cool gadget. but i think it needs a rotating sliding lid in order to: 1. cover dirty wheel with sand on it if you want to bring it with you to your office; 2. this lid should have some kind of plate on it if you want to put a vehicle like a suitcase.
I am really worried about heat management inside the wheel compartment. It is a closed space where all the heat dissipated from the motor, the batteries and the tires accumulates. I suggest putting a large fan, or a blower with high flow rate. Pointing it upwards will maximize the cooling effect.
Arch Stanton facebook.com/chin.lin.313 It is all nice until you see the inside. I also wonder you don't get your ass sued selling this. MY Friends, please help to share this amazing experience I have, before it gets deleted. This is a rip off. I fell hard on my back, and the back of my helmet hit the concrete floor, when the hub motor of my fancy Airwheel X8 stopped working while I was braking from 10+km/h. The X8 then quit working. I only had it for 3 days. I decided to take a look at the inside and see if there's anything I could do to repair it. After all, I am capable of rebuild my dirt bike's 4 stroke engine, complicated gearbox, and am a partner of a Prototype company that handle R&D and prototyping projects from reputable consumer electronics companies. BIG SURPRISE!!!!! I have seen all kinds of poorly made products in my career, but this is an eye opener! Everything inside is fixed in place temporarily with thermal stick glue, which came off easily. Batteries in the battery pack is not Japanese as advertised. Wires are dangerously under gauged and guarantee a high risk of burn through during use and charging. The fault of my X8, was a tiny but critical metal part in the hub motor which broke off under load, because it was made with wrong and undersized material, obviously to cut cost. Estimated cost of manufacturing this RIP OFF, is about $120 US dollars per at max, or $80 if they really go low. $10 board $25 explosive batteries $65 hub motor and tire (Tire is $15) $15 The "Distinctive Look with High-End Essence", plastic injected, plastic cover. $4 to put everything together $1 thermal glue stick (hahaha!) $0 Quality assurance $0 R&D (It is copied by Chinese for the Chinese market) These things, especially the X8, retails $500 dollars US online. $650 in Amazon. In reality, they deserve a retail value of $200 to $250. In fact, they deserve nothing because these are potential BONE BREAKERS. I don't expect Segway quality when I pay $500 for a Chinese designed product, but I also didn't expect to almost break my vertebrae, tailbones. This is taking the unacceptable low quality to another whole new level. This is 20 years ago's Made In China quality !! YOU, Airwheel. Your webpage is fancy, beautifully made, your products trademarked. Nonetheless, you would not throw in another $10 per unit to spec your products properly. $500 dollars, is not a small amount of money. One can spend a couple hundred over a nice bicycle and be sure its head tube would not break apart while riding at 15km/h. That's minimal safety guaranteed. $500 dollars smart phone, should not explode in your face. $500 dollars coffee machine, won't burn up. $500 dollars, can buy you a DVD player, a microwave machine, an espresso maker, a whole lot of consumer products with exchange for a full tank of gas, and a big take away at Burger King. So, why a $500 self balancing unicycle (oh what a fancy phrase) capable of traveling at the speed of 18km/h, has an internal that's held together by thermal glue, and a under spec'ed hub motor that can fail without warning? My friends. If you are into this thing, I don't blame you. After all, I bought one, it's fun, and we are all into futuristic thingy. BUT, make sure you wear a full face helmet, a full off road bike suit and gears, and prepare to BREAK some bones while riding, because it comes with guarantee. As for the fancy marketing image of having this thing take you to mass transit on your way to work..... Just don't do it. You do not want to fuck yourself up in front of people while failing on the road. Arrived at the office with a broken wrist, dislodged jaws, knees without knee caps, broken through PRADA apparel.
It's a bit tricky to compare peak power with nominal power of the AW, max speed of the solowheel with first beep of the AW (max is 18, not so far from 20). More safety? Alerts? Where? Just remember me, what's the capacity of the batteries, especially the first model? 500bucks, just a new solowheel battery?! I have nothing against solowheel, these are good products, although too pricy (I would love to have one if it would be cheaper), but a good product can be sold without lying.
***** Ça dépend. Je prends le bus, je prends le velib et parfois la moto mais de moins en moins. Marcher c'est toujours mieux. Ce qui m'inquiète c'est tous ces gens avec leur téléphone portable à la main qui roulent à 16km/h sans aucune protection, je risque de leur faire très mal le jour où j'ai pris la moto, parfois même les jours de velib.
***** Le Solowheel c'est 2000€ a l'achat sur votre site, il serait bon aussi de le précisé, a ce prix qui a augmenté depuis 3 ans, vous devez être une poignée d’utilisateurs.
