Solowheel - 12mph step-on-and-go unicycle

Aurora · Post by **Aurora** » 04 Mar 2011, 05:40

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.

PS_RalphW · Post by **PS_RalphW** » 04 Mar 2011, 10:49

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...

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 04 Mar 2011, 11:25

It's the next skateboard.

RogueMale · Post by **RogueMale** » 10 Mar 2011, 22:59

Half a Segway.

An ex cow-orker used to ride to work on a unicycle. I kid you not.

PS_RalphW · Post by **PS_RalphW** » 10 Mar 2011, 23:11

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...

RogueMale · Post by **RogueMale** » 10 Mar 2011, 23:55

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.

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 11 Mar 2011, 02:28

Looks like he's carrying a spare wheel in his pocket, one of those emergency short trip ones.