halfwheelers

Jack Halpern (jhalpern@cc.win.or.jp)
Sat Dec 10 16:53 JST

Ken Fuchs wrote:
|> A 1/2 wheel is a unicycle axle, 1/2 rim welded or bolted to a straight
|> bar forming a half circle shape from the side. It also has a little
|> more than 1/2 a tire, with the ends bolted down to the rim/bar ends.
|> Add to this at least 1/2 set of spokes (I don't recall how it was
|> spoked up - maybe as best as possible) and 1/2 tube glued shut at both
|> ends I presume. It can be used in a 1/2, 1 1/2, 2 1/2 wheel unicycle
|> as the top most wheel (half wheel).
|>
|> I personally think the 1 1/2 wheel would be the most fun to ride. It
|> might be fun to coast on it with the 1/2 wheel in the upper position,
|> out of contact with the bottom wheel!

Thank you, Ken, for answering this one (I am now absolutely flooded
with email and it helped). As the inventor of these silly contraptions,
it is really my responisibility to reply...As far as I know, the one I
built is (was? I can't find the frame so now its a half-wheeler) is the
oly model ever built.

How to devil are you going to get enough speed to start a coast, I wonder.
But with all the magic we've seen at Unicon VII, everything is possible,
I guess.

Please stop calling my silly contraption by all kinds of names. As
the inventor, I have the right to call it what I want (-:. I call
it the one-and-a-half wheeler. Here are some synonyms that I have
seen:

1. 1.5 wheel unicycle
2. The Halpern 150
3. 1 1/2 wheeler
4. one-and-half wheeled unicycle
5. can't remember the rest...

I will refer the whole matter to the Multiwheeled Terminology Commission,
a division of the Intergalactic Union for the Promotion of Multiwheeled
Onewheeled Vehicles, with headquarters in Nagoya, Japan on the planet
Terra <-:...

Stay on top,

Jack Halpern
IUF Vice President
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