That word doesn’t mean what you think it does.
I like looking for loopholes as well, like in national parks where bikes are not allowed, I especially ride with my unicycle and then show those dumb rangers a letter I got from the ministry which states a unicycle is a classified as a pedestrian with a toy.
Also sent a question to the police last week about if a skate park is part of the public road, because I wanna buy a hoverboard, which are illegal to ride on public roads (this includes the pavement). (Haven’t had a reply yet)
If ur only allowed to ride it inside the house, it will quickly become boring, but if I can get it outside in certain places, my playground will become a bit bigger. It will be the same for all other electrical toys like an EUC. I believe only a Segway is allowed on the public roads, but the company stopped producing them after 20 years, because not enough peeps were interested in them. They couldn’t make the profit they were after.
@kamikaze I am not as stupid as I might look. I just like silly things. 
I know what it really/officially means but in this case it is just a fun play on the differentiation between electric and non-electric by comparing with guitar terminology. It is not a serious thing… of course sound is not involved… but many keen cyclists on twitter (especially in the UK) already use this playful way to differentiate between their electric and non electric bikes (try searching for “acoustic bicycle” on Twitter and you will see what I mean).
I am just making a case for doing the same with unicycles.
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And here I thought you were being original… 
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I am not that clever!
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A push scooter with studded tyres! I guess that’s something you only see in 
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The front tyre is a commercially studded tyre. The back one I studded myself and actually understood how to do it based on a comment from this very forum.
Thanks again @saskatchewanian!
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Ah, yes, maybe. I’ll be more precise. I had never tried such a thing before. I required help to mount the thing, but after that, I was immediately able to move forward and turn without falling. I was not mastering the electric unicycle. 
Yeah, well, at least NL is “bicycle-friendly” in geographic terms. So, “acoustic” bicycle/unicycle is a good option there; at least in CZ, NL is perceived as a bicycle paradise, because it’s so flat 
in comparison. What angers me is that, especially in Prague, politicians keep talking about how bicycles are so good, healthy and should be supported as an environmentally-friendly way of transportation, because, well, look at NL, how they do it. But Prague is quite hilly, so man-powered vehicles are pretty disadvantageous here in most settings.
I mean, in my previous job, the office was located around 5 km from my home, which is not far at all. But the problem is, right in the middle of the journey, there is a small “valley”, where on ca. 700 m is an elevation of around 60 meters. It’s not much, but try to pedal that during the summer in sunny weather in temperatures of upper twenties Celsius. You will get sweaty, so you need to shower and change at the office, which is a bit impractical. The ecological alternative is a public transport that will take almost twice as much time as on the bicycle (it does not go directly) and at least 1/3 of it, you’ll spend in a bus with a weak air conditioning together with dozens of sweaty strangers. Again, during the summer it’s the dream.
EUC would be perfect for such a situation. I bet that with something like Ninebot Z10, and a proper training, I would be there a few minutes faster than on a bicycle and wouldn’t have to break a sweat on that stupid hill. But, alas, these things are essentially banned here, so I did the most obvious thing and had been riding there on my gasoline powered 600 cc scooter, which I had been parking illegally right in front of the office building, together with like 20 other motorcyclists, who got the same idea. It’s a bit loud, not very ecological and, I bet, less economical than EUC would have been, battery and tire replacements included. So yes, ecology my backside. 
Interestingly, however, the current government essentially ran itself to the ground in terms of public opinion due to its handling of COVID crisis, and it seems the Pirate Party will win the next elections. Pirates are quite pro-environment, so, although I don’t support them, I will perhaps write them a letter, expressing an opinion that they should be more forthcoming with respect to electric-powered alternative vehicles.
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i need to have one of those as well
That’s the only electric unicycle worth being called electric unicycle:
I was lucky enough to have a go on it during Unicon in Spain. When riding it didn’t felt so special, but when I got back on my normal muni it was soooo hard to ride and the surface was flat!
I personally don’t like that they call the self balancing electric Unicycles EUCs, my urban unicycling part of my heart just breaks every single time hearing or reading that.
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I vote we make it official. They’re SBUs, that’s what we insist on calling them. 
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i support!
Electric unicycles are good for the sport. They expand the use and awareness of unicycles. People who otherwise might never consider riding a unicycle taking up the sport. Crossovers between traditional and electric unicycles expands our footprint. A good thing for our sport. Thinking that electric unicycles are bad for the sport is very narrow minded thinking.
Narrow-minded thinking meets circular logic: You define the sport as including electric one-wheel devices, then you say the sport is expanding because of them.
I can’t really see electric unicycles bringing more people into the sport. They just appeal to people for very different reasons. The appeal of the electric unicycle is speed, novelty/new technology, fun and arguably a practical commuter vehicle. The appeal of the unicycle is its high learning curve. You don’t ride a unicycle because it’s easy or fast or practical, you ride it because it’s challenging and fun and you’re a bit weird. Only the fun part overlaps, but the same could also be said of triathlons. Those that do them would probably also say they’re fun. People don’t agree on what is fun.
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From what I’ve seen the crossover from electric unicycles to pedal powered ones exists, but is very small. (And vice versa, while some unicyclists have bought electric unicycles, I haven’t met one that has given up on riding pedal powered ones because of that.)
I don’t think electric unicycles are bad for the sport of unassisted unicycles, but I also don’t expect any significant benefit from them for our sport. But there is enough space to coexist and rather than being negative towards them, I’m positive about the sport that I do.
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I don’t quite agree. Before you know it this forum will be full of peeps with electrical unicycles. Electrical and ‘acoustic’ unicycles are very different in technical aspects as well as handling aspects.
I would certainly like to try an electrical uni, but they are quite expensive and as we are not allowed to ride them on public roads, but only inside the house, then the fun will quickly wear off.
I always feel that riding a unicycle gives a bit of a feeling of accomplishment. You won’t have that at all with a self balancing machine. You just hop on and take off… and hope the battery doesn’t die so you end up in a face plant 
Electrical unicycles aren’t bad for the sport, but you shouldn’t compare pears with apples.
But some people also say “monocycle” when they talk about a regular unicycle..
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And the large singular wheels that the rider sits inside of.