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Solowheel - 12mph step-on-and-go unicycle
Posted: 04 Mar 2011, 05:40
by Aurora
Daily Wail - 04/03/11
A designer has reinvented the wheel - with the world's smallest self-balancing unicycle.
Suitable for the daily commute or for weekend leisure, the one-wheel machine is powered by a 1,000-watt electric motor that generates a top speed of 12mph.
Users place their feet on a foldable platform either side of the wheel and simply lean forward to move, back to stop and left and right to turn.
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'Solowheel provides users with an easy, uncomplicated, straightforward ride.'
The unicycle costs £975 and will be available in the UK from next month.
If these catch on, I'm sure they'll soon be pursued by a fleet of black VW Golfs.
Posted: 04 Mar 2011, 10:49
by PS_RalphW
It will only be a matter of time before somebody os prosecuted for riding one on the pavement.
It also is clearly not a street legal cycle. (but then, nor is a unicycle...)
There is a US version which comes with a saddle to sit on.
I would hate to ride one on my journey to work. No way would it cope with the pot holes...
Posted: 04 Mar 2011, 11:25
by emordnilap
It's the next skateboard.
Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 22:59
by RogueMale
Half a Segway.
An ex cow-orker used to ride to work on a unicycle. I kid you not.
Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 23:11
by PS_RalphW
There are a few unicyclists here in Cambridge. I used to know one of them, a expert in cyber security now, I think.
Passed one not so long ago with handlebars
You can get them with gears. Come to to think about it, there is one in our shed...
Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 23:55
by RogueMale
RalphW wrote:There are a few unicyclists here in Cambridge. I used to know one of them, a expert in cyber security now, I think.
That's where he went.
Posted: 11 Mar 2011, 02:28
by kenneal - lagger
Looks like he's carrying a spare wheel in his pocket, one of those emergency short trip ones.