one of the first mono wheels

[hacky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktD-SN3C4h4&feature=related

:thumbsu::thumbsu:

[John Hopkins]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktD-SN3C4h4&feature=related

:thumbsu::thumbsu:

You are not going to believe this but the woman driving that thing is my Mum.

John

[hacky]

your havin a laugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:thumbsu::thumbsu::thumbsu:

[John Hopkins]

Oh no, sorry, it was a pedal trike...

easy mistake to make.

John

[gothtec]

but then you get this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4YmVP6i4qw
:(

[Nik]

Mad as a lorry, that first one! :D

It's almost a shame that didn't catch on instead of cars, can you imagine what the world'd be like today! :D

[John Hopkins]

That was nasty, bearing in mind that he was only wearing a cutoff and seemed to be doing some speed before the wobble. I hope he wasn't hurt too badly.

It all seemed to be done on the cheap, No armoured leathers, No camera car, riding on a main road. And all power to the bloke riding it but he should have kept the speed way down until he knew all the weak points.

I wonder what happened to the first bloke to ride a motorbike.

John

[Sir Ewok]

The first motorcycle had outriggers........:D

[Beano]

....entrusting a crazy cycle with a village person will always end in tears......:huh:

[Blackjack]

I wonder what happened to the first bloke to ride a motorbike.

John

Dunno.

But the first person to go for a ride on a motorcycle might have been Gottlieb Daimler's wife. In 1885 Daimler put an internal combustion engine that he'd made in a wooden bicycle style frame, and equipped it with a drive to the rear wheel.

I remember reading somewhere that his wife pinched it and took it for a ride before anyone else worked up the courage... :rolleyes:

Which is admittedly at odds with the official version. But...

[gothtec]

Dunno.

But the first person to go for a ride on a motorcycle might have been Gottlieb Daimler's wife. In 1885 Daimler put an internal combustion engine that he'd made in a wooden bicycle style frame, and equipped it with a drive to the rear wheel.

I remember reading somewhere that his wife pinched it and took it for a ride before anyone else worked up the courage... :rolleyes:

Which is admittedly at odds with the official version. But...

She ran out of petrol on the way back and had tto pop into a chemist to buy some fuel... She went to see family to towns away... but daimler made the tank so small it didn't quite make it:D