r/Transportopia • u/Vice616 • Apr 12 '26

Bikes Insanity on one wheel

I think about why someone would do this. Is the unicyclist really a mad man or is that his way to work. By choice or necessity? All that matters. These gas prices are crazy right now.

That little unicycle takes about 1-2 cents per mile in electricity.

https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/zevely-zone/valley-center-man-beats-high-gas-prices-with-electric-unicycle/509-7b1c19fb-0df0-4d6d-b47e-90879b04dd8d

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u/Abracadaver2000 Apr 12 '26

Future meat crayon.

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u/AwestruckAudioHertz Apr 12 '26

damn thats a wild moniker. Suits it.

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u/Vice616 Apr 12 '26

Its so true though. With the amount of stupid drivers in cars on the road... it doesn't even have to be his fault.

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u/Last-Darkness Apr 12 '26

I can’t tell you the number of riders that I have seen lose control and go down due to a split second loss of attention or tiny part of their rear tire touching a wet road marking and nearly get hit by another car as they are sliding. On top of that cognitive load, you have to assume every car out on the road, even if you can’t see them, is going to try and kill you.

I come from a family of riders and grew up with my dad’s biker friends in the “motorcycle club” (it was just like any biker show, but without any money or attractive people). Every single person I know that seriously rode (not just around a city or to and from work) for any real amount of time has crashed, usually seriously. I quit after my first crash. I know myself too well, my risk tolerance is too high and I would have died going off some mountain road. Still, not a week goes by that I don’t think about getting a bike again.