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Posted 11.18.11 at 12:02 pm 1 Comments

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A Long Way to Fall: June 1920

Despite the inherent danger in his precarious position (which is clearly recognized by the man behind him) the rider of this extra-tall unicycle seems content to read his morning paper rather than look where he's going. We found ourselves riddled with questions such as: what happens if a car drives by? And how'd he get up there in the first place? The answers have been lost to the sands of time, but luckily, this picture has not.

Read the full story in The Man Higher Up

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Read the article: Archive Gallery: Single-Wheeled Vehicles Trundle Through The Decades

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aarontco

11/18/11 at 2:09 pm

Actually, Honda has a way cooler, much smaller electric unicycle called the "personal mobility device"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,554822,00.html

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