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Create new and interesting multi-person vehicles on the fly by merging together two or more unicycles, tinker-toy style, with speed-rail. See links for details.
Why? Just for fun, of course. I haven't figured out how you would steer most of them, but there is probably a way....
Some Configurations
http://www.lcscanada.com/jaf/uni.jpg
Some diagrams of potential configurations [Jeremi, Mar 11 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Recommended unicycle
http://www.unicycle...ndriven/savage5.jpg
The type of unicycle I recommend using [Jeremi, Mar 11 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Speed Rail
http://www.hollaender.com/slipon.htm
To hold them all together as a single vehicle [Jeremi, Mar 11 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
There
http://www.shirakaw...ekibe/jpg/ichi2.jpg
but for the Grace of God, go I [thumbwax, Mar 14 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Too few skateboarder leg breaks? |
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Once you have more than two linked together, what is the advantage of the unicycle? |
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The advantage, as I see it, if flexibility -- each unicycle's drive train is fully self-contained and independent of the others, so you can add or remove unicycles from the vehicle at will. |
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I give this a resounding neutral. I don't know if this would ever be used after the novelty wore off. It seems like it'd be difficult to ride. Most people don't realize how heavily you rely on steering a bicycle to keep your projected center of gravity on the line between the contact points of each wheel. |
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How do you steer, especially if you had, for example, a 4 X 5 unicycle matrix? |
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Even if it were a line of unicycles, if you developed a way to steer the front unicycle, the other wheels would drag sideways unless every wheel minus one could also steer in some proportion to the first wheel. |
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