Cool Idea!--Uni on the moon

[schoesno1]

just saw some thing on the telly about the moon
i had the thought that it would be wicked to ride a uni on the moon cos of the low gravity
you could do mad tricks with ages of hang time
anyway just a thought:D

[Hazmat]

just saw some thing on the telly about the moon
i had the thought that it would be wicked to ride a uni on the moon cos of the low gravity
you could do mad tricks with ages of hang time
anyway just a thought:D
It will work but won't that defeat the purpose of unicycling and tricks cause of the very low gravity??? :confused:

[Municycler]

It will work but won't that defeat the purpose of unicycling and tricks cause of the very low gravity??? :confused:

Yes it would.

But you could do mega unispins:)

[Hazmat]

Yes it would.

But you could do mega unispins:)
Yeah i guess. you could crater unispins too. :D

[Uni-Ouly]

i think it would be kinda hard to unicycle on the moon cause its kinda sandy isnt it? but low gravity riding would be cool.

[Triball]

Everything would be fun on the moon. Also juggling. :rolleyes:

[Sir Wojak]

Well wouldn't it be rather hard to ride a unicycle with a space suit on? :p

[Poseidon]

Well wouldn't it be rather hard to ride a unicycle with a space suit on? :p

Space suits are for squares.

[johnfoss]

...but won't that defeat the purpose of unicycling and tricks cause of the very low gravity???If you change the gravity, you change the "ground rules" for many physical activities, including sports. Gravity-dependent sports like unicycling and juggling would get a lot easier, and you'd have to come up with new definitions of what counts as "hard." It sure would be fun though!

i think it would be kinda hard to unicycle on the moon cause its kinda sandy isnt it?Yes but you wouldn't weigh as much. Dusty areas would of course be harder than hard-packed ones but you probably wouldn't need as wide a tire as you would for the same terrain down here.

Well wouldn't it be rather hard to ride a unicycle with a space suit on?I would ride mine indoors, assuming there was enough room. With today's spacesuit technology, just riding in a straight line outdoors might be pretty challenging.

But if I had access to a large enough indoor (pressurized, heated) space on the Moon, I'd skip the unicycle, make myself a pair of wings and fly around in there. At 1/6 gravity the human body should be more than capable of providing enough power to fly.

[beeper]

You would need to ride with a solid rubber tire. The air in a regular one would explode on the moon, due to lack of oxygen and air. The air in the tire would leak out, and probably result in an explosion.

But yea, that would be pretty cool.

[Into the blue]

"I hope my legs don't break..."

http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showpost.php?p=603337&postcount=95375

[harper]

You would need to ride with a solid rubber tire. The air in a regular one would explode on the moon, due to lack of oxygen and air. The air in the tire would leak out, and probably result in an explosion.



Think before you post.

[skianduniaddict]

Space suits are for squares.
expldoing in the vaccum of space is for cool people!

[James_Potter]

You would need to ride with a solid rubber tire. The air in a regular one would explode on the moon, due to lack of oxygen and air. The air in the tire would leak out, and probably result in an explosion.

But yea, that would be pretty cool.
You could just, you know, pump it less....

[harper]

expldoing in the vaccum of space is for cool people!

Spelling is for someone else.

[NKahler]

I think it would be awesome to ride a motorcycle or something :p
Unicycling in low gravity (not the moon) would be pretty cool though.

[Sir Wojak]

I think it would be awesome to ride a motorcycle or something :p
Unicycling in low gravity (not the moon) would be pretty cool though.
You couldn't ride a motorcycle because there isn't any oxygen in the air. Gasoline needs oxygen to combust. :p

[Hazmat]

You couldn't ride a motorcycle because there isn't any oxygen in the air. Gasoline needs oxygen to combust. :p
Well take the motor out and ride it like a bike then. :D

[gabetheunicycleman]

(cough)weird(cough)

[dan de man]

Well wouldn't it be rather hard to ride a unicycle with a space suit on? :p
just use a "someone else problem field"

[Hazmat]

(cough)weird(cough)
Oh how sweet of you to think that its weird. :D

[thejdw]

Think before you post.
I think he did

[johnfoss]

You couldn't ride a motorcycle because there isn't any oxygen in the air.All motorcycles run on internal combustion? I think not. Anyway, a "car" has been driven on the moon, the same could be done with two wheels. And those wheels had no air in them at all!

