Well I looked it up on Wikipedia.


Found out you should never attempt to impersonate a gerbil while operating a mono wheel. I didn't know gerbils tried to impersonate hamsters. Kind of like watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild kingdom today.


Risk of "gerbiling". In most designs, if the driver accelerates or brakes too hard, it is possible that the force applied overcomes the force of gravity keeping the rider at the bottom of the wheel, sending the rider spinning around the inside of the wheel. This is known as gerbiling because it has some similarity to the situation of a gerbil running too quickly inside of a hamster wheel.