the UK Monowheel Team was at Goodwood FOS!

 I haven't seen ANY coverage of the monowheel on the run at Goodwood until I looked at their facebook page, and wouldn't even known they were there except for looking through the coverage from Lucian George aka dWrenched

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1326693499464473&set=pb.100063715050281.-2207520000&type=3

In the beginning of the blog, I had posted a lot about monowheels, as they started showing up in historic photos online... of course, like so much of historic vehicles,  I was completely unaware they existed until the internet made most of the things, around most of the world, readily available to learn about. 

If you haven't seen the monowheel variety I've posted in the past, take a moment... it's worth it https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/monowheel

making do with only one wagon wheel, it seems... the short lived Two Man Uni-Wheelbarrow debuted on the Cariboo Wagon Road in the 1890`s

https://www.facebook.com/EricBrightonNostalgia/photos/187447993651264/

I bet someone is going to make this... I'm surprised no one already has made one for Burning Man

Design By @romorwise  https://www.facebook.com/SteampunkTendencies/

I just learned that there was a villain in the Spiderman comics that used a monowheel

 

Jackson Weele was a New York businessman who had embezzled from his company. Fearing that he might be caught, he hired the youthful criminal Rocket Racer to steal the evidence that incriminated him. Rocket Racer did so, but then opted to use the evidence to blackmail Weele. Despairing, Weele tried to commit suicide, but Rocket Racer prevented him from doing so. However, Racer was not particularly kind to Weele, disparagingly referring to him as "Big Weele". Humiliated by Rocket Racer's taunts, Weele visited the mechanical genius and underworld supplier the Tinkerer. Rocket Racer had boasted that the Tinkerer had upgraded his equipment, so Weele figured that he would be a good choice to give him the tools to combat Rocket Racer. At Weele's urging, the Tinkerer created a large metal single-wheeled vehicle that can climb up buildings, equipping it with guns and waldo-arms. With this new vehicle, the Weele became the supervillain "Big Wheel."

He now makes his living using his Big Wheel rig in demolition derbies

https://www.marvel.com/articles/games/piecing-together-marvel-puzzle-quest-big-wheel-jackson-weele

https://www.writeups.org/big-wheel-marvel-comics-spider-man/

I think he's got this figured out, for someone who doesn't realize how much more comfortable the ride will be with a seat cushion, and some soft rubber on the outside of the big wheel

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1322958884430294

get a load of this from 1914! Wow! Thanks Steve!

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by.428585/page-6695

this is cool, someone is still messing around with a motor wheel, and is using a tractor tire

https://ogdaa.blogspot.com/2020/05/wednesday-gifdump_27.html#more

Mono wheels by artist Xavier "Xzav" Philippe, who can be found at Epoqu'Auto 2019 in November I believe

https://newsdanciennes.com/2018/12/15/xzav-un-sculpteur-mecanique/
https://www.facebook.com/XZAV.SCULPTEUR/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008540255914

I ain't never seen this photo before

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2357972811194668&set=gm.2279348882103944&type=3&permPage=1

Making a mono wheel

From the Art of Clare Victor “Dwig” Dwiggins

http://hazelhomeartandantiques.blogspot.com/2015/09/from-comics-journal-art-of-dwig-dwiggins.html

Kevin Scott has the record for the fastest ride in a monocycle, 61.2 mph

http://www.carsdistrict.com/kevin-scott-man-strangest-moto-speed-record/

the Boundless Enthusiasm Bike Build Off in Sydney

http://deuscustoms.com/blog/deus-bike-build-off-2016-sydney/

this guy was dialed in on his monowheel

1923 Christie Monowheel.

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/321577158048111/

Someone just toured the Barber Motorsports museum and posted 230 photos

1894 Hildebrand and Wolfmller, the world's first production motorcycle.

1867 Roper

new Wheelsurf Monowheel made in the Netherlands

1950 Indian with bolt on factory ski conversion

post WW2 Cushman

1929 Majestic

Just a small sample of the 230 photos at  https://barbermotorsportsmuseum2015.shutterfly.com/

A mix of interesting things found on the AACA Library Tumblr

a Hudson with a lot of bumper guards

Always a good fun variety to look through at http://aacalibrary.tumblr.com/

Marco Furlanetto's motor wheel and sidecar

 found on http://www.autoevolution.com/news/a-steampunk-sidecar-bike-please-77745.html

there was no info  with this, and his website doesn't work (why pay for and make one and then do nothing with it?) but this is a computer drawn design, not a material made one

But it sure as hell is the first time anyone put a side car on a motorwheel!

Best steampunk book I've seen for kids, friends, your boss, and steam punk / inventors geek love .. Thaddeus the Boss, by Heather Theurer

http://www.heathertheurer.com/index.php

that is the first couple pages after you open it, so you can see how it begins

the story line is that Thadeus (the kid) wants to be a "boss" like his dad, and this tells how he tries and learns how difficult it is to be a boss, and what the things a boss has to do for the people he is a boss of.

one of the great things about Heather's art and design is the TERRIFIC details and inventions she displays throughout the book, like the pacifier with a dB meter

Every day the dad goes to work in a new way, but a Motor Wheel? How Cool!

the above reminds me of the big car in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen... notice the engine horsepower call out on the exhaust?

Steampunk baby buggy!

this is so cool, Heather wrote up a great amount of things that you can get your kids to think about or discuss, even go back through the book and look for

http://www.heathertheurer.com/index.php

http://www.amazon.com/Thaddeus-Boss-Heather-Theurer/dp/0982613784

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/thaddeus-the-boss/id512785971?mt=11

http://www.epbot.com/2012/03/saturday-steam-31712.html