UNIQUE unicycles

[joejumps4fun]

When I first got into unicycling, I was fascinated with the variety of riding styles and the different types of unicycles there were. This page was particularly captivating: http://www.unicycling.org/btdt/unique.html

I'd like to keep that spark of interest and wonder alive. In this thread, please feel free to post your photos, videos, and ideas about unique and different unicycle designs, or even just funny unicycle pictures. For example: my friend Dylan had an idea to make a unicycle lawn mower. Coincidentially, I found this posting on Craigslist and though it's not really a unicycle, it's still hillarious!

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/9200/unimowerfx2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/9200/unimowerfx2.23b1ed6fb1.jpg (http://g.imageshack.us/g.php?h=177&i=unimowerfx2.jpg)

The post: "Looking for a more out of the box way to excersize? Be the coolest guy on your street cutting the lawn with this bad boy! You can save gas and get those rock hard abs you always wanted. This bike will cut your grass to emaculate conditions. It comes stock with this excentric two tone seat. The rust on the mower gives it an antique look that will have the cat lady next door going wild for your loins. For Ten extra dollars i can throw in a basket and headlight. Is your kid bouncing off the walls? I'll even throw in some training wheels so you can put that bastard to work. This model is a three speed so you can really tear it up. Do your neighbor kids have an annoying bike ramp in the streets all the time? Well snag that sucker and set it up infront of your trees, this bad mother will easily catch 6-7 feet of air allowing you to trim those troubling branches, as well as demolishing the ramp into oblivion so those damn kids wont be gathering infront of your house to practice for the x games. Comes with your choice of 12/40 oz beer holder that doubles as an ash tray."

Here are some other photos:
http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/2439/p7010217if1.jpg
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/4634/imgp0002zo4.jpg

[Bondo]

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/9200/unimowerfx2.jpg

Except...It's a girl's bike-mower.

Looks like a hard way to mow, those push mowers take some torque!

Maybe invent a Giraffe with push mower blades below where the wheel goes.
Make free mounting a lot more interesting.

[maestro8]

In this thread, please feel free to post your photos, videos, and ideas about unique and different unicycle designs, or even just funny unicycle pictures.
So... this is a thread about unicycles? Then why isn't it in the Rec.Sport.Unicycling (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=3) forum?

[_Ground_Zero_]

That bike is actually a good invention over those sit down mowers. Unless of course you have a field for a backyard and it takes a long time to mow.

[meastro8]

In this thread, please feel free to post your photos, videos, and ideas about unique and different unicycle designs, or even just funny unicycle pictures.

Is this a thread about unicycling?

I am not a moderator, but I really, really wish I was.
I have no life, you see, this forum is it.

I am a control freak. I constantly post to try and exert some sense of control on the only thing in my life that isn't falling apart.

I'm sorry I'm such an idiot,
pity me.

[unibikeling]

Is this a thread about unicycling?

I am not a moderator, but I really, really wish I was.
I have no life, you see, this forum is it.

I am a control freak. I constantly post to try and exert some sense of control on the only thing in my life that isn't falling apart.

I'm sorry I'm such an idiot,
pity me.

hahahaha... I was wondering how you slipped through my ignore list... thats pretty funny..

[maestro8]

hahahaha... I was wondering how you slipped through my ignore list... thats pretty funny..
It's an impostor. You kids are so silly! Too bad you aren't very funny...

[ivan]

Maestro8, what happened to your cool posts on physics and engineering? Your debunking of stupid theories and attacks on gullibility, imbecility and general reluctance to think? All the posts I've seen by you lately are more or less toss.

Are you in the middle of an existential quandary?

[tobbogonist]

Maestro8, what happened to your cool posts on physics and engineering? Your debunking of stupid theories and attacks on gullibility, imbecility and general reluctance to think? All the posts I've seen by you lately are more or less toss.

Are you in the middle of an existential quandary?

Its all come about since he got that pointy head, let that be a warning to everybody.

[yoopers]

We owned this once. We've since sold it.
.

