# Capri Sun Commercial **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 19, 2007, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capri-sun-commercial/400772 "2007-04-19T12:11:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capri-sun-commercial/400772/1 "2007-04-19T12:11:42Z")
I was watching an interesting program on Dolphins last night on Animal Planet. An ad came on for the drink Capri Sun, and it was set on a beach. It opens on two kids riding something I didn’t know existed – and I’m still not convinced it does. Big wheel. That’s what it was, really. Two kids, each sitting on a minibike body, but instead of two wheels, they’re sitting inside one big, thin wheel, like they’re riding on the inside rim of a wagon-wheel. The rest of the commercial was all CGI’d up, but the two vehicles make a re-appearance at the end, and it looked real enough. Anyone else seen it? Know what I’m talking about? Know what they’re called? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capri-sun-commercial/400772/2 "2007-04-19T13:06:25Z")
There certainly are real versions of what you’re describing - I don’t know what they’re called, but they exist. They’re supposedly very difficult to ride for several reasons: -Hard to see where you’re going when you’re inside the wheel, staring at the inner rim -Hard to brake - if the tyre grips the road too well, you just start rolling over and over -Hard to turn - a big heavy wheel means a lot of gyroscopic conservation of momentum to work against. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capri-sun-commercial/400772/3 "2007-04-19T13:09:14Z")
Here’s one: [http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/2005/06/21/a-single-wheeled-ride-inside-conveyance-vehicle/](http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/2005/06/21/a-single-wheeled-ride-inside-conveyance-vehicle/) This is sufficiently more streamlined and nice-looking than the devices I’d seen before, which were probably all custom-built, however, this one I think fits your description quite closely ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capri-sun-commercial/400772/4 "2007-04-19T13:50:30Z")
Those things would probably work better if they had dildo-like controls to be inserted into the anus and the mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capri-sun-commercial/400772/5 "2007-04-19T14:35:50Z")
Introducing the CMKELLERCORP® Spit Roast™ Uniwheeler! ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capri-sun-commercial/400772/6 "2007-04-19T15:03:12Z")
[Monowheels?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monowheel) ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capri-sun-commercial/400772/7 "2007-04-19T16:57:36Z")
[QUOTE=cmkeller] Those things would probably work better if they had dildo-like controls to be inserted into the anus and the mouth. [/QUOTE] With a design _a la_ Giger? Perfect! Yes, that’s exactly what I was looking for, everyone. Many thanks! I love this place … ---
**Author:** ![hottrnaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@hottrnaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hottrnaz)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capri-sun-commercial/400772/8 "2010-12-31T23:27:10Z")
> [@Daithi\_Lacha](#): > > I was watching an interesting program on Dolphins last night on Animal Planet. An ad came on for the drink Capri Sun, and it was set on a beach. It opens on two kids riding something I didn’t know existed – and I’m still not convinced it does. > > Big wheel. That’s what it was, really. Two kids, each sitting on a minibike body, but instead of two wheels, they’re sitting inside one big, thin wheel, like they’re riding on the inside rim of a wagon-wheel. The rest of the commercial was all CGI’d up, but the two vehicles make a re-appearance at the end, and it looked real enough. > > Anyone else seen it? Know what I’m talking about? Know what they’re called? It’s called a monocycle, hammacher-schlemmer makes them.