I learned how to ride this today in less than 5 minutes. It's so much fun. I'm learning how to turn tomorrow. I can't wait to take this out to the beach boardwalk
This thing looks really great, however I can't justify spending $2,000 on it. For $2,000 you could buy a used car or an actually electric bike. Maybe if the price comes down significantly this thing would be a gold mine.
My wishes for future models. No learning curve at all, just much better self balancing, the ability for it to follow you around, or rather, follow your cell phone around, so if you get off, go walk around something you wouldn't want to ride on, it can then safely navigate that and there's no sad picking it up, putting it down over and over on every trip, also a handle bar that retracts, i don't see how you wouldn't want that, then you don't have to steer it with your calves! just lean the grip wherever and have much more controllable motion. I'd also love to see this tech adapted for disabled people, no one has really shook up the mobility scooter market since they went from being powered by steam to electric
If you want to wish for something wish that a future model hovers instead of having to use a wheel :) But seriously they really need to supply the unit with a larger battery as the stock battery is only 122WH and rather puny compared to the massive rated motor of 1500W. There is a RU-vid video if you search with someone testing the range and only squeezed out a mare 5-6 miles while doing a few errands around his town. Solowheel website states range of 10 miles. Granted that is tested in ideal conditions it is rather poor for real world use especually if you are far from home and it cuts out on you while you are in the belief that you still have lots of power left.
If this wheel gets wet, will it still work? If I ride through water puddle and the electronics inside get wet, will it still perform without any complications? Please let us all know!
Where is the Gyroscope hidden? in the hub motor or on the circuit board? Is there any sensor that control the front-back balancing in the hub motor? or is it all the sensors or controls are in the circuit board?
hi ..will you be making one with a smal seat ..i'm disabled -so can't stand for long but this seems to also be able to be seat able and work too ?? thanks ..Rich
agreed but segways were expensive when i first talked to their engineering team ..its a new technology but the future ..if england ever sorts its roads n pavements lol ^^ hugs dudey x
The fact that you can pick it up and carry it with you makes it a bit harder to steal, if only could outrun someone who is sprinting... or.. jogging... of falling off balance but still catching themselves, or going down the stairs drunk but holding onto stair railings desperately.
Solowheel should spin-off from Inventist. Or have it's on website. Inventist's other products just make Solowheel look gimmicky. And there's no product info at all. Why's that? I want to know about the distance per charge. How long does it take to fully charge? How much does it weigh? Just basic info. :-(
20 some pounds takes about 2 hours to charge and can last for up to 20miles on a charge.... i watched a few videos and one was an interview where they mentioned some facts
as wonderful as it is its failed before it began the price is too much for it to ever take off the price is way too much for the components of the device and that is the death of it unless this produce can be sold under $400 why bother even marketing it
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So we wanted to buy a solo wheel for J because his wife stole his car and he cant get his license in canada for another year - Too expensive......? :-( We love solo wheel.
Wow really so much changed in 7 years. I got a 5000km mileage in only 1 month and top speed at 84km/h using the modern EUC veteran Sherman in my daily work in food Delivery )))
Funny, you could always read this kind of comments under nearly every thing. Rethink what you just said. Almost everything would sell better if its cheap. A private Jet for 1000 bucks? I'd buy one. My owne island for 5000? Where can i sign?
NeoDerGrose Actually you can get a car for $200. It will be a $200 dollar piece of shit but it is possible. For $500 to $1500 you can get get a pretty good used car.
What's technical about it? Drive ten minutes around just about any town and you'll see a cheap car for sale. As for the hobby and troll comment, It's overused and frankly . . . pathetic.
Gotta laugh at the morons screaming "learn to walk", "this will make you fat", "why are humans so lazy" etc. Did they think the same when skateboards were invented? This is FUN for gods sake.
richmondhillsangat yeah I agree about bicycle, until it was stolen... (locked and take the wheel with me, but here in my country people will still disassemble the component and sell it as scrap metal or black market for bike components). This provide one solution, convenient and security, but not for saving money.
I want to ride one of these while carrying a boom box 70's style playing Weird Al Yankovic's "White and nerdy" on an endless loop. But change the one line to "See me rolln' on my Solowheel..."
Take the price down to around $700 to $900 and then it will sell. At $2k I just can't justify buying something like this when there are better alternatives like a standard, electric assist and gas engine assist bicycles for under $1k and Segway can be had for about the same price or just another grand and Segway is far more controllable and stable.
You could only dream about stuff like this when I was a kid. It was the stuff of wild sci-fi or cartoons. Here we are with it in reality.... whoa.. bit o future shock.
It would sure beat walking on the filth encrusted streets of San Francisco. I would consider purchasing this product if you can make it affordable without losing your share of profit, I think I could spend a grand for this. Layaway plans? Ha ha ha
