Talk:Monowheel

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Can someone add more info about motorized monocycles, such as this, this or this (Japanese)?

-- NeoThe1 14:52, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

PS. They were the key feature of a South Park episode

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[edit] "Visibility issues"

Any citations for this, or is it just hearsay? Just how wide are the frames on monocycles and how does it impact the rider's visibility more than the a-pillar on the average SUV? 24.92.241.215 04:23, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

No other vehicles actually have, in effect, a pillar directly in front of the rider, however. In all videos of Kerry Maclean, you can see him leaning to one side to see ahead.

I believe there is another issue, but I don't know the exact term, it has to do with the wheel flopping from side to side and the flop growing in strength until the wheel falls over, I remember in the Junkyard Wars episode they showed a video of a monowheel doing this. MarkButler10 (talk) 15:36, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gerbilling

The edit for 14:58, 27 June 2006 by JzG (Talk | contribs) is labelled "(rm. silly gerbilling reference)", the edit in question having been the removal of the phrase from the paragraph "Another problem of the Monowheel is that of "gerbilling." "

This is in fact a well used term in monowheel circles to describe the effect of sudden accelleration and more often decelleration, as the wheel stops dead and the rider begins to spin round the axis like a gerbil in a wheel. I suspect that the editor deemed it to be a "silly reference" because the only current reference to "gerbilling" in Wikipedia is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerbilling which although possibly equally hazardous to the health, involves an altogether more uncomfortable ride.

Perhaps this could be added back in with a disambiguation page, which coincidentally would help in the case that someone, hypothetically, would be looking for information on the usage of the term in relation to monowheels, and would then not have to wash their eyes with industrial cleaner. *shudder*

[edit] Literrary references

A monowheel vehicle figures prominently in an attack upon the primary character of the novel "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" by Robert Heinlein.75.65.59.82 01:46, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Philip Beltracchi's mousetrap powered monowheel?

Is this "Philip Beltracchi's mousetrap powered monowheel" described in the article real or made-up? Google returned no other references to such a thing. 69.242.85.126 20:03, 15 September 2007 (UTC)