Enicycle

[Jerome Daoust]

FiveTV: Anywhere, anytime, Enicycle![/url]"]Ortis heads to Italy to jump on a motorised unicycle
Ah Italy. The home of the Colosseum, Ferrari, Pasta. But you can forget all that, I’ve come out to re-acquaint myself with an old skill – unicycle riding. Okay, it’s not quite a unicycle, rather it’s the Enicycle – a motorised unicycle!
With only two in existence I thought I’d check out my circus credentials and hop on one of the single-wheeled modes of transport. The beauty behind the Enicycle, though, is that it’s much easier to ride than a unicycle, thanks to a clever system of gyroscopes, embedded processors and a 1,000W hub motor.
The mini gyroscopes measure the vertical angle of the bike at a rate of 100 times a second, then feed the data to the processor, which drives the motor and in turn keeps you balance. Sounds complicated? Well, all you have to know is that you just lean forward to go and steer with your feet. Easy. To see just how easy, check out the vid…

engadget: Enicycle, the electric unicycle, gets ridden on video[/url]"]While the Enicycle may look eerily similar to Focus Design's SBU unicycle, it's decidedly different when looking at the nuts and bolts of things. As of now, just two of these devices exist in the entire world, and one Ortis Deley was able to scoot over to Italy in order to give one of them a ride. Thanks to what is described as "a clever system of gyroscopes, embedded processors and a 1,000W hub motor," the bike was said to be exceptionally easy to control, and the foot-steering apparatus seemed to also work quite well. We'd say that this doesn't really have a chance in hades to make it in the commercial market, but if the P.U.M.A. can find buyers, absolutely anything is possible. Check the exhilarating vid in the read link.

 

[Lucky_Hoodlum]

It is not true that there are only two and these arent even the first a man on youtube built on in 2006 here is his website and video http://www.electricunicycle.com/

 

[dogman dan]

That looks way too dangerous unless he uses some toruqe ams. :lol:

 

[snowcrow]

I think there should be a second motor hub mounted on a helmet just for good measure

Blessings, Snow Crow