The Uno

The Uno’s custom hoops aren’t front and rear like a motorcycle’s, but side by side, rising and falling independently over the road as it leans. 

The inventor is 19-year-old Ben J. Poss Gulak, who in 2006 took at 3 week trip with his family to China and saw all the pollution and decided he wanted to help do something about it.  He put college plans on hold and set out to create a non-polluting vehicle that had style.

At Toronto’s National Motorcycle Show in March, he showed the Uno off to Russell Mitchell of Exile Cycles, a custom bike builder and a veteran of Speed Channel’s “Build or Bust” series, who jumped aboard and cruised with no trouble.

He will go to Shanghai to talk with a company about developing the bike and possibly putting it into production. At the moment, he is fine tuning the Uno.

Photo courtesy Ben Gulak