[maestro8]

Maestro8, what happened to your cool posts on physics and engineering? Your debunking of stupid theories and attacks on gullibility, imbecility and general reluctance to think? All the posts I've seen by you lately are more or less toss.
Sadly, I depend on you guys to be my posting muses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse). There's been nothing but "toss" on the fora lately, so I haven't much to work with.

What can I do? Prod you guys to post better threads? Hah!

[petad]

http://i21.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/a7/f6/166e_1.JPG

Interesting...who would want to buy this? I wish it showed someone riding it. The ebay page I got it from said it hasn't been produced since 1992...I can see why. Here's the page: http://cgi.ebay.com/LERUN-UNICYCLE-SKATEBIKE-WHITE-NEW-IN-THE-BOX_W0QQitemZ150263352363QQihZ005QQcategoryZ2904QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1Q QcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

[ivan]

Sadly, I depend on you guys to be my posting muses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse). There's been nothing but "toss" on the fora lately, so I haven't much to work with.

What can I do? Prod you guys to post better threads? Hah!
You depend on guys to be your muses? I always imagined muses to be little pretty female creatures. And I'm not clicking on that link. I have a rule, you know: no wiki articles before breakfast.

Although, I agree with the forums being toss. I'll start a new thread I think.

[nubcake]

http://i21.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/a7/f6/166e_1.JPG

Interesting...who would want to buy this? I wish it showed someone riding it. The ebay page I got it from said it hasn't been produced since 1992...I can see why. Here's the page: http://cgi.ebay.com/LERUN-UNICYCLE-SKATEBIKE-WHITE-NEW-IN-THE-BOX_W0QQitemZ150263352363QQihZ005QQcategoryZ2904QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1Q QcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

I know someone who owns a red one from ebay. it's a bit odd, but whatever.

[jamessd]

http://i21.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/a7/f6/166e_1.JPG

Interesting...who would want to buy this? I wish it showed someone riding it. The ebay page I got it from said it hasn't been produced since 1992...I can see why. Here's the page: http://cgi.ebay.com/LERUN-UNICYCLE-SKATEBIKE-WHITE-NEW-IN-THE-BOX_W0QQitemZ150263352363QQihZ005QQcategoryZ2904QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1Q QcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting
I have one, I can make a quick vid of me riding it if you want...?

[Hazmat]

Well to me, these are unique. :D
1) Half fork unicycle. (http://www.unicycling.org/btdt/half-fork.jpg)
2) Crab unicycle. (http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/unicycle_factory/images/crab2.png)
3) 2 seater unicycle. (http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/4397/unicycle2kb0.jpg)
4) UNO. (http://gadgets.boingboing.net/uno-04-25-2008.jpg)
5) Monowheel. (http://dvice.com/pics/monowheel.jpg)
6) Old school unicycle. (http://blog.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/Agusta%20monowheel.jpg)

[petad]

I have one, I can make a quick vid of me riding it if you want...?

No way! Please make a vid!

[de.bengel]

Coincidence?

http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/motorwhl/harper1.gif
http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/motorwhl/french1a.jpg

[joejumps4fun]

So... this is a thread about unicycles? Then why isn't it in the Rec.Sport.Unicycling (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=3) forum?

Because it is "Just Conversation." :eek:

[Jerrick]

Because it is "Just Conversation." :eek:

Wrong.

[joejumps4fun]

I have one, I can make a quick vid of me riding it if you want...?

Yes, please do! I'd love to see a video of you riding that. It looks like a backwards mini penny farthing.

[joejumps4fun]

Wrong.

Um, okay. What category would you suggest this thread to be in?

[jamessd]

No way! Please make a vid!
Ok lol the video should be online tomorrow, i will post link here when done.

[jamessd]

I made a video on my cam but I'm afraid my laptop wont read memory cards atm so I cannot upload it yet.

