I just read an article about a guy who made a monocycle and it reminded me of a TV show I saw, I think it was a Biker Build-off. Billy Lane, who some of you may be familiar with, is a custom bike builder out of Melborne, Florida. He also has a mechanical engineering degree and a few years back put it to good use by building a hub-less wheel. The hub-less wheel found it’s way on to his bike, the “Psycho Billy Cadillac.”
(photo grabbed from Choppers Inc. and Copyright Choppers Inc.)
I realize that this is not a big deal. I just thought it was funny that technology invented in the latter part of the 1800’s is now cutting edge. The monocycle is nothing more than a larger version of Billy’s hub-less wheel. Billy, by his own admission, had the plans for years and gives credit to the original inventor. It just happened that he was able to take the concept and hammer it out to make a working prototype for a bike.