Mystery monowheel materializes

We thought we had canvassed the entire history of mystery monowheels several months ago with our post on the Motoruota, but as this recent photo from the Steampunk Vehicles tumblr blog shows, we haven’t yet seen them all. As is typical with tumblogs, the image came without any information, so all we can say for […]

Motoruota: The Monowheel That Might’ve

The Motoruota as it appeared in a 1927 issue of Motorcycling magazine Dedicated monowheel addicts will notice that in last week’s post on the Goventosa monowheel, we made no mention of Douglas Self’s Museum of Retro Technology and his extensive collection of monowheel photos. That’s because we committed the cardinal sin of  historical research: We […]

M. Goventosa’s one wheel to obscurity

We’ve been puzzling over this image posted to the H.A.M.B.’s pre-WWII photos thread for a few days. Originally posted by swi66, we’ve been able to determine that a Mr. M. Goventosa of Udine, Italy, built this monowheel in 1931, and that it was capable of 150 KPH, or about 93 MPH. And thaaaat’s about it. […]