Hi
I don’t normally watch such trash but did anyone see the monocycle on South Park? The premise was that this vehicle was putting the airlines out of business.
Its one of the few one wheeled vehicles I would not want to ride. 
David
I haven’t seen that, but I did see Ned Flanders riding a unicycle (on TV) yesterday.
Andrew
There’s a unicyclist in a diving suit riding on the ceiling in an episode of possibly my favourite cartoon, Dangermouse.
Or is it the floor?
Phil
I watch South Park occasionally and find it very funny. Nothing is sacred to that group! Is it possible the motorized monocycle was a metaphor for the Segway? Were they making fun of Segways?
I always wondred if you could use the balance principle of the segway to make it like riding a bike (you don’t have to balance front/back, only left/right), but that would probably useless because you would have to know how to ride a bike, and the only person that would really need a segway is someone who couldn’t ride a bike.
Well it definitely looked like a monocycle. I’d rather not give the details about its seat and mouth piece. I could not help laughing though.
Dangermouse and his hamster friend (name?) are so cool (right up there with Droopy Dog). And they save the whole world in every episode. What do we have today… South Park and Pokemon. 
David
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Re: Motorized Monocycle on South Park
Would you like to ride this one ?
http://www.jackiechabanais.com/le_monoroue.htm
Re: Motorized Monocycle on South Park
it’s a good thing we dont all like the same thing
(and any other relevant cliches)
i quite like the satirical social commentary spewed forth by the south park bunch and i’m curious to find out why u would describe the show as ‘trash’?
i just wondered…
GILD what does
“Namaste!” mean?
Re: i just wondered…
This question needs to go on a FAQ. 
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
Re: Motorized Monocycle on South Park
uw wrote:
> Well it definitely looked like a monocycle. I’d rather not give the
> details about its seat and mouth piece. I could not help laughing
> though.
Yeah, but as I recall the seat and mouth controls proved to be
unnecessary anyway, since they were all duplicated in the hand controls.
Season 5, episode 511, according to the episode guide at
http://southparkstudios.com . There’s a couple of pictures of the
machine in the downloads section for the episode:
http://tinyurl.com/e332
http://tinyurl.com/e334
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Re: Motorized Monocycle on South Park
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 18:53:42 -0500, paulb
<paulb.ou0yn@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:
>I always wondred if you could use the balance principle of the segway to
>make it like riding a bike (you don’t have to balance front/back, only
>left/right)
On a Segway you don’t have to balance left/right because it is wide
enough not to fall over. Do you mean to use the balance principle of
the Segway to make a (motorised) unicycle ride like a bike?
I wonder if that would work because the Segway will have its own ideas
on acceleration (based on front/back balance) and that may be
incompatable with what you require at any moment for left/right
balance. You can control the steering but not the acceleration or
deceleration.
BTW, I would love to try the Segway as-is.
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