Le problème ne vient pas de la roue s'ils utilisent leur téléphone en même temps. Je trouve cette attitude tout aussi dangereuse à vélo. C'est une question de responsabilité, pas de véhicule. Ce sont les utilisateurs qu'il faut éduquer, pas les outils qu'on doit brider. On voit même des piétons traverser le nez dans le smartphone, et j'ai déjà m'en prendre plusieurs alors que j'étais à velo. Je change de lieu de travail entre midi et 13h, alors marcher je veux bien, mais il faudra m'expliquer comment faire 4km en un quart d'heure. Quant à l'argument du prix, je ne peux qu'adhérer. Comme quoi tout le monde a un peu raison. :)
+BOURDEAU Vincent 2014, un piéton moyen fait 1min pour 100m, soit 6kmh. Votre 4kmh me semble quelque peu biaisé en faveur des uni-roues. Ensuite les trajets à pied (ou en moyens lents comme un uni-roue) de 1km sont rares ; même moi qui suis en vélo (VTT bonnes suspensions AV et AR, 3x9 vitesses transformés par moi pour plus grande vitesse) je fais habituellement bien moins ; mais quand je vais à Paris (15km, 150m dénivellé, feux rouges, nids de poule, 45min à l'aller) je suis bien content de n'être pas avec une patinette ou pire encore un Segway ou un uni-roue ! Sun 04 Oct 2015 07:05 GMT
I thought the same thing but these eucs typically have a weight limit of 275lbs and it actually gives those quad muscles a workout when squeezing them together to keep balance.
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cool gadget. but i think it needs a rotating sliding lid in order to: 1. cover dirty wheel with sand on it if you want to bring it with you to your office; 2. this lid should have some kind of plate on it if you want to put a vehicle like a suitcase.
I am really worried about heat management inside the wheel compartment. It is a closed space where all the heat dissipated from the motor, the batteries and the tires accumulates. I suggest putting a large fan, or a blower with high flow rate. Pointing it upwards will maximize the cooling effect.
Arch Stanton
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It is all nice until you see the inside. I also wonder you don't get your ass sued selling this.
MY Friends, please help to share this amazing experience I have, before it gets deleted.
This is a rip off.
I fell hard on my back, and the back of my helmet hit the concrete floor, when the hub motor of my fancy Airwheel X8 stopped working while I was braking from 10+km/h.
The X8 then quit working. I only had it for 3 days.
I decided to take a look at the inside and see if there's anything I could do to repair it. After all, I am capable of rebuild my dirt bike's 4 stroke engine, complicated gearbox, and am a partner of a Prototype company that handle R&D and prototyping projects from reputable consumer electronics companies.
BIG SURPRISE!!!!! I have seen all kinds of poorly made products in my career, but this is an eye opener! Everything inside is fixed in place temporarily with thermal stick glue, which came off easily.
Batteries in the battery pack is not Japanese as advertised.
Wires are dangerously under gauged and guarantee a high risk of burn through during use and charging.
The fault of my X8, was a tiny but critical metal part in the hub motor which broke off under load, because it was made with wrong and undersized material, obviously to cut cost.
Estimated cost of manufacturing this RIP OFF, is about $120 US dollars per at max, or $80 if they really go low.
$10 board
$25 explosive batteries
$65 hub motor and tire (Tire is $15)
$15 The "Distinctive Look with High-End Essence", plastic injected, plastic cover.
$4 to put everything together
$1 thermal glue stick (hahaha!)
$0 Quality assurance
$0 R&D (It is copied by Chinese for the Chinese market)
These things, especially the X8, retails $500 dollars US online. $650 in Amazon. In reality, they deserve a retail value of $200 to $250. In fact, they deserve nothing because these are potential BONE BREAKERS.
I don't expect Segway quality when I pay $500 for a Chinese designed product, but I also didn't expect to almost break my vertebrae, tailbones.
This is taking the unacceptable low quality to another whole new level. This is 20 years ago's Made In China quality !!
YOU, Airwheel. Your webpage is fancy, beautifully made, your products trademarked. Nonetheless, you would not throw in another $10 per unit to spec your products properly.
$500 dollars, is not a small amount of money. One can spend a couple hundred over a nice bicycle and be sure its head tube would not break apart while riding at 15km/h. That's minimal safety guaranteed.
$500 dollars smart phone, should not explode in your face.
$500 dollars coffee machine, won't burn up.
$500 dollars, can buy you a DVD player, a microwave machine, an espresso maker, a whole lot of consumer products with exchange for a full tank of gas, and a big take away at Burger King.
So, why a $500 self balancing unicycle (oh what a fancy phrase) capable of traveling at the speed of 18km/h, has an internal that's held together by thermal glue, and a under spec'ed hub motor that can fail without warning?
My friends. If you are into this thing, I don't blame you. After all, I bought one, it's fun, and we are all into futuristic thingy.
