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This shop is (was) known for spreading FUD and misinformation about GW wheels (otherwise the shop is perfectly fine, and great website). Ignore whatever they have to say about GW. GW quality is (with the new models) on par with the others where it matters, if you get over the initial "Will my board die right away?" bump that sometimes appears.

Great idea!

Not sure how realistic (or reasonable) the air duct would be. But in principle, construction would be simple and should be unproblematic. Look at how GW does it (on the side board wheels), the board's heatsink has cooling fins on the other side, reaching into the wheel well. Simple rubber gasket, it's totally tight. So if RW lie the board on a heatsink with the fins projecting into the duct underneath, problem solved. You could even put the board in a sealed box with the underside being the heatsink and it would be watertight. Yep, that's true. But they can still offer a trolley attachment if they want. Meanwhile the built in "handle" takes no space away from the batteries and complicates construction and sealing like internal handles, and works well enough as an "emergency" handle which is ok if you only ocasionally need the ability to carry the wheel. This seems to be a very cool design study, I thought it was a decided/final design first. So maybe the wheel will still change into something more conservative with a "normal" handle.

...and if the tire clearance is no problem.

Offroad performance, especially long steep uphills, is a stand-in for robust electronics and good power delivery. If a wheel can do that without dying, it can do everything else safely with good margins. So even if your outrageous 95% claim was true...

Wheel. Or just the wheel/brand name ("ACM", "Monster", "Gotway", "Kingsong"). 2 syllables max is necessary for a concept name. Onewheel would have been good, but the name was stolen (I blame Solowheel for not using that instead) I have the same cold sweat experience as you with "electric unicycle", but if you add "Easy to remember: it's a unicycle, and it's electric!" or "Easy to remember: one wheel, and it's electric" (in German, unicycle = "Einrad" = literally "onewheel") that makes it better. Slightly...

You already over 4000km on your Monster?

Guess the carry handle makes more sense than an air duct. Wondering how well they work. But it is a really interesting new idea.

I see no handle in the renderings. The video is obviously just a prototype, isn't it? Can you elaborate? -- I guess the two openings above the tire are from an air duct to get air directly under the board which is in the top of the wheel. That would allow for a heatsink with direct airflow from/to the outside without dirt from the tire well being a problem. So basically a separate vent through the wheel, above the tire well, with the board's heatsink being directly in it. Quite clever actually! Early talk was about liquid cooling for the GT18, and while I think that is probably unrealistic, it shows that RW think good cooling is important.

Loving the symmetric design! Dare we dream it might be 1600Wh or even higher?

SWEET!!! SEXY!!! WIDE!!! Please have a big battery, please have a big battery, please have a big battery.

2cool4helmet with the sleek Tesla?

The trolley handle is really nicely integrated into the design. Too bad the video does not show anything new or revealing about the specs and capabilities.

Haven't tested whether that is true, but the better control argument for a wider stance always works. I think that's just because 14 inches is inherently more maneuverable. Smaller tire. That was just an analogy, can't take a car on a trail. But it still matters whether the wheel "eats" bumps in terms of directional stability, or whether you have to carefully maneuver all the time. Bit like going with a small tire vs a bigger one.

I just have higher standards for manliness erection duration. Something that actually works. In other words, M SUPER X I have the suspicion that one reason @Marty Backe didn't buy one is that he (like me) prefers the wide GW stance. I think that allows better maneuverability because you have a higher range of control movements - from super slight leg pressure to full workout style upper body movement. If the V10(F) rides like the V8, it's very reactive, maybe too much - everything can be done by legs only. So less fine control. A wider stance should also offer more automatic comfort/forgiveness because it's less sensitive to inputs. Just like you wouldn't take a reactive sports car up an offroad mountain road, probably only fun for so long before it gets tiring. Pure guess. Didn't try the V10, obviously.

#Team msuper X 18L is nice, but low battery kills it. Also don't like the looks. But it will definitely be a quality, powerful, iterated on wheel with good sales, for people who don't want a GW.

That was the idea. Staying under 1kW for whatever on-paper reason. I'm just fishing for possible explanations here

The English ("self-balance car") makes me think it's a Chinese exporter at best.

Da kannste nach Lust und Laune überall rumfahren. Strasse, Radweg, La Defense (autofreier Bereich/Fussgänger+Radler-Zone) an Horden der Militärpolizei vorbei. Interessiert keine Sau.

