An ultimate wheel is a wheel with two pedals directly connected - similar to a unicycle and impossible wheel. It has no seat or frame but offset and functional pedals. There are several different designs: the most popular involves a disk of wood fitted inside a regular small bicycle wheel rim. Pedals are attached directly to the wooden disk. This design is strong and easy to build but is relatively heavy. A less common style uses metal cross braces instead of wood.
Some mounting and riding techniques include:
- Regular mount - have one pedal lower than the other and step up to the other pedal
- Free jump mount - release the wheel then jump onto the pedals
- Standard riding - simply being able to ride without falling off
- Turning - turning by twisting your body and the wheel
- Bunny hop - grabbing on the wheel and hopping off the ground
- Idling - remaining in one place with one pedal down and one pedal up, rocking the wheel back and forth to keep balance
- Reverse - riding the wheel backwards
Famous quotes containing the words ultimate and/or wheel:
“There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.”
—Patrick Henry Pearse (1879–1916)
“Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather than achievement has tended to keep them from great achievement. But it has also freed them from unreasonable expectations about the satisfactions that professional achievement brings.”
—Phyllis Rose (b. 1942)