Now just add some self-juggling clubs and you can be the worldâs laziest clown.
If I was Segway Iâd buy the shit out this just to bury it cause this is what a Segway should have been.
Iâve seen these in Seattle.
I was half tempted to get one when I first heard about them. I still amâŚ
Looks awfully similar to the Solowheel (though the SBU V3 is not as compact), built by an inventor in Washington State just across the river from Portland, available for $1,995. I wonder which came first.
Ok, itâs cool, but why do we need to keep inventing ways to not walk?
This seems like a perfect storm vehicle for everyone taking any other form of transportation to hate. Car drivers wonât want it with them since itâs too slow, bicycle riders wonât want it in their lane since itâs motorized, and pedestrians wonât want it on the sidewalk. I assume that legally itâs treated like an electric motor assisted bicycle. I am very impressed that it can carry 325 pounds.
If nothing else, they need to get a few of these out on the road, so there will be someone who looks sillier than Segway riders. Maybe throw in a free pair of Crocs with each sale.
My brother and his eldest daughters can both ride real unicycles. They find this thing appalling.
Not bad at all, BS! You fit two or three daysâ worth of comedy into a single sentence that time.
Iâm still sniggering.
These folks did the electronics design for Inventistâs SoloWheel and are (according to their About page) working with them on other projects as well.
âIf the good lord intended us to walk he wouldnât have invented roller skates.â
-Willy Wonka
Interesting, I missed that. I guess that explains the similarity, then!
If I ever get one of these, Iâm definitely doing a photoset on it while wearing Crocs, suspenders, a Utilikilt, and a fedora, just for the pleasure of watching all the Internet Fashionistasâ heads explode.
'Cause walking is for suckers.
Iâm still holding out for someone to find a way to market brachiation. Spiderman-style webshooters, maybe?
Gaines and Harvey mounted tumblebugs, and kept abreast of the Cadet
Captain, some twenty-five yards behind the leading wave. It had been a
long time since the Chief Engineer had ridden one of these
silly-looking little vehicles, and he felt awkward. A tumblebug does
not give a man dignity, since it is about the size and shape of a
kitchen stool, gyro-stabilized on a single wheel. But it is perfectly
adapted to patrolling the maze of machinery âdown insideâ, since it
can go through an opening the width of a manâs shoulders, is easily
controlled and will stand patiently upright, waiting, should its rider
dismount.
-Robert Heinlein, âThe Roads Must Rollâ (1940)
Unicycles will never be cool. Iâm not sure about the performance comparison, but I think I much prefer the form factor of the SoloWheel: www.solowheel.com
I can ride a real unicycle, too. In fact, I used to do mountain unicycling, which is a total blast. I still think this looks like fun. Certainly not a replacement for the pedal-power version, but fun nonetheless.
so basically I can now make a really expensive Gizmoduck costume without having to learn how to ride a unicycle? Choice!
