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**Breotan**

I'm really not sure what to think of this. I want to like it because it's sorta cool in an Orky way but I would really fear trying to tool down the freeway on one. 80mph over poorly maintained Interstates would definitely be "brown trousers time".

Jeff Perez wrote:RYNO Motorcycles: changing the game one wheel at a time

Anyone who rides a motorcycle will tell you that there’s nothing like the thrill of riding headlong on the open road with the wind in your face and worries at your back. A motorcycle is truly one of man’s best friends. But what if someone changed the formula — a formula, mind you, that’s been relatively unchanged for a over a hundred years.

Chris Hoffmann may just be that man, and his one-wheeled RYNO motorcycle may be the next great invention in the motorcycle world.

But what exactly is a RYNO? First off, it’s a prototype– one that’s been in construction for nearly seven years already. Additionally, it’s a single-wheeled, zero-emissions motorcycle, that uses similar — albeit more advanced — technology to the Segway.

How did Hoffmann’s idea come about? Well it all started with inspiration from his young daughter, he stated in a recent interview with Gregg Rosenzweig of Yellow Pages:

“My 13-year-old daughter saw a one-wheeled motorcycle in a video game seven years ago. She asked me if I could build one…I started playing around with designs and seven years later, here we are.”

Right now this new technology is still in the prototype stages, but when the RYNO takes to production — hopefully sometime this year — it will cost $5,295 from its production facility outside of Portland, Oregon. Hoffmann and his team are also in the process of setting up dealers nationwide so that potential customers can come in and try them out for themselves.

**djones520**

Nope.

**Breotan**

I can't stop laughing at the windscreen in the first shot. I mean, why even bother?

**Ahtman**

For getting around a city I imagine it is nice, but for the same price you can get a really nice scooter as well. I like it, but I wouldn't buy it.

**Grey Templar**

Sure, lets make motorcycles even more of a death trap than they already are.

And how does the thing stand up by itself? I doubt a kickstand is going to work.

**Wyrmalla**

Is that comfortable? The way he's holding his back looks like it'd start to be a nuisance after riding for a while.

**AlmightyWalrus**

Grey Templar wrote:
Sure, lets make motorcycles even more of a death trap than they already are.

This. How is this a good idea at all? Just because something CAN be done does not mean it SHOULD.

**the shrouded lord**

As long as it has a cup holder...

**purplefood**

AlmightyWalrus wrote:
Grey Templar wrote:
Sure, lets make motorcycles even more of a death trap than they already are.

This. How is this a good idea at all? Just because something CAN be done does not mean it SHOULD.

Of course it does...

**TheCustomLime**

The future is here, gentleman, and it's far less sensible than the past.

**purplefood**

I feel this applies.

**dementedwombat**

They all are welcome to put this in production...as soon as they finally get around to making my Tomahawk.

**AegisGrimm**

I think it's pretty cool for tooling around small areas- obviously not highway driving.

And how does the thing stand up by itself? I doubt a kickstand is going to work.

I assume the front bar is the "kickstand". You lean it down forwards.

**Kilkrazy**

Not a new idea.

http://solowheel.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pkn8Ko-q74
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/raptor-Motorized-Unicycle-segway-balance,19833.html\

And others. An engineer in California built a "segaway-alike" and a self-balancing unicycle years ago but I can't find the projects ATM.

**Pacific**

These things have been around in Japanese animation for years!

Personally though I prefer the new Kawasaki concept model. Changes between two different modes, depending on whether you are racing along the highway, or riding slowly in the town.

As an avid motorcyclist, think this kind of thing is awesome. Although, as far as 'new developments' go I would settle for mandatory reaction tests for the over 70, and IQ tests for that matter for anyone getting behind the wheel.

**hotsauceman1**

Am i the only one having a problem trying to find ut if the guy in the first pic is a guy or a girl?

**Jihadin**

Wasn't that bike in a movie or something...something to do with Whoville or something silly...about nature and tree's...and bears roasting over a open pit fire..

**Grey Templar**

Looks like a women to me.

**infinite_array**

I thought that looked familiar...

**Jihadin**

Venus Wars

**Ouze**

The monocyle in Breotan's OP looks equal parts cool and terrifying.

**azazel the cat**

Honestly, I'd consider getting one if the price dropped by about 30%.

**Ensis Ferrae**

My only real question is, how can I attach a side-car?

**Jihadin**

30% and half your soul

**agnosto**

top speed, 10 mph.....yeah, pass.

**Frazzled**

Having been raised on bikes with a dad who was one of the first road racers and a dirt dobber racer when I was young, all I can say is that looks deadly stupid.

**daedalus**

Frazzled wrote:
Having been raised on bikes with a dad who was one of the first road racers and a dirt dobber racer when I was young, all I can say is that looks deadly stupid.

Are you Chris from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?

**Piston Honda**

I wanna see someone do a wheely on it.

**Cryogen**

As a motorcyclist, that thing looks unbelievably dangerous and you'd be a fool to ride one in any kind of traffic or at any kind of speed to make riding it even worthwhile. The idea itself I think is kind of cool but technology is just not good enough for this yet.

That Kawasaki concept in Pacific's post looks incredible though! Want.

**the shrouded lord**

Pacific wrote:
These things have been around in Japanese animation for years!

Personally though I prefer the new Kawasaki concept model. Changes between two different modes, depending on whether you are racing along the highway, or riding slowly in the town.

As an avid motorcyclist, think this kind of thing is awesome. Although, as far as 'new developments' go I would settle for mandatory reaction tests for the over 70, and IQ tests for that matter for anyone getting behind the wheel.

Give me one of those, a suit of terminator armour, and the twin-linked pistol from green hornet, and I'l be a happy man.