The UNO – One Wheel Motorcycle

Uno: Is it a unicycle or a motorcycle

We haven’t seen anything quite like this and we assume you also wouldn’t have seen anything as fresh and as outrageous a concept like the Uno. Remarkably, an eighteen year old inventor, Ben J. Poss Gulak has put the radical Uno together and true to it’s name, the Uno is a motorcycle that has only one wheel. Weighing just over fifty four kilograms, the single seater Uno has two gyros which you keep you planted to terra firma, a little similar to the Segways. To go forward on this outrageous one-wheeled contraption, you just need to shift your weight forward and to go back, do the same backward. And if you want to stop moving, just need to tilt backwards. For all this to happen, you have a single switch to control the gyros which are wired to a microprocessor. The microprocessor takes the gyro inputs and make the electric motor of the Uno respond accordingly. Though it looks a little bizarre, the Uno is a pretty cool concept but I’m pretty pissed off that i can’t wheelie it. Jokes apart, you can catch a glimpse at the Uno at the 2008 National Motorcycle Show in Toronto that is happening today and tomorrow.

340mph Acabion GTBO Motorcycle Now In Production

750 hp and 700 lbs vevicle weight result in more than 2100 hp per ton. They boost the jet-like GTBO to jet-fighter punch and to new dimensions of both efficiency and speed.

v max 340 mph at half throttle, governor limited.
0 to 300 mph in less than 30 sec.

Last Sky Commuter prototype finally sold for $131,700

After eyeing this item for the past 10 days, it is finally sold. The Sky Commuter prototype, which was listed on eBay Motors and had been generating quite a buzz in the media, has been sold to an eBayer by the name of prattesgirl

The Sky Commuter Project was funded by Boeing engineers in Arlington, WA, back in the mid 80’s in hopes of replacing wheeled cars with flying ones. With over 60 investors and $6 million in R&D fund, the project went bust and yieled only 3 prototypes. However, the one listed on eBay was the only one that survived.