Unicycle History

Hahahaha, thats hilarious! I guess the primitives could make a good joke
to.


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anam wrote:
The earliest cited reference to unicycle is April 1869 for hemmings
unicycle velocipede (the yankee flyer), which is a design for something
we'd call a monocycle. However this predates the penny-farthing (late
1869 or early 1871 depending on source). Intresting it suggests that
unicycling might not come from wheelie-ing penny-farthings/Ordinaries.

Actually it suggests that monocycles developed separately/before
penny-farthings. In the Yankee Flyer does it show the rider completely
off the ground, or using feet to "help" balance? Probably not, as it
was probably very heavy so feet wouldn't be great at that. Were these
things actually built, or are these patent drawings or similar?



...we now have an antedate for unicycle from 1860 (I need to check this)
from a british magazine. More excitingly there is a much earlier
sighting of something that may be a unicycle. A plate in the triumph of
Maximillian apparently shows a one-wheeled convayance. The Date ? A
stunning 1516 !

Keep up the research! We still don't have the "invention" of the
unicycle nailed down, in part due to various claims by late nineteenth
century entertainers all claiming to have invented the thing. Some even
after the turn of the century!

It will be interesting to see what you're able to uncover. Please note
that many of the older designs you may find may or may not have been
actually built. Your 1516 example is probably one of those. I've seen
pictures of a much older piece of sculpture, of four funeral
pall-bearers with wheels between their feet, from the year 1000 or
earlier if I remember correctly. But I assume this is a fanciful
design, not a depiction of something that actually happened.

But there's no telling what people may have done way back in the past,
we can only find out what was documented.


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mikepenton wrote:
Check out issue 4* of Uni - The Unicycle Magazine when it comes out.
We've something MUCH earlier than 1516!

* yes we're still working hard on it - there are not enough hours in
the day at the moment. I have asked the higher authorities for an extra
eight hours, but no luck so far. I'll post when I have a definite date.



Oh Mike, you're such a tease


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cathwood wrote:
Oh Mike, you're such a tease


yeah, we want it now


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kington99 wrote:
A hobnob is an oaty biscuit, the fact that they don't exist in america
just goes to show that you have no culinary heritage
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mikepenton wrote:
We've something MUCH earlier than 1516!

I'm thinking a caveman on a BC wheel...


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johnfoss wrote:
I'm thinking a caveman on a BC wheel...


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