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A unicycle is a vehicle that touches the ground with only one wheel.The most common variation has a frame with a saddle, and has a pedal-driven direct-drive.A two speed hub is commercially available for faster unicycling.
On October 10, 2008, Jan Logemann was the first to break the record with a Schlumpf geared 36" unicycle. Since then, all records have been broken with a 36" unicycle geared with a Schlumpf hub. On September 18, 2009, Ken Looi improved the record by over 2.4 km, just 7 meters short of the 30 km mark.
A monowheel rider in the 2011 Doo Dah Parade, Columbus, Ohio Hemmings' Unicycle, or "Flying Yankee Velocipede", was a hand-powered monowheel patented in 1869 by Richard C. Hemmings. [1] 1931 Cislaghi Motoruota monowheel, modified by Giuseppe Govetosa. A monowheel or uniwheel is a type of one-wheeled, single-track vehicle.
The dictionary definition of velocipede at Wiktionary; Media related to History of the bicycle at Wikimedia Commons; 19th century picture of a Velocipede supposedly outrunning a horse Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine; Musée McCord Museum Gallery "A Race on the Ice – Bicycles v. Skates" The Boneshaker. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
An electric unicycle (often initialized as EUC or acronymized yuke or Uni) is a self-balancing personal transporter with a single wheel. The rider controls speed by leaning forwards or backwards, and steers by twisting or tilting the unit side to side.
Drais invented his Laufmaschine (German for "running machine") in 1817, that was called Draisine (English) or draisienne (French) by the press. Karl von Drais patented this design in 1818, which was the first commercially successful two-wheeled, steerable, human-propelled machine, commonly called a velocipede , and nicknamed hobby-horse or ...
Honda states that the "U" stands for unicycle and for universal. [5] It weighs 10 kg (22 lb) and travels at 6 km/h (3.7 mph), a similar speed to the Toyota Winglet . Honda U3-X is a compact experimental device that fits comfortably between the rider's legs, to provide free movement in all directions just as in human walking - forward, backward ...
1903 – A California motorized bicycle ridden by George Wyman became the first motor vehicle to cross the North American continent. [10]1903 – 1962 The "Shaw Manufacturing Co." of Galesburg, Kansas advertises a 241cc chain-drive engine kit (1903–1915) for motorizing a bicycle in "Popular Mechanics" magazine for $90.