mscalisi said:I'm not sure that a 1/2 wheel unicycle does work.
If you ride it nicely it does. If you don't, you leave marks on the gym
floor.
Quoted message said:A "no wheel" unicycle is a unicycle minus the tire, tube hub and spokes.
Basically you have the hub and cranks sitting on the floor. It's
basically a silly prop.
Jack Halpern brought both of these to Unicon I. Problem is, he didn't
bring himself (tragic story about passports/visas). So he requested I
demonstrate his two silly unicycles in the public show. It wasn't too
hard, except his dominant foot is opposite mine, so I had a hell of a
time riding the half-wheeler "nicely." I called it the world's
second-stupidest unicycle.
The stupidest, of course, is the no-cycle. In this case, an old
Japanese unicycle with no spokes, rim or tire. At rest, you're in the
"safety position," sitting on the seat with the pedals nearly flat on
the floor. It's very easy to do some otherwise hard unicycle tricks on
it. Like indefinite stillstands. One-foot idling (okay, not that hard).
Very silly for unicyclists, probably not very funny for a general
audience.
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