Awsome! Those are what I’d call a real electric unicycle.
That’s really cool, I wish I had those kind of machining/welding skils to make something like that. It’s hard to imagine how well the pedal assist would really work. The self-balancing ones work really well… very natural/intuitive.
There’s a little bit of a challenge at first learning to get on/off it, and for turning (it’s still one wheel afterall) and to learn to trust its forward/backward balancing. But the hardest part-having your body learn how to balance using the pedals has been taken care of for you.
I thought it would help me in learning the real unicycle, but it made little if any difference actually (maybe it helped with turning some?).
The pedal unicycle felt impossible at first when I got it and it was quite a challenge learning it. (Unicyclists on the other hand can pretty much ride the electric ones immediately though)
It seems like the fun in unicycling is about the challenge and overcoming it with persistence and its very satisfying when you do.
In contrast the electric one is more about just getting around and having fun. It’s a feeling unlike anything else that I’ve done, being able to effortlessly and silently glide around and carve in corners and go up and down [steep] hills, and do it at a pretty rapid pace too (the latest models will do between 30-45 MPH!) Almost like self propelled skiing maybe is the closest approximation I can think of.
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And now it’s time to refinish the deck, yes? 
I think your results would have been much faster had you used a larger space to figure that thing out. However, your video contained no falling down, so there’s something to be said for that!
I’ve tried several different types of electric unis. The little ones like BC Wheels seem like they would be practical as commuters, but otherwise I wouldn’t want to just be standing there for so long. I’d rather sit down. However, the standing-up ones offer more opportunities to learn tricks on them, such as spins, interesting idling and similar. Wheel walking not recommended.
I got the shirt from you in 2018. The shirt is from some unicycling event in 2008.
I recognized the shirt. That’s the “everybody” shirt for NAUCC 2018. Anyone looking at that shirt might wonder what NAUCC stands for; I’m pretty sure they didn’t spell it out. They also had a yellow version for staff/volunteers. I always try to earn one of those when they are available.
NAUCC stands for North American Unicycling Championships and Convention. Or Convention and Championships; it depends on the year. That year was really cool; the convention was in Rapid City, South Dakota for the first time, and (almost) all the mountain events were held right in the city limits, as they have a small mountain right in town! Steep, too. Thunderstorms are common in that area during the summer, and it seems the schedule (and race courses) had to be modified a couple of times due to overnight storms. Exciting!
A long XC race, called the Muni Marathon, was held outside of nearby Sturgis, and was a course of 11 miles or so, with little to no course markings. I was able to keep up with Jamey Mossengren for much of the race, in part because of confusion at intersections. Several people got lost, as black clouds were rolling in and it was getting dark. More thunderstorms, but everyone was found. 
Lots of riders were in tip-top aerobic shape because that NAUCC was just a few weeks after Ride The Lobster, and a lot of those racers were there. On a borrowed (from my RTL teammate Dave White) a Schlumpf 20" for the 10k, and was able to cling to third place behind Gilby and Scott Wilton for almost the whole course. They were neck and neck at the finish line, then crashed in a ditch just after it.
Uh, back to topic: … There were no electric unicycles there.
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Love the story 
Enjoy it but you have to understand where unicyclist have a beef. What you have is an electric commuter vehicle. That is all good but it really causes alot of confusion especially with beginner unicyclist. You have to understand there are acres of difference between the two. Comparibly carriages and horseless carriages. My request is that you and everyone riding these things is that you let this small population of enthusiasts have their little spot on planet earth and claim the name to unicycle. While riding a trail in Pittsburgh a guy flew across a field on a powered one wheeled "skateboard at a high rate of speed. Clearly computer balanced like a segway. Mounting and Riding a unicycle is a huge accomplishment both mentally and physically and moving forward mastering skills is a badge honor. The gyroscope in our brains make it happen with lots of pain and practice without the aid of a computer. Enjoy your machine but let us have our little slice of life as unicylists… Thank you
My suggestion is spend an hour on YouTube and watch the trials, flatland, muni and long distance unicyclists I believe you will have a new and elevated apriciation for all that have taken the one wheeled chalange an have adopted it as a way of life. Maybe you too will be inspired to go analog. Best wishes
I don’t understand the reaction. We’re all earthlings riding our strange contraptions, electric or not. I don’t think we need to feel threatened - that way tribalism lies.
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Unicycling is such a thin slice of the cycling pie. I just feel we should be untitled to claim the name. It makes it easier for internet searches especially for beginners. I have no problem with the actual machines infact intrigued by them. But let’s be honest they are what they are and we are what we are. There is nothing wrong or misleading about having a differentiation in our name and description
Just as John foss said in his post there is a physical endorence aspect to “analog” unicycling 6hat is not present with an electric vehicle. The fact we are human powered as apposed to battery powered creates a consise and clear differentiation in definition and should be accepted and respected moving forward. Dogs are dogs and cats are cats. They are both pets, some people love dogs, some people love cats, but they are different and that’s ok.
I agree with what you’re saying @Bug72. I was thinking of using the term ‘electric wheel’, but ‘electric unicycle’ seems to be the common term. I too prefer regular non electric unis, but the electric thing is quite fun.
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- How strong are the flaps that you stand on? They seem quite thin and with too rough a beating they might break? I was thinking of the louse legs supports of my lunicycle. Even though I got a new support, I haven’t tried it since. There are only a few minuscule screws that keep the plastic top part on the metal bottom part.
- How is the Q-factor of the EUC? Is that about the same as on an acoustic uni?
- Now that you can ride it, do you use it for commuting or will it eventually just fill space in the shed? Also I reckon you’re not allowed to use them on the open road in NO, how big is the chance to be stopped by the police? I’ve only once seen one around where I live and the guy rode quite fast with it. Most people in NL are not law-abiding citizens
- When you’ve managed to get a good speed, how do you brake? Can you ride so fast that you can’t run out of it? Also how sensitive is it to bumps. Even though the wheel has a nice size, I figure the wheel can still easily be blocked by a twig lying on the ground, sending you sprawling (don’t forget a picture when that happens )
@Bug72 If you are responding to @UniMyra (I presume so since he reviewed the thread after it stagnated for months) I hope you are aware that he is also a unicyclist in the traditional sense and that the vast majority of his videos on YouTube are about actual unicycling. Quite a few of them instructional videos that various people here have noted in being helpful for improving or learning certain techniques, such as mounting. He is also a very frequent poster on the forums.
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We might be entitled to the term but that is not how it works in the real world. Those devices are already more popular than traditional unicycles and hence the search results are already polluted with one-wheeled electric devices being called electric unicycle. You are not going to stop that now.
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They are completely legal here. They are classified the same as other small electric powered devices, such as e-scooters, which in turn are (currently†) legally the same as bicycles.
† e-cooters being classified as bikes has caused problems here due to legislation being applied to control them having knock on effects for regular cyclists. It has recently been hinted that they might get re-classified in their own category, so that this does not happen again.
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jealous! 
Yes, you can ride faster then you can run. The fastest one seems to do over 50mph (80kph). They are attempting to break 60mph.
I can’t really answer your questions @Setonix. I only rode it for 45 minutes before leaving on vacation. I only brought the Oracle 26.