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Transportation vehicle having a balance plane. In one embodiment the vehicle comprises a sitting skateboard including a pair of wheeled skateboard trucks mounted beneath an elongated planar platform, a balance board and a pair of handles being provided at the seat end of the platform. The front whee

Transportation vehicle having a balance plane. In one embodiment the vehicle comprises a sitting skateboard including a pair of wheeled skateboard trucks mounted beneath an elongated planar platform, a balance board and a pair of handles being provided at the seat end of the platform. The front wheeled truck is fixed to a lazy susan-like mounting which may be locked against rotation in the horizontal plane of the platform but which when unlocked may be turned by the rider\s feet with steering bars fixed to opposite sides of the front truck assembly. In a second embodiment the balance plane is formed at one end of a conventional surfboard to obtain a sitting surfboard.

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A coaster device comprising: an elongated planar platform for supporting a rider, said platform having a forward and rearward end, an underside and a longitudinal center line extending along the length of said platform; wheeled truck means connected to said underside of said platform along said cent

A coaster device comprising: an elongated planar platform for supporting a rider, said platform having a forward and rearward end, an underside and a longitudinal center line extending along the length of said platform; wheeled truck means connected to said underside of said platform along said center line for turning to the left and right of said center line in response to the tilting of said platform respectively to the left and right about said center line; said wheeled truck means including at least one steerable, rotatable wheel, pivotally mounted to said platform for pivoting about an axis perpendicular to the plane of said platform, and means engagable with said platform, and said truck means, for releasably locking said wheel against pivoting; means mounted to said platform at said rearward end for tilting said platform to the left and to the right, said tilting means including an elongated balance board having an upper surface and a transverse line extending perpendicularly to said longitudinal center line at one end of said platform; and a pair of handles fixed to said balance board at opposite sides of said platform for providing leverage when tilting said platform.