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**A Unicycle/Motorcycle!? This is Crazy**Pic**

Discussion in 'Hangout Lounge' started by Ass.Fault, May 30, 2008.

  1. Ass.Fault

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    Linky

    This was also on Popular Science's latest issue.
     
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    Thats a neat little toy, I would love to ride it.
     
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    in some very morbid way, it reminds me of this:
     

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    Holy crap that thing looks sweet. I wonder if it works on the same principal as a Segway.

    Also, where can I get a Duckagator?? I want one as a pet for sure!!!!!
     
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    this thing is called the uno i read about it in popular mechanics (could have been popular science
    it operates just like a segway lean forward go foreward
    some kid built it with an r1 frame and some electric motors
     
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    Very interesting!
    Read the kids's story and click on the link to see the one Bombedier (?) has on the drawing board.

    As nice as they are and as "Green" as they will be ... I'd still rather have a 2-Stroke, 2-wheeler capable of going faster than 20km's.
     
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    You would just have to hope you don't have to stop quick! That could hurt!
     
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    Leave it to a crazy Canadian! And leave it to a crazy Canadian company - Bombardier - to follow a similar path! Who knows, it could be the start of something BIG.

    Or not.

    Either way, that kid has a bright future.
     
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    Bright future? I'll say!
    Here we are, struggling with early '80s technology and that guy's in his garage inventing the ride of tomorrow and making it work.

    I don't understand the one-wheel concept. But, that's because two wheels is all I know.
    So, to chop-up an R-1 and come-up with what he did is amazing!

    I wonder if he had an old XJ-Bike if it would present any obstacle to him making it ready for the street.
    He would probably be the kind of kid that could overcome the Lean issue in running our bikes with Pods, too!
     
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    Indeed. Think about it -- how many other people can say they can do a wheelie and a stoppie at the same time?
     
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