BUT, make sure you wear a full face helmet, a full off road bike suit and gears, and prepare to BREAK some bones while riding, because it comes with guarantee.
As for the fancy marketing image of having this thing take you to mass transit on your way to work..... Just don't do it. You do not want to fuck yourself up in front of people while failing on the road. Arrived at the office with a broken wrist, dislodged jaws, knees without knee caps, broken through PRADA apparel.
golferchin76 Sorry you had this experience with the Chinese knock-off. The Solowheel in this video is the quality original US model.
Pour l'avoir essayé c'est vraiment cool à faire. Ca nécessite un peu d'équilibre au départ, tout comme le vélo.
Because the first thing you should do before gliding down the street is start a phone conversation.
Ressemble beaucoup à l'Uni Wheel. Est-ce la même chose?
what is better ? *SOLOWHEEL* or a *AIRWHEEL*
I want to buy one, but before I want to know which..... ?
TX in advance for an answer !!
It's a bit tricky to compare peak power with nominal power of the AW, max speed of the solowheel with first beep of the AW (max is 18, not so far from 20).
More safety? Alerts? Where? Just remember me, what's the capacity of the batteries, especially the first model? 500bucks, just a new solowheel battery?!
I have nothing against solowheel, these are good products, although too pricy (I would love to have one if it would be cheaper), but a good product can be sold without lying.
La musique est sympa en tout cas ! Est-ce que c'est possible d'avoir le titre et l'artiste ?
How is it uphill?
I think I'd try the cheaper brand first just to see if I could ride the damned thing and if I actually got any use out of it.
Can see dismounting or having to stop at lights a problem
Quelle est la législation en FRance pour ça?
C'est dej pas clair pour les trottinettes ....
Et marcher ça vous dit pas ?
***** Ça dépend. Je prends le bus, je prends le velib et parfois la moto mais de moins en moins. Marcher c'est toujours mieux. Ce qui m'inquiète c'est tous ces gens avec leur téléphone portable à la main qui roulent à 16km/h sans aucune protection, je risque de leur faire très mal le jour où j'ai pris la moto, parfois même les jours de velib.
***** Le Solowheel c'est 2000€ a l'achat sur votre site, il serait bon aussi de le précisé, a ce prix qui a augmenté depuis 3 ans, vous devez être une poignée d’utilisateurs.
Le problème ne vient pas de la roue s'ils utilisent leur téléphone en même temps. Je trouve cette attitude tout aussi dangereuse à vélo. C'est une question de responsabilité, pas de véhicule. Ce sont les utilisateurs qu'il faut éduquer, pas les outils qu'on doit brider. On voit même des piétons traverser le nez dans le smartphone, et j'ai déjà m'en prendre plusieurs alors que j'étais à velo.
Je change de lieu de travail entre midi et 13h, alors marcher je veux bien, mais il faudra m'expliquer comment faire 4km en un quart d'heure.
Quant à l'argument du prix, je ne peux qu'adhérer.
Comme quoi tout le monde a un peu raison. :)
+BOURDEAU Vincent 2014, un piéton moyen fait 1min pour 100m, soit 6kmh. Votre 4kmh me semble quelque peu biaisé en faveur des uni-roues.
Ensuite les trajets à pied (ou en moyens lents comme un uni-roue) de 1km sont rares ; même moi qui suis en vélo (VTT bonnes suspensions AV et AR, 3x9 vitesses transformés par moi pour plus grande vitesse) je fais habituellement bien moins ; mais quand je vais à Paris (15km, 150m dénivellé, feux rouges, nids de poule, 45min à l'aller) je suis bien content de n'être pas avec une patinette ou pire encore un Segway ou un uni-roue !
Sun 04 Oct 2015 07:05 GMT
What heels??? Boy are you easy to please! I like being able to see the cameraman on a wheel shooting here reflected in the windows.
What is this music?
暴君ハバネロ Basement Skylights - Faces
Thank you so much!!!!
Im buying this, great video, great music, great theme and damn she sexy too.
well, this is another great invention ,however, i can clearly see that obesity will go viral since we're going to forget WALKING with this kinda stuff
I thought the same thing but these eucs typically have a weight limit of 275lbs and it actually gives those quad muscles a workout when squeezing them together to keep balance.
I want one!!
Oh good ^^*
that's pretty hardcore. Heels!?!?! skillz
FACES: BASEMENT SKYLIGHTS
I have a wheel she can ride... if u know what I mean...
ha ben c'est génial, ce truc !
Nice!
nice
Ha ouais quand méme !!!
mike hondo
needs backpack battery extender
2000€ !!! un peu l'arnaque quand même !!!
Who cares about straight lines. Where are the sharp turns?