[HN Gopher] Monowheels: Vehicles with Insufficient Wheels
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Monowheels: Vehicles with Insufficient Wheels
Author : KolmogorovComp
Score : 27 points
Date : 2024-04-18 20:31 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.douglas-self.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.douglas-self.com)
| ortusdux wrote:
| While not a monowheel, I feel the gryo monorail should be on this
| list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_monorail
| NikkiA wrote:
| It has it's own section in the trains part of Douglas' site:
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| http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/brennan/brennan....
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| and
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| http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/scherlgyro/scher...
| ortusdux wrote:
| Awesome, thanks for the link!
|
| "Left: The Brennan model, carrying Brennan's daughter on an
| aerial wire. From a certain lugubrious quality in her facial
| expression, one has to conclude that the young lady was not
| entirely happy with her situation"
| abeppu wrote:
| I find it interesting that there is such a convergence towards
| hubless wheels, which I think are challenging regardless of
| number. There are a handful that have hubs but if the passenger
| is on top they drift into unicycle territory, which feels like a
| different category -- and if the passenger is inside, then the
| whole vehicle is perhaps large enough that it's further out of
| reach for an independent hobbyist project?
| throwup238 wrote:
| I can't believe this site doesn't mention the South Park
| monowheel! [1]
|
| Until seeing this, I didn't realize they were parodying anything
| or that this design was a real thing. And with so many variants!
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| [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entity_(South_Park)
| geor9e wrote:
| The website seems to end with a 2015 electric unicycle but not
| continue on with covering that form factor. Maybe because most
| people don't refer to those as monowheels anymore.
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| http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/motorwhl/motorw...
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| Also airwheel is kind of a random brand to showcase - Trevor
| Blackwell made an earlier one
| https://www.trevorblackwell.com/eunicycle and Solowheel got the
| majority of the earlier patents (and royalties to this day).
|
| That form factor has come a long way since 2015 though.
|
| Check out this MotoGP style race, they're hitting 50+mph:
| https://youtu.be/fbX6qaWINBk?si=l2G0JnBxxCMP8a7e
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| I see them every day whizzing across San Francisco, especially on
| Van Ness passing all the cars.
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| I know there's at least two shops in SF selling them, one in
| Potrero and one in Hayes Valley -
| https://alienrides.com/collections/electric-unicycles -
| https://lastmilepev.com/collections/electric-unicycle-euc
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| Unicycle seems to be the winner. The "wrap around the body" form
| factor seems doomed from a physics point of view. That big of a
| diameter has way too much leverage, and the person sitting inside
| has too little. So you end up doing a flip instead of stopping.
| As such, their required stopping distances are very long compared
| to unicycles which can stop as well as a bicycle, if the rider is
| skilled.
| airstrike wrote:
| ok, that race video was as fun to watch as it was unexpected
| unstatusthequo wrote:
| Glaring miss in the list? https://onewheel.com/
|
| Love riding mine!
| paddy_m wrote:
| Also the Ultimate Wheel. A unicycle without a seat.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WRzqlh3728
| teruakohatu wrote:
| This musical not-monowheel the website links to is quite
| interesting:
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi4PiLSQhf0
| grcggddddc wrote:
| > That this neglect is wholly justified is neither here nor
| there.
|
| Love this kind of site.
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