Talk:Self-balancing unicycle
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Per Pixar's robotic unicycle: In Disney's Duck Tales, one of the charecters possesed a robotic suit that was driven by a unicycle. Does any one want to do some reasearch on that? --Eladamry 23:04, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Proposed WikiProject: Unicycling
I've proposed creating a new project to promote and coordinate unicycle and unicycling related articles. Please comment here. -AndrewDressel 18:44, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] the eunicycle
I was about to add something about the eunicycle to this article, but I see that all mention of the eunicycle has previously been deleted from this article. I want to avoid a revert war. So is linking from one Wikipedia article to another "spam" now, or am I confused? --75.48.165.135 10:07, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Powered Unicycle Bike...NO!
There goes my gut again seeing something being praised that is so dangerous. Oughf! There’s a reason that bikes have the handlebars on the front! There is a reason that bikes don’t have a big wheel on the front anymore! There's a reason that Unicycles only travel at walking speeds and don't venture into the street!
You need something in front of you to push on when you hit something. Gee, has no one ever ridden on bike handlebars before. It is the most vulnerable feeling. You are the bumper!
I came up with the idea of a gyro stabilized unicycle in 1972 (gee,too bad Segway, Embrio, et c., all late comers). It was entirely feasible except for my vivid imagination of what can go wrong!
Imagine going down the street at 20 mph and hitting a car.
but even better, you are speeding down the street when the bearing,motor or software freezes! What stops you. Your teeth on the pavement! I could picture a faces slapping the pavement at about 60mph (the calculated rate of speed that the head would reach in the three foot circle down when the wheel stops abruptly!
No thanks, even with the handlebars and a bumper in the front of me. I crashed my Cushman scooter at least 8 times when cars ran stop signs!!
It don’t take a Rocket Scientist to see this (although I am one). Gene Choin Oakhust, Ca.