Hallo Leidiges (und ausgelutschtes, frustrierendes) Thema, aber da sonst keiner antwortet, mach ichs kurz. Auf mehr hab ich keine Lust, einfach die letzten 50 Seiten lesen, 95% gehts nur darum. Deutschland eben. Sorry. Es gibt hier 2 Positionen (meine Darstellung): EUCs sind in D nicht vom Gesetz erfasst und alles geht. Siehe hier und das dort erwähnte Rechtsgutachten ("Grosskopf", der formuliert es etwas eindeutiger als die Polizei, die sich natürlich alle Optionen offen lassen will wenn es nicht anders geht). So wie ichs verstanden habe ( ggf. falsch) kurz gefasst: Regelungslücke. Nach EU-Verordnung (unmittelbar bindend) gibt es selbstbalancierende Fahrzeuge. Damit sind EUCs keine Kraftfahrzeuge und keine sich darauf beziehenden deutschen Gesetze treffen auf sie zu. Und selbstbalancierend ist in D nur ab 2 Rädern reguliert (Segway, Hoverboard). Also: steht nicht im Gesetz, Problem gelöst, gute Fahrt. Manche Leute glauben nicht an Grosskopf (hat noch keiner getestet) und fangen das Diskutieren als Nicht-Verkehrjuristen an, kleben sich Nummernschilder ans wheel (und andere Leute setzen das dann mit Motorrad/Mofa gleich!!!), holen sich mit Halbwahrheiten in den Anträgen (Segway, Stehroller) teure Versicherungen, die im Zweifelsfall eh nicht zahlen, und was weiss ich. Kein Kommentar dazu Ersteres ist meine Position (hat man halt mehr davon) und falls mich wirklich irgendwann die Polizei anhält (ggf. garnicht so leicht für die), ist das zumindest ein Argument. Wie es weitergeht, sieht man dann. Empfehle dir das gleiche. (Ich habe keine Lust auf weitere Diskussionen, also falls hier jemandem die Finger jucken, ist mir egal, ich werds nichtmal lesen.) Viel Spass beim Fahren

It's a selfish request, but as ENVY BURNING WITH THE HEAT OF A THOUSAND SUNS (or something alike) was mentioned here recently, that's what I'm feeling a bit

I don't know. Maybe they lie (in some way). Maybe it is 800W on paper but feels much more stronger in reality. Maybe the wheel is an absolute joke. Maybe something else? I don't know. All I know that @Jason McNeil's initial impressions seem to have been quite good. So time to wait and hope for the best

It looks nice, but: Must be the least ergonomic design I've ever seen. Your ankles and shins sure will love those metal bars Especially in connection with the moving suspension. Cushions are for women! Useless extra weight? Sure! Barely any space for battery. A wheel like this can't have only 800Wh or so. Pedals might as well be made from ice, as slippery as they look. (Ok, might be an afterthought in this early concept phase.) The motorsport/automotive/combustion engine design style is just off. Electric unicycles are different and should have their unique look, determined by their technical design, and not look like some unspecified part of an old motorbike fell off. The Ninebot One Z is showing the way in this respect (one does not have to like its design, but it is not a derivative of something unrelated). No fake cooling grills, pistons, ... , please. For real offroad (mountains, going up and particularly down steep inclines) 18 inches might be too unwieldy? I'd instinctively go with 16 inches instead for torque and controllability (less is too small for bumps and general unevenness). So in my view, good call Inmotion didn't build this. While I love the general concept of an extreme offroad/power wheel, this would have needed a massive amount of further development (euphemism for "Start again, and make sense this time!") to get a realistically good result (it is an early concept, I don't blame it for its shortcomings, but it's more like a concept on what to avoid). In fact, the V10(F) is already halfway there. All is needed is doubling down: V10 is basically the V8 shell (widened) with the tire pushed downwards out of it, to give greater pedal height. (I'm getting the impression the side panel molds from the V8 were reused and the design was made to accomodate this). So? Push the tire 5cm further out of the shell. Even higher pedals and ground clearances. That also gives more space for battery on the top. Make the body wider so the sides can have batteries too like most other wheels, and that's plenty of space for these sweet Wh. It's already 16 inches with a strong motor. Make it even stronger (and wider?) if you like. Evolve electronics, cables etc. for even higher stresses. Add suspension (might be easier said than done). Or skip it and go with big, high friction, easily leg-grabbable side cushions for better hold on the pedals when needed. That would work better than the above concept. Call it V12 and call it a day By the way, @Bobwheel really great to have company representatives (the bosses, even) have such good community involvement!

Since the wheel body itself (= the gyro sensor) isn't suspended, not necessarily. Everything should work as usual, at least in theory. The only thing to test is whether the suspension can produce self-reinforcing oscillations in forward backward tilt due to some automatic reaction by the rider, so if that creates some kind of wobble, maybe an adaption is needed to prevent uncomfortable riding that the suspension/rider might mechanically introduce. @Joey Serrin did some self-builds with suspension, and I don't think he did (or even could) modify the firmware.

Since he has TWO ACM2s, @Marty Backe how about taking one up the overheat hill?