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- Phillip, can you come down to the garage?
- Dad, I’m working on that English paper right now.
- Come on, it’ll only take ten minutes and bring your bike helmet. I want you to test ride my latest invention.
- All right, I’m here now. What should I do this time? What is this thing?
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Good, stand here on the foot rests and hold the handlebars. It’s a personal transporter and a toy, a mix of a unicycle, a pogo stick and a top.
- A top?
- Yeah, it’s like the metal top I had as a boy where you pushed down the handle and its twisted shaft made the top rotate.
- Right, and like the wooden pogo stick you rode bare-foot ten miles to school in blizzards.
- I’ll ignore that. Now listen up Son, what you do is start bouncing up and down with the pogo shaft which causes the enclosed 5 kg rotor under your feet to start spinning. Well, get started.
- O…OK…now…what?
- Now when the green light goes on, keep the brake lever on the handle closed while pulling up levers A and B. They lift the two kickstands.
- Done…wow…I’m balanced.
- Sure, it’s like a gyroscope keeping you stabile over one wheel. Keep pumping the pogo and ease off on the brake. Excess power will be steered to the wheel.
- Awe…some…I’m moving…forward!
- Now don’t worry about the slope down the driveway, Son. You can rest and brake, and your momentum is transmitted to the gyro like regenerative braking to a flywheel.
- Hey Dad, what do I do at the bottom? I’ve gotta turn here!
- Oh, I hadn’t thought of that. Uh, Phillip, try letting down one of the kick stands. That oughta do it.
(??) How's this?
http://ozdev.addr.com/misc/pogogyro.jpg
[benjamin, Oct 05 2004]
Trampofoil Water Pogovehicle
http://www.trampofoil.com/
The Trampofoil allows you to travel 7knts+ over water. Sadly you have to launch off a dock. [macrumpton, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
(?) New chrome model, action shot
http://ozdev.addr.com/misc/pogogyro2.jpg
Should keep schematics and waugsqueke happy [benjamin, Oct 05 2004]
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Funniest thing I've read in ages.
Where's the piccy, Johnny?
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In a way, this is similar to a bicycle (or unicycle), except instead of pedalling by pushing first one foot down then the other, you repeatedly put both feet down. |
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"Phillip,your dinners ready...Phillip?...PHILLIP?!" |
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What fantastic illustrations [benjamin]! |
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I second the fantastic illustration. Wow. |
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So, 'zactly how many ideas you got there in HB top 20 [FarmerJohn]? |
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Oddly, none of the top 20 are his. I would've expected at least 5 to be. |
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But can it rest at a 45 degree angle on
the head of a nail? ++ |
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Does it have to be purple? It reminds
me of the creepy purple jujube from
McDonalds. Grimace? was that its
name? |
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Purple's fine. Great, even. |
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I'm waiting for the monkey powered deluxe version. Man those little monkeys love to bounce... |
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[dpsyplc] No, none of my mediocre inspirations have been blockbuster stuff, but baking gives me a high better than s...everal other pursuits. |
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Big name.. Clearly worth a bun. |
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Punk rockers from the eighties will emerge as a new power in the world of transport. That's worth the bun alone! |
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For that Italian feel... molto intelligente. + |
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It was a feeble try at Latin. |
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[RayfordSteele] No, actually no single
person has more than one idea in the
top twenty - Oh, hang on, yes they do... |
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<brazen brag> I had two in the top ten until I got rid of them. |
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Yeah, and why did you *do* that? Couldn't you have warned us? |
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I had a top tenner, which was one of the stupidest ideas ever posted here. Just goes to show. |
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Nice illo... pity about that floor design, though. Ouch. |
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