this could be fun...
 

probably rolls over everything!

http://www.oche.de/~luftschwimmer/jp...c-p4290016.jpg

It's a good thing that smaller wheel is aero bladed. Wouldn't want unnecessary wind resistance.

Unicycle saddle? Boooo. Put a white perforated Selle on there and be awesome. Also, Deep-V's.

how the hell does it steer?

by leaning just like any other bike.

The saddle leads me to suspect the rider swings wildly back and forth. I would definetly ride one.

i'd imagine that would only happen during uneven acceleration and deceleration. and would be fun as hell too. imagine though getting this thing up to speed? how cool would it be! ****in' deadly is what. i want to ride it.

Man, I'm thinking about this more and more... I wonder how hard it is to keep upright at low speeds? If you can trackstand on that thing, you deserve a medal.

i wonder if you wedge that big wheel so it's immobile if you can pedal yourself around in upright circles.

and then be a hamster for halloween.

I was thinking it would be cool if there was a brake. Get up to speed, jam on the brakes and just roll head over heels at 30km/h!

I saw one of those (w/scooter engine) ridden on TV. They are hellaciously difficult to ride, esp to start with. When you start you swing back, when you stop you swing forward. So the uni saddle is probably a good idea. Also, it's a b!tch just to keep on a straight line.

Now I'll be thinking about this for weeks. Somebody get the owner to do it!!!

Its IT!!!!!! Well, looks very like the alternative form of transportation mr garrison made. [south park making fun of the segway]

...Well its better than air travel

^ yeah i was gonna post a picture of that. but i didn't want to derail the discussion before we figured out what the **** that thing is.

we need video.

so are you handing out medals to every unicycler who can balance for a few seconds? :rolleyes:

Bullhorns, just saying.

Unicyclists don't have 50 pounds of steel and rubber levered over their head such that their centre of gravity is very hard to balance laterally. :rolleyes:

I don't see a brake..
Skidding on that thing would be wild... especially since it has platforms!

Way to choose an appropriate image. THAT guy deserves a medal, but it looks like he does that for a living so thats good enough.

new threads to be posted in the near future:

"how do you skid on a pichle"
"cheap low budge pichles"
"has anyone seen the windsor rush hour, I hear it's the cats ass!"

it's the motorized version but he does forward rolls and the longest ghost ride ever...
http://www.wheelsurf.nl/main.php?menu=gallery (click the video link)

and here's a crash...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtfBRA8xCGE

wow. that second one made my week. thank you.

edit: i'm such a bad person

That seems all the more ridiculous because they have that esoteric sounding Verve song playing in the background

ankle snapper

He got his medal on Friday.

Wow, the ghostriding is very impressive. I'd have sworn it's impossible. It seems these things are not so unstable after all then.

Last summer when I was at a university course in Grenoble our favorite game when we were drunk or bored was to stand around in the parking lot and 'bowl' abandoned bike wheels to eachother at increasing distances. It was pretty fun but you'd always end up with punctures if you got too into it. Thats the only time I've actually attempted to true a wheel with a fork (it worked too). If you didn't keep truing the wheels they would roll really badly. Rear wheels kinda sucked too (didn't have a cassette remover!) A few of our rolls seemed like they would never stop and they didn't have an engine!