Re:This has already been described (Score 1)

A better example would be the high-speed gyro stabilized unicycles that Syd Mead designed after the ill-fated "Gyron" project at Ford. (Gyron was a two-wheeled car stabilized with mercury gyroscopes.) Mead's version, seen as a concept painting in his book "Sentinel," had the wheel unfolding from a shell/harness where the gyros were housed. My major complaint was that unless Mead added a small fender, and rider in Seattle would have a crotch that would look like they'd been throwing pots with their primary sexual apparatus. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find out enough about the "Gyron" project to see if Mead's vehicles would work with present technology...