[jamessd]

Here is the link for when it has finished processing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj5HRncK5IE

and I just noticed there are also a few other videos of these contraptions...this is my fave:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Pe7Q5sFfw

and a modern one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ks9RyuTiYA&feature=related

[poofengle]

The riot wheel wins hands down as the most badass unicycle ever. 1100 pounds of gasoline burning power at your fingertips

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uhjDbVsuLM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9AOhPgCNJs

[joejumps4fun]

This doesn't look like it will work...

http://ployer.com/archives/2008/06/unicycle_transport_vehicle.php

...why not use a normal unicycle for a transport vehicle instead?

[johnfoss]

So... this is a thread about unicycles? Then why isn't it in the Rec.Sport.Unicycling (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=3) forum?Don't worry. 24 posts later and hardly any unicycles have been posted. It's almost all tricycles and monocycles.

Don't get me wrong, monocycles are cool. So are mower-bikes, but the mower-bike and all those skatebikes are three-wheelers. Can't you guys count?

[Mikefule]

Can't you guys count?

Only in imaginary numbers.

[masterfulmoron]

I'd like to see the crab unicyclelike bicycle :) :confused: :D :p :rolleyes: ;) :eek: http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/unicycle_factory/images/crab2.png

[UniGoth]

http://i21.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/a7/f6/166e_1.JPG

Interesting...who would want to buy this? I wish it showed someone riding it. The ebay page I got it from said it hasn't been produced since 1992...I can see why. Here's the page: http://cgi.ebay.com/LERUN-UNICYCLE-SKATEBIKE-WHITE-NEW-IN-THE-BOX_W0QQitemZ150263352363QQihZ005QQcategoryZ2904QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1Q QcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

believe it or not, I OWN one, my parents got me one for my b-day on year, there called "skate bikes"

[johnfoss]

I'd like to see the crab unicyclelike bicycleThat was a crab-dicycle. I think it was put together as a training step toward riding the actual crab-unicycle. The finished product:

[johnfoss]

Here's some more:

40th birthday cake unicycle

Sailplane wing holder-upper unicycle

Super Trick Cycle (a unicycle with an appendage)

Seen at Unicon XII in Japan -- I have no information about it and did not see anyone try to demonstrate it

Conference bike; seats seven. Not a bike either.

"Tiny Tim" giraffe by Tom Miller

Electrically powered and self-balancing Eunicycle, by Trevor Blackwell

Torsion Bar unicycle, at Anappolis Royal, Nova Scotia (you had to be there)

[joejumps4fun]

Thank you for the photo contribution, John! I've been on a 7 seater "conference bike" before. That last one with the bar in the middle...could you explain what it did/does?

[Hazmat]

Would this be classified as a unique unicycle???

http://www.unicycling.org/btdt/aag.sized.jpg

[Hazmat]

:D Looky at what i found. (http://www.unicycle.uk.com/shop/shopdisplayproduct.asp?catalogid=758) :D

[1wheelwonder]

wheelie!

[Hazmat]

I also found this awesome looking Skateboard unicycle.

http://tech.spotcoolstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/mwmain.jpg

[joejumps4fun]

I also found this awesome looking Skateboard unicycle.

That's a "Magic Wheel" and theres videos on youtube where you can see people riding them. It is supposedly a trendy thing catching on in Europe. I had one but I just sold it on eBay...I'm a die hard BC wheel rider. This is just a "possible wheel," lol! Thanks for sharing!

[ian.stockwell]

Check out my avatar - Chocolate Unicycle

Edit - or maybe that should be candy unicycle, either way it tasted great.

[johnfoss]

Would this be classified as a unique unicycle?I would classify that as a bike minus a wheel. Far from unique but still pretty hard to ride.

Torsion bar unicycle (http://unicycling.smugmug.com/gallery/5313006_suRbB#324717215_NuRYM-A-LB):
I guess the idea behind it is to have a pair of unicycles that are connected by a torsion bar so they tend to balance each other. So I was able to ride it, on the grass, with my wife Jacquie who doesn't unicycle. Riding it is very odd, because the frame is "supported", though in a springy fashion. Also you're attached to the "other" unicycle so you either both go forward, or you rotate around the non-pedaling person, etc.

[masterfulmoron]

I think you should have called this thread UNIQUEcycles