# As promised: Monowheel challenge **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 15, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-promised-monowheel-challenge/812436 "2018-04-15T01:19:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-promised-monowheel-challenge/812436/1 "2018-04-15T01:19:43Z")
As I promised in another thread, here are pictures of the outcome of the Monowheel Challenge. The Challenge started when my modeling friend, **Mad Paul** , looking for a way to get **King of Greeblies** out of a slump, tossed him a rubber off-road RC tire and challenged him to build a monowheel. I looked pathetic, and they let me in on the fun. In fact, I ended up building two monowheels, and **Space Battleship Inafuku** also dealt himself in. The big unveiling was this last Thursday at the Galaxy Hobby Sci-Fi Club meeting, and without further ado, here are pictures, courtesy of **Space Battleship Inafuku** : [**Mad Paul** ’s (the shock absorber works)](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/880/41411813282_1e90e755bb_k.jpg) [**Rocketeer** ’s second build (straight from the box, no mods, paint it and put it together)](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/900/27583763378_d0b29958b3_k.jpg) [**Rocketeer** ’s Mittelgrosses Kriegsrad](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/880/27583765868_d56a2445fe_k.jpg) [**King of Greeblies** ’ entry (he used a lot of leftover guns he had lying around)](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/794/27583767528_ccf04ad881_k.jpg) [**Space Battleship Inafuku** put together this little Dragonball monocycle.](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/791/26583829557_0ad208e680_k.jpg) [Here’s a link to **SBI** ’s Flickr album.](https://www.flickr.com/photos/35774027@N00/sets/72157667796575908/with/26583829557/) ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-promised-monowheel-challenge/812436/2 "2018-04-15T03:13:16Z")
Amazing work. I’m impressed as always. GaryM ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-promised-monowheel-challenge/812436/3 "2018-04-15T03:48:58Z")
I love yours and Mad Paul’s. Questions: What world was your kit from? How does Mad Paul’s driver get down form his seat? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-promised-monowheel-challenge/812436/4 "2018-04-15T04:21:15Z")
Aren’t some of those technically unicycles and not monowheels? Impressive in any case. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-promised-monowheel-challenge/812436/5 "2018-04-15T11:45:42Z")
I’m not sure whether your lass is unsure about how she ought to be driving her contraption, or if she knows _exactly_ how to drive it. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-promised-monowheel-challenge/812436/6 "2018-04-15T15:06:43Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > I love yours and Mad Paul’s. > > Questions: > > What world was your kit from? > > How does Mad Paul’s driver get down form his seat? 😛 I’m not sure what the girl on the blue monowheel is supposed to represent; the kit had a nondescript name: “Monowheel Girl” or some such. The Mittelgrosses Kriegsrad is based off half-remembered Blackhawk comics, but set in a prolonged Great War, not the Blackhawks’ WWII. **Paul** ’s driver alights, I’m sure , with a graceful vault; and mounts with an undignified clamber up the side of the machine. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-promised-monowheel-challenge/812436/7 "2018-04-15T16:39:12Z")
I am so jealous. The Maddest of Skilz!