High car prices have pushed people towards to the micromobility sector, where much smaller vehicles offer greater flexibility for a fraction of the cost.
High car prices have pushed people towards to the micromobility sector, where much smaller vehicles offer greater flexibility for a fraction of the cost.
I am not an enthusiast. I just know some people who are.
I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head. EUCs are faster and more powerful, to the point that you’ll need a lot of safety gear or else you might get really badly hurt. People get passionate about them and carry them everywhere and get carried away with tinkering with them, and it becomes part of their personality. But they are useful to the point of becoming a part of your transportation method. You have to carry it with you, which is less convenient than nothing but more convenient than having to find a place to put a whole car or bicycle.
The two are similar in the sense of being one-wheel vehicles you stand on, but their niches are different enough that it makes sense to me that the groups are pretty disjoint. I don’t know of any “group” for one-wheels analogous to the one for EUCs.
interesting, yeah having to lug it around inside is a big turnoff for me. is there a good way to lock them up and leave them somewhere? that’s sort of an open question.
there are definitely large communities for one wheel enthusiasts. i think they’re often less about tinkering and more about meeting up and riding together. from what I’ve seen they are largely organized through message groups and discord.
from what I’ve seen, my friend doing the open source one wheel isn’t alone in his efforts, but the group around it isn’t nearly as big as the cousin euc guys. i think he’s like 90% to “completion”, though I’m sure he’ll never stop tinkering.
another big appeal for me is their use as filmmaking tools. I’m a videographer, these go great with a gimbal. i wonder if an euc would be similarly useful.