What's the unicycle ?

[trialtrial]

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/mtt.sport/cia_16_0097.jpg

Hello, somebody knows this unicycle?
Thank you.

[johnfoss]

"The unicycle" is apparently not that thing.

Which begs the question, What is that thing? :)

[hobo_chuck]

I think I saw it in that thread about using a handle instead of a seat for trials.

Is it a joke?

[unicycler100]

Its called a front wheel, at the club I go to In Palmerston North, New Zealand. They are fun to ride but also sore and tiring.

[trialtrial]

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/mtt.sport/tlopez_p1_03_2008.jpg
Hello, I found the site of Thierry Bouché and it with an approach different from the unicycle and I wishes your opinion.
Thank you

[dan de man]

looks like a huni

(handlebar uni)

they are hard as heck to ride for ages

[cubemansam]

wow, that looks really interesting

[Safey]

We had one of these at the 08 NZ Uniweekend! It's just like riding seat-out but a bit harder...

[unicycler100]

We had one of these at the 08 NZ Uniweekend! It's just like riding seat-out but a bit harder...

Yea it was Melcom's front wheel. He got some motobike handle bars and put them into a frame with a couple of seat clamp and he had the front wheel.

[unicycledood]

Would suck landing anything seat in. Design flaw in my oppinion :p

[trialtrial]

Hello, Mr. Thierry Bouché of it rolls with this plain it makes to roll in top of Mont Blanc and did much top on the Alps and some tops in the world.
I have a similar model and it is very very handy, one should not think of rolling on dish with this model for a long time but for whole ground it is really extraordinary.
Peter

[johnfoss]

I'm a little confused. Are we talking about a front bicycle wheel, or a unicycle wheel (with cranks & pedals)? I can't make out in the original image if there are any, but there clearly are in the (very nice) photo of Thierry Bouché above.

In any case, I wouldn't want to ride any kind of distance without a seat. A great workout yes, but even with legs of steel it must get old after a while?

[Mikefule]

Some early unicycles were a big wheel with handlebars instead of a seat: the front half of a Penny Farthing.

From time to time, some entrepreneur throws a few together with a unicycle frame and the handlebars from a folding scooter and sticks them on eBay.

I'd guess it's easier than an ultimate wheel, but harder than a seated unicycle, and with the bars at exactly the right height, probably a bit easier than seat in front.