One look at this circular contraption, and your first thought might be, "What is this wacky wheel?" Your next question could be, "Who came up with this crazy concept?" Well, it's called a monowheel, ...

The annual Cholmondeley Pageant of Power in the U.K. never fails to deliver something special and this year that exotic ingredient is a 1910 Edison-Puton Monowheel. Capable of being ogled by engineers ...

From the early 20th century came one of history’s strangest inventions—the motorized monowheel. A single giant wheel encircling its rider, it promised futuristic speed and simplicity but often ...

Since the dawn of the age of the automobile, motorheads have been obsessed with using as few wheels as possible. Not satisfied with the prospect of being incompletely maimed by a motorcycle, the ...

The machine is on show at the Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum in New Milton, Hampshire, and currently holds the title of the world’s fastest monowheel, reaching speeds of more than 80mph. It was ...

Monowheels are kind of ridiculous, largely pointless and far from a practical way to get around. On the other hand, they're also pretty fascinating – and never more so than in this seven-minute video ...

In what feels like a story straight out of science fiction, a team of engineers is currently building an electric monowheel motorcycle to set a Guinness World Record. The electric monowheel, known as ...

Generally, monowheels are that wacky, wildly futuristic transport that we lump in the same category as hoverbikes and jetpacks: strange, currently impractical, but very cool. Not content with waiting ...