On: Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four...

[dharmab]

I've been on a motorcycle that had the drivetrain cut out at 80mph. The bike coasted safely to a stop.

You lose drive power on a one wheel and your biology is immediately meeting physics.

[cdelsolar → dharmab]

The wheel doesn’t have inertia?

[jwiz → cdelsolar]

The motor is holding the nose up. When you lose power, the nose immediately dives into the ground, stopping the onewheel, but not the rider.

[wolverine876 → jwiz]

That's really unbelievable - an unacceptable mode of failure. How are they not in jail or sued to oblivion? What engineer put their name on it?

[thinkmassive → jwiz]

If the rider is actively balancing then it doesn’t need to immediately nosedive. In reality that’s the usual effect, but keeping a low center of gravity and trying to keep it balanced go a long way toward a smoother slide/roll instead of a faceplant.

[johnmaguire → thinkmassive]

The rider leans forward to accelerate the OneWheel, so they are not "actively balancing" - the OneWheel self-balances "against" their lean. Until the motor gives out, that is.

[thinkmassive → johnmaguire]

Simply carving , which is how you turn, requires some balancing by the rider. Going fast over anything but ideal terrain also requires active balancing. If you ride one in any capacity beyond a few mph in a parking lot, you’ll feel it in your legs.

[johnmaguire → thinkmassive]

I owned one!

[Aeolun → cdelsolar]

I suspect it has more to do with the active balancing on the thing stopping from one moment to the other. You’d just tip forward before you can react.