http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=70545&highlight=olympics
deez
08-27-08, 03:09 PM
Yeah I saw and totally wanted one.

I wonder if they'll be selling them cheap now that the olympics is over...Olympic Surplus :thumb:


of course this begs the question...who made them?
ianjk
08-31-08, 01:23 PM
The idea has been around for a while, google around and you will find some pretty crazy ideas from the early days of cycling.

Kerry McLean has been making bad-ass gas-powered ones for a long time... youtube his name and crash to see what happens when you put a v-8 in one and loose control.
East Hill
09-03-08, 07:57 AM
You probably would not have to worry about anyone stealing it, which is a good thing, because I think they would be a bit cumbersome to try to lock.

East Hill
Artkansas
09-05-08, 11:28 PM
I discovered about those a year or so ago. All I have been able to find out about them is that they are made in a factory in Xian, the ancient capitol of China.