The Belly-wheel is here ...

mclxviii · 07 May, 2010, 05:51:32 AM

http://www.flixxy.com/honda-u3-x-personal-mobility-device.htm

Honda has officially invented the belly-wheel.

(cf: http://www.2000adonline.com/vault/characters/fatties)

TordelBack · 07 May, 2010, 07:11:30 AM

Isn't that just one of the in-universe adverts from Wall-E?

Make it much bigger, put a seat in the middle of the hub, and I could quite go for General Grievous' wheelbike.

O Lucky Stevie! · 07 May, 2010, 07:37:10 AM

Uh oh! Slippery Jim beware. Aren't these the babies that the cops ride in Harry Harrison's books?

Satanist · 07 May, 2010, 08:16:59 AM

Its all well and good to glide about with a model on top but what happens when it has to move about a bigger boned chap?

Hoagy · 07 May, 2010, 09:14:29 AM

Yeah and who really is up to retaining that upright seated position for the whole trip to the shops??

Peter Wolf · 07 May, 2010, 01:15:07 PM

It looks completely ridiculous.

mclxviii · 07 May, 2010, 01:44:46 PM

I would have to chop mine and put a McClellan saddle on it and have mounts for my Schofield carbine and my Colt Walker pistols.

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Mike Gloady · 07 May, 2010, 02:44:02 PM

Quote from: The Satanist on 07 May, 2010, 08:16:59 AM
Its all well and good to glide about with a model on top but what happens when it has to move about a bigger boned chap?

Those would be big, squishy floppy bones we have on our fronts, right? The tum tum bone it's called.

Van Dom · 07 May, 2010, 02:48:18 PM

Ohhhh I want one of those!!!!

(not the wheel thing, the blonde chick riding it...!)

Colin MacNeil · 07 May, 2010, 03:49:53 PM

Quote from: mclxviii on 07 May, 2010, 05:51:32 AM
http://www.flixxy.com/honda-u3-x-personal-mobility-device.htm

Honda has officially invented the belly-wheel.

(cf: http://www.2000adonline.com/vault/characters/fatties)

That's not a belly wheel! That's a swivelly chair.
My wife actually saw a real belly wheel in America in the mid 90's, at a gamer's convention unsurprisingly. It was a home-made belly wheel. A small table with castor wheels, which fitted under the chap's belly to support it. Yes, really! They do exist.

vzzbux · 07 May, 2010, 11:17:50 PM

I want one.

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Dandontdare · 07 May, 2010, 11:34:22 PM

It's the expression of barely concealed terror, like they're doing some extreme sport, that I like.

I look forward to the day that I can glide around perfectly level surfaces in a manner that is almost as easy as walking.

Devons Daddy · 08 May, 2010, 07:59:41 AM

whilst i was in disney a couple of years back, i noticed many FATTIES with the electric scooter things, merely because they where to damn lazy to walk.

once again, 2k called it right on the money.

Bubba Zebill · 17 July, 2012, 01:26:41 PM

A proto-belly-wheel concept from a drug ad in 1951. apologies if this has been posted.
http://www.decodog.com/inven/MD/md28013.jpg