Originally Posted by
LanghamP
You aren't competent to offer advice on electric unicycles because you haven't ridden one, or ridden one so little that you haven't an inkling as to its size and brand, or haven't attempted to ride one in practice (ie on the street), or you wheeled around a broken wheel and judged all wheels with that single sample point.
You have no idea what you are talking about. We
sold them. I rode them, taught people to ride them, evaluated competing models, intentionally overleaned them into overcurrent shutdown to find the limits of the system, disassembled them and rebuilt them in other forms, fixed them...
You just can't accept that fact that someone who took a cold, hard, look at the idea came to the supported conclusion that your
toy has too many issues to be practical transport for most people.
And that's even after you yourself agreed with some of the key facts behind this - ie, they are dangerous at speed, and they weigh in the neighborhood of 30 pounds.
In narrow circumstances of good safe paths, a permissive legal and social environment, no stairs to carry it up, and a moderately daring rider - sure, it can work. But a scooter would be safer and easier, and a bike or walking would give you exercise. So mostly you're left with the sci-fi cool factor.
Enjoy riding yours.