Mono- ? D'OH!

 What's better than riding the good old bicycle of yours down the street and off to school? Of couse! Riding this giant monowheel - victorian style. It'll certainly impress the ladies ... ;^)

Kinda reminds me of the gyroscope-powered monowheel "IT" from South Park's season 5 episode "The Entity". [...]
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Steampunk monocycle on eBay
An eBay seller (whose first language is clearly not English) has hand-built a replica steampunk powered monocycle from the Victorian era. This is a hell of a piece of engineering.

After many dedication compiling information about books and documentation of epoch of the 19th century, 1got a base of knowledge to make this faithful reply of this unique monocycle for it´s funcionality and elegance. It was invented in 1873 in France.
Link (Thanks, Detroit Dave!)

See also: a steely-toothed bouquet of steampunk links from Boing Boings past

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