MOTOR WHEEL FOR CHEAP TRANSPORTATION (Nov, 1928)
MOTOR WHEEL FOR CHEAP TRANSPORTATION
POWERED by a motorcycle engine and operated through the conventional handlebar control, a rubber-tired motor wheel has been invented which is claimed to represent the ideal in cheap and rapid transportation. The device is so simple that a youngster can operate it. The large wheel is fitted with a continuous inner track along which run a series of flanged wheels on which the mechanism revolves. The rider is seated inside the wheel on a regulation motorcycle saddle.
I give up…how do you stop it?
Comment by Repack Rider — March 27, 2008 @ 10:43 pm
How many times has this thing been invented, invented, invented… All on the pages of these magazines.
Comment by Hip2b2 — March 28, 2008 @ 3:41 am
It shouldn’t take him more than six months to grow out of this, unless he gets half his hair torn out by the wheel first.
Comment by Blurgle — March 28, 2008 @ 7:29 am
Wonder if crainial disfiguration was due to face plants during father-forced test runs.
“Please daddy, no, I hate the monowheel! I don’t want to daddy! Please, no!”
Comment by powermatic — March 28, 2008 @ 11:06 am
Didn’t I see this on a South Park episode?
Comment by djh — April 2, 2008 @ 1:49 pm
These things look kind of cool. I just thought they were just something made up to fit a storyline (see the latest Ratchet & Clank game for PS3) until I found them on this blog.
Comment by Anne — April 9, 2008 @ 12:21 pm