You know, weive got cars with 4 wheels, trucks with 18 wheels, motorcycles with 2 ( and 4) wheels, but there are no popular vehicles with one wheel. Why is that?
There is a certain logic in the advantages of a one-wheeled conveyance: pushing one wheel instead of 4 has got to be easier and so it should be efficient, big wheels handle pot holes a lot better than small ones, and thereis only one tire to change in the event of a flat.
Could a uni-car be the answer to our quest for fuel efficient vehicles? Might we be missing out on all sort of one-wheeled fun? Can it be that the automakers of the world are holding back one-wheeled technology?
If these are questions that might keep you up at night, worry not, for we have the answer in the main attraction of this installment of A Cool Waste of Time.
One-wheeled travel has, indeed, been on the minds of many inventors over the years, and the products of their quest for the creation of a convenient single wheeled conveyance have been gathered, virtually speaking, in one place, on a Web page simply titled iMonowheelsi.
There you will find the oddest of the odd and strangest of the strange, like The Gyro-Electric Destroyer of 1918 or the Christie Monowheel of 1924.
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The Destroyer and The Christie
If, after looking over the many earlier attempt at monowheel mobility, youive decided that such ideas have been laid to rest, think again: There are monowheels being produced today, some commercially. If that isnit enough, take a look at the V8 powered monowheel. Yeah baby!
All of this just goes to prove that you canit keep a mediocre idea down.
For those of you who insist on having more than one wheel, but still prefer something different, check out the diwheels site, complete with a movie of a modern diwheel vehicle. Now thereis an idea whose time has come, and gone.
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