[s0me0ner]

C'mon guys, you got it all wrong.
1st, the car that was used on the moon was battery powered.
2nd you could leave as little air as possible in the tire but unless you have a solid structure around it (metal plates or wiring) the tire would just explode.
3rd for whoever said that it would only be hard on the sandy parts, WHAT ? all parts of the moon have the same amount of dust because there is no wind.
So far the 2 craziest thing that have been done on the moon was a backflip, and Allan B Sheppard playing golf.
But still, to go Uni on the moon would be awesome, Just talking simple stupid talk.
I think we should call it Moonicycling

[harper]

C'mon guys, you got it all wrong.
2nd you could leave as little air as possible in the tire but unless you have a solid structure around it (metal plates or wiring) the tire would just explode.


Think before you post. What is the differential pressure (difference between inside and outside pressures) a tire experiences at one atmosphere on earth? If the pressure inside a tire is reduced by one atmosphere when on the moon, the differential pressure the tire experiences on the moon would be the same as that on the earth at the higher absolute pressure.

As an example, if one atmosphere on earth is 15 psia (absolute) and 0 psig (gauge) and you run your tire at 45 psig or 60 psia then the differential pressure is 45 psi or about 3 atmospheres. If you take the same tire to the moon and reduce its absolute pressure to 45 psia, then the differential pressure is again 45 psi. Same internal and external forces as on earth.

[UniBrier]

Think before you post.A six pack of root beer to the first teen who sigs that.

[harper]

Think before you post.

A six pack of root beer to the first teen who sigs that.

Physician, heal thyself. (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showpost.php?p=913792&postcount=11)

[Ducttape]

A six pack of root beer to the first teen who sigs that.
where's that 6 pack of root beer! I sigged it!

[Brian O.]

i think it would be kinda hard to unicycle on the moon cause its kinda sandy isnt it?
Yeah, our 3" muni tires certainly aren't designed to touch sand.

[john_childs]

Well wouldn't it be rather hard to ride a unicycle with a space suit on? :p
First a disclaimer: IANANS

Those big bulky pressurized NASA space suits are overrated. Your body can survive in a vacuum (http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.html) long enough to unicycle as long as you have a pressurized helmet on so you can breathe. The idea of a lightweight more mobile space suit that you could actually move in and be athletic in could be designed. The bigger challenge with such a suit would be temperature and radiation protection.

[UniBrier]

where's that 6 pack of root beer! I sigged it!I get as close as Vancouver tomorrow. I'll put it in the bushes at the I-5 rest area, duct taped to a tree.

Good thing you're close. One of these days I'll get a U.B. ride in, I'll buy after the ride.

[Hazmat]

where's that 6 pack of root beer! I sigged it!
Well you better hurry. It's here in Sydney waiting. (http://hbd.org/kobb/wlsixpak.jpg)

[johnfoss]

C'mon guys, you got it all wrong. Join the club.

1. Anyone who cares to look it up will know the Lunar Rover (built by Boeing) was electric (battery powered). That's kind of what I meant when I said "car."

2. Already debunked. If that explanation was too complicated, ask yourself why the Lunar Module (and the guys in their spacesuits) didn't explode? Though one must consider the effects of lunar day (really, really hot) or lunar night (really, really cold) on the tire material. But to assume we're going to stick an Earth-based unicycle in a backpack and bring it up to the moon is not what we're talking about here.

3. All parts of the moon do not have the same amount of dust, for the same reason that they don't all have the same size/amount of craters. Get the point? And where do you think the dust comes from, anyway?

Did someone do a backflip on the moon? I never heard of it nor have I seen a video. One would think this would be a pretty popular image. The NASA spacesuits were not very flexible. Though I can see a guy risking his life to do a somersault, I highly doubt one of those guys did a backflip on the moon. In Skylab? Yes. In the Lunar Module? Not enough room.

As for playing golf, he just kind of hit a golf ball and watched it recede into the distance. The golf club was a geologist's hammer with an extension on the handle, and I remember reading somewhere about how he had a very difficult time positioning himself to make the swing (due to the cumbersome suit). He had to do it one-handed.

Back to the lunar-uni, yes you'd probably have to have a special tire that could take the temperature extremes and UV. UV light breaks down tires; something you don't notice much unless you ride indoors a lot. I think the rest of the unicycle would be okay, though your seat might crack or melt also.

[Ducttape]

I get as close as Vancouver tomorrow. I'll put it in the bushes at the I-5 rest area, duct taped to a tree.

Good thing you're close. One of these days I'll get a U.B. ride in, I'll buy after the ride.
cool, let me know when.