The website seems to end with a 2015 electric unicycle but not continue on with covering that form factor. Maybe because most people don't refer to those as monowheels anymore.
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/motorwhl/motorw...
Also airwheel is kind of a random brand to showcase - Trevor Blackwell made an earlier one https://www.trevorblackwell.com/eunicycle and Solowheel got the majority of the earlier patents (and royalties to this day).
That form factor has come a long way since 2015 though.
Check out this MotoGP style race, they're hitting 50+mph: https://youtu.be/fbX6qaWINBk?si=l2G0JnBxxCMP8a7e
I see them every day whizzing across San Francisco, especially on Van Ness passing all the cars.
I know there's at least two shops in SF selling them, one in Potrero and one in Hayes Valley
- https://alienrides.com/collections/electric-unicycles
- https://lastmilepev.com/collections/electric-unicycle-euc
Unicycle seems to be the winner. The "wrap around the body" form factor seems doomed from a physics point of view. That big of a diameter has way too much leverage, and the person sitting inside has too little. So you end up doing a flip instead of stopping. As such, their required stopping distances are very long compared to unicycles which can stop as well as a bicycle, if the rider is skilled.
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/motorwhl/motorw...
Also airwheel is kind of a random brand to showcase - Trevor Blackwell made an earlier one https://www.trevorblackwell.com/eunicycle and Solowheel got the majority of the earlier patents (and royalties to this day).
That form factor has come a long way since 2015 though.
Check out this MotoGP style race, they're hitting 50+mph: https://youtu.be/fbX6qaWINBk?si=l2G0JnBxxCMP8a7e
I see them every day whizzing across San Francisco, especially on Van Ness passing all the cars.
I know there's at least two shops in SF selling them, one in Potrero and one in Hayes Valley - https://alienrides.com/collections/electric-unicycles - https://lastmilepev.com/collections/electric-unicycle-euc
Unicycle seems to be the winner. The "wrap around the body" form factor seems doomed from a physics point of view. That big of a diameter has way too much leverage, and the person sitting inside has too little. So you end up doing a flip instead of stopping. As such, their required stopping distances are very long compared to unicycles which can stop as well as a bicycle, if the rider is skilled.