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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 ...
In March 2010, he filed a provisional patent for Solowheel, a self-balancing electric unicycle, [19] using a gyroscopic sensors to balance the unit in the direction of travel. The Solowheel won numerous awards including 2011 ISPO Bike BrandNew finalist in Munich, Germany and 2012 INPEX Invention Trade Show first runner-up in Pittsburgh ...
Despite there being self-balancing unicycles and concept vehicles built by hobbyists prior to Wood's invention, he is attributed as the first to make one available commercially. Wood is the founder of Focus Designs, a company that distributes the self-balancing unicycle that Wood invented. [1] He spent more than two years developing the technology.
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.
The term 'velocipede' is today mainly used as a collective term for the different forerunners of the monowheel, the unicycle, the bicycle, the dicycle, the tricycle and the quadracycle developed between 1817 and 1880.
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.
Honda (HMC) is a hotbed of creative thinking when it comes to transportation and mechanics. It makes motorcycles, cars and high-end lawn mowers. Its early Civic was one of the first small Japanese ...
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