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Can you imagine a kind of personnel transport, which moves you quickly and silently through
crowds of people.
Which is very compact and can easily be carried like a bag, which doesn’t need fuel and
finally which is even able to move you by air.
Not real?
Well as to air I slightly exaggerated.
But all the rest are quite real today, contemporary technologies can provide us now with a transport
that was a fiction jast few years ago.
One kind of this transport is so called Solowheel or gyroscooter (джайроскутер).
And today we will review the most popular models of these devices and will compare them
with each other.
And this is Max, he is very fond of these devices, he knows about them everything and
by the way he everyday goes to his office by this gyroscooter.
Lets ask him few questions now.
-Is this just an entertainment or it may be used like a real transport?
-The both.
But firstly I think it’s a real and effective transport, but at the same time it’s an
entertainment.
It may be used everywhere even on the country footways.
Today qualitative solowheels are quite powerful devices – the newest motors with the best
batteries provide a very fast acceleration and maximum speed is about 15 miles per hour
and their range is about 20 miles.
The complete charging takes about two hours, but you can charge a device just for half
a hour while having coffee and it will allow you to go for 10 miles.
The weight on average is about 10 kilos.
It may seem that it is very tough and dangerous to ride on a solowheel.
But in fact it is much simpler that it may seem.
If you are able to ride on a bicycle you may be sure that you can ride on solowheel after
a little practice.
- When someone sees a solowheel riding for the first time he may think that it is very
difficult like a circus performance.
What can you say?
How long will it take to get the hung of it?
- On average it may take about a day of practice.
Someone may learn it just for half an hour and someone may need a week.
But most people can ride very well just after about a day of practice.
And I recommend to wear a helmet and some protective clothes especially if you are a
newbie.
- What about children?
When can they start to ride?
- Just when they can ride a bicycle about at 7 years old.
Well what is the secret of the device?
Why riders can so easily balance on only one wheel?
The point is that this device is designed on the base of gyroscope.
It means that a computer tracks your position on a device and equilibrate all your inclinations.
For example when you are riding you are going to fall forward or backwards but the computer
simply won’t allow you to do that.
It will move according to your inclinations and will prevent you from falling.
In this way all that you need its just to balance yourself as if you rode on bicycle.
-What is the maximum speed?
- It is about 15 miles per hour.
Well, it can go even faster, but it may be dangerous.
Mind that when you are riding 15 miles per hour you can at any moment jump off and run
on your foot.
But if you go faster and jump off you will fall.
-Well we see that these devices perfectly move on a flat road.
What about some rough ground like snow and sand?
- First of all solowheels can be used in rainy weather, they have waterproof protection IP65.
We may ride among puddles and on snow without any difficulties and any harm for the device.
But mind that it is a bit harder to ride on a rough ground.
It quite differs from riding on a flat road, so be careful when you are going off-road.
Some qualitative solowheels are quite powerful and effective even on offroad.
Well of course it is hardly possible to go through swamps.
But on a regular country roads they may be used without any problems.
These devices are very maneuverable so its easy to go around obstacles and they have
enough power to climb rather high slopes.
Moreover many people ride on their solowheels even in winter.
They just equip winter tire not to slide on a frosty roads.
Well Lets do some tests for the devices.
For our tests we have American brand solowheel and two cheap Chinese wheels Joyor and IPS.
-American device costs three times more than its Chinese analogs.
And what is the practical difference between them?
-American wheel is much more powerful.
Chinese wheels are about 800 watts and solowheel is 2 kilowatts.
-How can we see the difference of power in practice?
-Well I will show you it now.
Firstly we tried the cheapest Chinese wheel IPS.
As you can see it doesn’t require much efforts to make the device lean forward.
And you should know that when you are riding such touching the ground means your unavoidable
falling.
Then we tested Joyour and it was much more difficult to touch the ground with this wheel.
But finally we managed to do that.
And as to Solowheel we didn’t manage to lean it to the ground at all.
Now lets see how the devices can handle a 24 degree slope.
The first – IPS the cheapest model.
The result is not impressive.
Then Joyor.
Much better – it almost managed to do the slope.
And solowheel gets on the top without much efforts.
Then we found out that IPS can’t go on a rough ground, it switches off when you are
trying to go even a little faster.
Now lets see the maximum speed.
IPS switched off at 14 km/h Joyor showed us 18 km/h
And the result of Solowheel is 24 km/h
And there is another important thing when we are talking about these devices.
There are many reports in the Internet about self-ignitions of the wheels.
But almost all the reports tell us about cheap noname Chinese devices.
Lets try to find out what the ignitions were caused by?
-Now you see some stuff that every wheel contains inside.
At the left it is noname wheel.
And at the right it’s a brand wheel.
The point is that noname battery is not qualitative and it may take fire while charging.
And this is brand parts.
Here we have a quality battery and as you can see everything is covered with fire-prevention
material.
That is why we strongly not recommend to choose noname devices.
Well, lets sum up this video.
I think such devices as monowheels have a great future.
Yes…today they are a bit weighty, and the range leaves much to be desired.
But even now they can impress you.
They are very compact, fast and flexible, and I think soon they will be considered as
a completely regular thing…like umbrellas.
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