From Shonen Club magazine 1936. Via: Pink Tentacle

(designer unknown) via: Le Container

Why ride a motorcycle wearing a helmet when you can ride in your helmet?. Krasimir Emilov's "Rollersphere" concept. Via: Yanko Design

Denmark 2046.

Scouzy's amazing spherical wheeled bike. Via: The Brothers Brick

Pierre Yohanes Lubis Halb Organismus.

So you’d like to have a tiny motorcycle. So you’d like to have a fast motorcycle. So you’d like to have a safe motorcycle. I am sorry you cannot have all three! What you’ve got here is a very fast, very dangerous vehicle. It’s called the Halbo, and it’s got a BMW stamp on it. It’s tiny and it’s got a front wheel motor combined with a sphere form rear wheel.

Designer Pierre Yohanes Lubis claims the target user for this vehicle is a “vibrant eco-minded young individual.” Speed on! It’s half the size of the “regular high end motorcycle,” and it’s full name is Halb Organismus.

Via: Yanko Design

modernmechanix: The super cycle of 1936.

(click to enlarge) Via: modernmechanix

modernmechanix: wooden balls speed cycle races.

via: modernmechanix

CG Channel: Mariusz Kadewski's "Ball Bike" concept.

Mariusz Kadewski's amazing "ball bike" concept, created with a scanned pen sketch and then finished in photoshop.

Anime: SoltyRei and The Blue Comet.

1/12 scale Model picts via uselessthoughts

Wiki:

"SoltyRei (ソルティレイ Sorutirei?) is a Japanese anime series by GONZO and AIC combining attributes of drama and sci-fi, about the inhabitants of a city where an Aurora prevents aerial travel. It is directed by Yoshimasa Hiraike and co-produced by TV Asahi, GONZO and AIC with music by Toshiyuki Ōmori.

Secondary character in the series Rose Anderson is vain, attention-seeking bandit who calls herself "The Blue Comet". She is honest, yet unyielding, proud, and selfish. Although she and her brothers donate their spoils to the Unregistered Citizens clustered in the city's underground and outskirts, they often cause large amounts of public damage in the process. She is armed with a laser-based hand pistol, and she rides a large motorcycle with three spherical wheels in front, driving wheels behind, and a cannon hidden in the frame. She occasionally hums the song "Return to love (Jazz version of the series theme music)" to calm herself."

The bike was designed by anime artist Range Murtata

deviant Art: ulyses.

Here's futuristic bike teaser for ulyses next upcoming 'big' project.

Tilmann Schlootz's Audi Snook.

Via Trendhunter:

"While we may laugh at this monowheel car concept by designer Tilmann Schlootz, it has actually won a Michelin Challenge Design Award 2008. It will also be showcased at the “Hannover Fair” from 21-25 April 2008.

How does it work? Tilmann Schlootz describes it as, “The Magic Egg of Columbus, or better, two billard balls standing on each other: this icon is my origin on the way of reducing the hardware demands of physical mobility to the minimum. One point touching the ground, the inverse pendulum in motion. Agility through instability, controlled by artificial intelligence - that is my formal issue.”

Eric Staller's Roly-Poly.

Via Eric Staller.com

"ROLY-POLY is a 2m (6') diameter ball covered with 600 electro-luminescent strips that can be computerized into an almost infinite array of patterns. Underneath the ball was a 3-wheel battery-powered golf cart. At night, the lights give the illusion of a ball rolling down the street with no apparent driver or means of propulsion. The ball gives off a beautiful blue glow."