@cascadewheeler I’m 6’2” 205 pounds and an athlete. The wheel isn’t safe under advertised numbers. It flat out isn’t. It’s a fifteen mph board.

@celebro wrong attitude. I ride all sorts of vehicles. They advertise the abilities of the board. It doesn’t deliver. The motor is too weak for what they’re trying to do. If they advertised a 15 mph board no one would be complaining.

I expect you’re right about all the electronics. A certain portion of the board would have to be made in the USA. Probably the deck and rails.

@skyman88 well, maybe. The problem there is that the onewheel really has no safety or real warning. No hard cap either. All that is fine, if fm was willing to tell the user about catastrophic failure of the self balancing function. Something like IF YOU RIDE FAST THE BOARD WILL OVERLOAD AND THROW YOU TO THE PAVEMENT! What little warnings they give are vague and do not explain what is happening.

@skyman88 I agree with you, but that’s not the argument here. The argument is that the board is dangerous based on the claims that fm is making about its abilities. Hence the thread that I started called Do not ride at high speed. The board simply is underpowered.

@desperado if you’ve ever ridden an electric unicycle you’ll realize what a real motor can accomplish. With your weight over the axle and a 1600w motor it feels like a flying platform. The torque is unreal and it acellerates like a bullet with zero forward five of the pedals.

@desperado you nailed it! The 850w motor is probably sufficient for up to like 150 pound rider. They advertise much higher weight limits.

@cascadewheeler sorry, but the motor is under powered for the design. Maybe for the advertised weight limit/max speed. If you look at other self balancers they put the riders weight on the axle of the wheel. The onewheel put the weight fore and aft of the axle. That means the motor has to work especially hard for the same result. I’m not in the least arguing that it isn’t a cool concept, but the fact is it drops the nose like a hot rock the moment the motor is overloaded. Overloading the motor is far too easy due to the fact that it’s only an 850w.

@kitedoc man I am really sorry to hear that. I was just on a bicycle ride last weekend. While stretching and chatting one of my friends asked “what the hell is going on with your shoulder?” I had to explain the situation again. Don’t you love how shitty design can alter your life forever?

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Why in the world was the board not designed like that! That’s a major game changer. Well done!