- 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? - 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.-- FarmerJohn, May 13 2004 (??) 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.jpgShould keep schematics and waugsqueke happy [benjamin, Oct 05 2004] Funniest thing I've read in ages.Where's the piccy, Johnny?+-- gnomethang, May 13 2004 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.-- kropotkin, May 13 2004 Three hours later....
"Phillip,your dinners ready...Phillip?...PHILLIP?!"
"Where's he gone?"...[+]-- skinflaps, May 13 2004 What fantastic illustrations [benjamin]!-- FarmerJohn, May 13 2004 i want one...-- engineer1, May 13 2004 Esto es GUAY ! +-- finflazo, May 13 2004 I second the fantastic illustration. Wow.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, May 13 2004 So, 'zactly how many ideas you got there in HB top 20 [FarmerJohn]?-- dpsyplc, May 13 2004 Oddly, none of the top 20 are his. I would've expected at least 5 to be.-- RayfordSteele, May 13 2004 But can it rest at a 45 degree angle on the head of a nail? ++-- sartep, May 13 2004 Does it have to be purple? It reminds me of the creepy purple jujube from McDonalds. Grimace? was that its name?-- schematics, May 13 2004 Purple's fine. Great, even.-- bristolz, May 13 2004 I'm waiting for the monkey powered deluxe version. Man those little monkeys love to bounce...-- Captain_Ignorant, May 14 2004 [dpsyplc] No, none of my mediocre inspirations have been blockbuster stuff, but baking gives me a high better than s...everal other pursuits.-- FarmerJohn, May 14 2004 Big name.. Clearly worth a bun.-- magic_ki, May 14 2004 Punk rockers from the eighties will emerge as a new power in the world of transport. That's worth the bun alone!-- dobtabulous, May 14 2004 //Machina Transporta//
For that Italian feel... molto intelligente. +-- k_sra, May 14 2004 It was a feeble try at Latin.-- FarmerJohn, May 14 2004 [RayfordSteele] No, actually no single person has more than one idea in the top twenty - Oh, hang on, yes they do...-- hippo, May 14 2004 <brazen brag> I had two in the top ten until I got rid of them.-- bristolz, May 14 2004 Yeah, and why did you *do* that? Couldn't you have warned us?-- RayfordSteele, May 14 2004 I had a top tenner, which was one of the stupidest ideas ever posted here. Just goes to show.
Nice illo... pity about that floor design, though. Ouch.-- waugsqueke, May 14 2004 random, halfbakery