More followup:
Looks like we have no firsthand examples for people to report since
2002. Too bad. I missed my chance to play on a motorized treadmill a
couple of times since then. Usually there's not a unicycle around when
you have a powered treadmill handy, and nobody watching.
Hypothesis:
- Since it greatly complicates the mechanism, adds parts and greatly
increases the cost of the device, I submit that tilting a treadmill
*works*. Somebody prove me wrong; good luck.
- I will also guess, with less certainty, that riding a unicycle on a
tilted treadmill will feel like going uphill, at least a little bit. The
difference here will be that there is *no* lifting of the feet to a
higher spot. However I believe the rider's balance envelope will be
shrunken just as it is on a real hill, making it a little harder to ride
the angle. Also you will have to put some degree of additional energy
into the wheel to resist its tendency to roll backwards.
But I don't think it will feel like as much additional work as it would
for someone walking/running.
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