Heres my freshly made impossibe wheel completly made my me, including spoking the wheel. at first it was just to practice lacing some wheels then it turned into a project. its got a old school plastic BXM rim i found in the shed and the foot plates ate made out of some 100mm angle steel with some holes in it for the bolt to screw on. was’nt very hard to make but its another story trying to ride it.
Very nice! Did you have those foot plates custom made, or can you get the steel already in that shape?
i had the steel in that shape allready. it was a leggth aout 1m so i just cut two off and grinded them smooth. im thinking of making two more holes in each one to adjust the height. do you know if it is easer to ride if the foot plates are higher or lower?
Maybe this is a dumb idea. I’ve never ridden a BC wheel.
But I can imaging scuffing the sides of my legs up on the tire.
Maybe it’s not a real problem. But I felt like drawing.
Anyone think this is a good idea?
Or maybe it could be tubing like on a uni frame.
Maybe put a handle on the top to grab and pull up on.
Its not a bad concept, i just see a few problems with it and that is the purple thing would fall to the ground constantly. So you would either have a hard time riding it, Have to hold onto it and/or scraping it so much.
It would only fall to the ground if your feet arent on it… its only when you fall off or just try to push it along without standing on it.
Kinda like this?
except we dont allow two wheels…
Hence “Kinda”…
If you removed the caster, the foot holds would likely hit the ground! Anyway, it was just to fuel MuniOrBust’s idea machine…
I was just giving you a hard time. And people with two wheels two of course…
No worries. I have two wheels, I just ride one at a time!
i think its a good idea. i actually thort about it at one point but it never occured to me that it would fall to the bottom. all it realy needs to do is to stop your legs from hitting the tire but in a way that it makes it easer to ride by clenching it with your legs to keep you balance like that other two wheeled thing
I think it’s an awesome idea! i you’re putting a handle on that you can ride some awesome street on it I thin!! 
Of course that purple part would be crazy heavy if it was made of the same plate steel as the foot plates.
Maybe it would be some aluminum tubing extending up from the foot plates with some kind of plastic shield to make it effectively wider. Curved at the top.
I could imagine the added weight/momentum could be harder on your ankles/calves. For example, take a pencil in your fist and point it to sky. Move it back and forth quickly with your wrist only. No problem. Now get a metal pipe 10 feet tall and do the same. I think that will bother your wrist.
But my analogy could be wrong, or maybe the difference (pencil vs 10 foot pipe) is too extreme.
Again, I’ve never ridden a BC wheel.
It would probably have to be built to really find out if it was workable and fun.
There’s no reason the design MuniOrBust wouldn’t work. I’ve attempted to ride a BC wheel of similar design. It was Keith MacKay’s eccentric BC wheel which he brought to the 2009 UniNats. Being eccentric, it was quite tricky to ride. The neat thing about Keith’s design was the degree of eccentricity could be adjusted.
I’ve also ridden one of those Magic Wheels. The odd thing about them is that they are way more stable and predictable if you ride them backwards! That is with the castor wheel in front rather than behind.
Knut build such kind of BC just a few weeks before but he was using an old frame so you can use a saddle if you like.
his one got also an electric drive.
an other benefit of this construction is that it will stop in case of UPD much faster than the common one;)
I hope we will see pics soon…
Heh, reminded me of this thread. The possibilities are interesting.
Alright, lemme give this a shot - Make a wheel with a lightweight legguard, and heavy footplates, so that with a smooth push, the footplates weigh enough for the legguards to be cantilevered in the air, thereby making it roll smoothly when you aren’t on it, and then be safe to lean against without messing up your legs when riding.
Hopefully the image will make it more clear.
tesseracter, nice drawing! Someone should build that!
davidp, that thread was cool. It makes me want to build uni-bike or whatever it is.
I might have a dusty bike in the garage to sacrifice.
Thanks, that was 5 minutes in Inkscape, a great vector illustration program. I like it better than illustrator.