Kids and pedal cars, Red Bugs, and gas pumps

The above was identified as a Red Bug (but looks like a Briggs and Stratton Flyer or Smith Flyer to me) based on the shifter lever and fuel tank, and is realistically the same as several other brand buggys, powered by a Motor Wheel, and look like a lot of fun. The top photo is the same company cart, but earlier and with electric power. The batteries are in the box on the back, and that is why the kids are looking like they can't find where to put the fuel 

 The fuel company product in the tank is "Whoo Pep"

 from David's great vintage car photo blog http://theoldmotor.com/ where you can just look at the photos, or read about the history behind them too

Another Smith Motor Wheel photo found, the 2nd this week

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/4-wheel-buckboard-with-smith-motor.html for the engineering drawings and other photos of hte Smith Motor wheel and 4 wheel buckboard

This is one photo from the "Good Dog Scrapbook" of Jim Linderman http://dulltooldimbulb.blogspot.com/2011/05/good-dog-scrapbook-by-jim-linderman-and.html

4 wheel buckboard with a Smith Motor Wheel, and the engineering drawing of the motor wheel

pretty damn cool

extremely great photos from 21 studs tumblr, excellent site, part 2

Ain't that the cutest thing you've seen today?

1950 Nash dealership

Navy Shore Patrol helping a fellow sailor into a Medical Department ambulance





I think this is the earliest american flag tank I've seen, and it looks great on this bike








a Ford dealership in 1932

Ozark mountineer burro train ride (can't read the last word)
The Rebel Gal crew and the partially completed nose art that shows how one artist made the painting the right scale
see more at http://21studs.tumblr.com/

Dr Purves's Dynasphere, 1932

Steam punk, making things look victorian and brass era, steam powered... that's the idea. It has a lot of aspects though, here's a few

1930's France it seems, because just to the left of the motorwheel is a Citreon Traction Avant

Steam powered ditch digger.. .that is a monster

Cadillac tow truck, for more cars converted into tow trucks see: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/tow-trucks-were-sometimes-made-from-big.html

Johnny Cash and the 1986 Steam Expo. Very cool. Two times.

the above is the Lanz bulldog, 1 cylinder, compression ignition powered

all of these are just an indication of how cool http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/ is

ignore the rider, what do you think about this unique morphing of a motorwheel and a motorcycle

found on http://motorcycle-74.blogspot.com/
if you get a kick out of unusual "Motorwheels" from the innovators who kept trying to perfect a great big wheel you rode inside of, take a look through http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/motor%20wheel

humans, wheels, and engines. Put them all together and what do you get? The motor wheel, the focused culmination of the human desire to be fast

These have almost all been posted here before, seperately. I found more about them, and thought this could be a really cool informative and thourough post about the motor wheel.

The above

1931

1933 http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2010/11/22/m-goventosas-one-wheel-to-obscurity/ it went 93mph... I doubt that anyone did that more than once given the conditions of roads in Italy in 1931 to 1933, that's when the above photo was taken, 1931

early 1960's

photo from http://www.fengtastic.com/?p=895
A full description of Charles Taylor and his lifelong one wheel development ideas: http://thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com/2008/05/charles-f-taylors-one-wheel-vehicles.html The vehicle was patented by him in 1964

“This MV Augusta 60cc Monomoto Superleggera is the experimental machine ridden by young wealthy Italian Luiggi Bandini, during practice for the 1954 Milano-Taranto Road Race. Bandini tragically lost control in a misty mountain section, while waving to a pretty spectator. His grief stricken father, Count Enzio Bandini, “The Falcon,” never again permitted anyone to ride or even view this advanced design, and knowledge of its whereabouts faded. Eventually, rumors of this fascinating machine reached the motorcycling bon vivant Todd Fell. On a trip to Naples, Italy, his quest to find it was rewarded at the Bandini country villa, where in 2004, fifty years after the tragic accident, the late Count’s family was persuaded to part with the treasure.”

1947 The Vereycken Diwheel 1947 and you can read more about it http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/diwheel/diwheel.htm

early 1950's

Sidecar Willy, 1990's?

The R.I.O.T. wheel, burning man mid 2000's Above Jake Lyall's RIOT wheel at the 2003 Burning Man Festival.

This chunky 1100-pound machine is Jake Lyall's RIOT (Re-Invention Of The) wheel. Lyall's monowheel is unusual because it does not use the rider's weight to provide the reaction to the engine's thrust on the wheel. Instead the rider is outside, and the reaction is given by a lead-weighted Honda 80cc 4-stroke scooter engine suspended from a central shaft, driving through a sprocket attached to the wheel spokes. A separate 450-pound counterweight keeps the rider hovering above the ground at the front. Steering is done partly by precessing a 65-pound gyroscope to give yaw, and partly by the rider shifting his weight.

read about, and check out the cut away drawings of it http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/motorwhl/motorwhl5.htm

2007

18 years-old named Ben J. Poss Gulak has created the "One", a motorcycle that uses exactly the same principle as the Segway to work. It has two wheels, except that unlike other bikes that have online, the Uno's are in parallel. To speed the rider leans forward and slow down, back. http://autozine.com.br/diversos/uno-a-motocicleta-de-rodas-paralelas

2009

The Hornet is a concept motorcycle on one wheel created by designer Liam Ferguson. Using a fuel cell of six stages to run on hydrogen made from neodymium-iron that drives two motors of 74 horsepower causing the Hornet to reach 235 km / h. As with bicycles for children, it also has two wheels that support when the bike is stopped. Once the rider accelerates, it leans forward and these wheels are no longer required. A gyroscope calculates the center of gravity of the bike and balances, thus preventing its rider to fall. http://autozine.com.br/motos/hornet-a-motocicleta-do-futuro#more-4159

For a thorough look at all the monowheels, see http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/motorwhl/motorwhl.htm