this guy plans on breaking the single wheel speed record! this is by far the closest thing to the “embreo” i have seen so far.
Awsome!
But i guess that it will… hurt a bit if you end up somewhere besides the road.
And how to turn the monster?
Check out the web site at theriotwheel.com
the guy says he turns it with a combination of an internal gyro and shifting body weight.
Anybody know what record he’s trying to break? I spent a little time trying to look one up but was unable to find anything on single-wheeled speed records.
There was the guy in Michigan with his V8-powered monocycle who was also looking to set a record. The Riot Wheel site claims the existing record is from 1899 or so, so the speed must not be too impressive.
The Budweiser Rocket Car still has a momentary single-wheel speed record of around 700 mph, when it went up onto its front wheel for 100 meters or more. For a proper land speed record, you have to do a mile in both directions, within an hour. This insures you’re not just achieving “burst” speed, that wind is not a factor, and that you can do it more than once.
preach it brother
Yes, and with all the effectiveness of one of these:
true
or the ones that say PUSH
or PULL for that matter
we’re supposed to believe that as a race (and i mean the human race, don’t go all monochrome on my arse) we put a man on the moon with less computing power than in my mobile phone and still we can’t read instructions that chimps have forgotten how to read allready?
at one of the year-end functions i had to attend, for my sins, i watched people going to the dessert-table
it was a rectangular table and had a stack of bowl on the left hand side (as u look at it)
everybody, the last single one of these simply-minded oxygen thieves (who spend the other 364 days in the year running the largest retail operation in south africa, seamlessly) walked up to the table, collected a bowl from the left hand side of the table and then walked to the q that had formed on the, drumroll, right hand side of the table
that’s why i dig unicyclists
we (and i use the term advisedly) may be a lot of things
and Logan A might be a lot more
but we just aren’t stoopid
I’ve just been to a motorway service station with a door with signs like that… but it actually opened both ways.
I pushed where it said pull going in and out to make up my civil disobedience quota for the day.
Phil
Doors that require a sign that says PUSH or PULL are flawed in their design. It’s not the fault of the people who mistakenly pull on a door designed to be pushed – It’s the fault of the designer who made the door. It should be obvious from the design of the door handle whether it should be pushed or pulled. It is not the fault of the hapless user who gets it wrong – It’s the fault of the designer who made an ambiguous design.
Donald Norman covers design flaws like that in his book The Design Of Everyday Things. Everyday things should be designed such that their proper use is obvious and such that accidentally misusing them is difficult.
It’s hard to imagine that after thousands of years of door making that people are still designing some doors that require a PUSH or PULL sign on them to tell people how to properly operate them. Maybe the human race is doomed.
that the most rational response i’ve ever had to one of my lil’ tantrums
don’t u want to teach my girlfriend how to do that?
having handles specifically designed for Pulling or Pushing will most likely increase the price of door handles
at the moment we can make one single batch and use them anywhere
in the vain hope that people can read
if we had to make them ‘specialised’, it would double the production costs and raise the cost per handle
this is the same basic argument i use when someone trundles out the hackneyed old ‘why are there braille-dots on the keypad of a drive-thru ATM?’
Thanks
Reading Donald Norman’s books gives you a new apprciation for why things are dumb. And the best part is that he tells you it’s not your fault (unless you’re the dumb one who designed that door).
Here’s a little essay by Donald Norman about another dumb door. I’ll attach a photo of the door in question.
I dont quite get it, it seems from the hinges on the doors that they both open in the same direction making the pull handels looking good and relevent in opening the door… now if the same handels are on the other side then I could see where the confustion steps in and will agree that its a stupid design.
on a side not I think I have a new idea for an art instalation now I just need to find 200 or so pull doors that only open when you push them…
That’s just it. It has the same pull handles on both sides of the door. They could have solved that problem by having a push bar on the inside, but I guess that wouldn’t have looked as nice. 
One trick to figuring out doors is that fire regulations for commercial buildings require that doors open outwards from the inside. That way when you need to exit a building during a fire or other emergency you just push through all of the doors to get out. Imagine if the exit door had to be pulled to open and everyone is panicking to get out. People would stack up against the door and crush the people at the door. They would be unable to open the door. That is why emergency exit doors have to open outwards.
My current pet peeve is the entrance and exit door setup at Target stores. They try to force you through a specific set of doors when you enter and and a different set of doors when you exit. The problem is that both sets of doors are next to each other. If you try to take a shortcut you will find your way blocked by a door that won’t open for you. Their design also forces you to do a zig-zag to hit the automatic doors instead of the manual doors. It’s quite a pain and I regularly goof up by trying to take a shortcut to hit the automatic doors instead of the manual doors. Their design forces you to read and obey all of the signs on the doors and penalizes you for trying to take a shortcut.
At a block buster near me going in you push and going out you push. Pretty easy there are two doors you have to go through two for in two for out, you go through one door then another to enter or leave. They are on set up to be that so that you have to go in one section and leave out a few feet to the right.
Every time some one trys to leave they push on one side of the door then the other door you have to push on the other side making so that poeple get cofused and fumble with the door. For some reason some one put the hinges on two different sides and o course its just a bar going through the middle so no one knows theres a difference. People push, push then push some more trying to get out.
I posted this in the wrong thread 5am today, but here it is.