The Event

I know this is a channel about the small and efficient transportation that is never stolen because it cannot be ridden, with no cost for maintenance and no need for registration, but there was an event that we went to where EUCs (electric unicycles) were being shown and lessons given! The first six minutes of the video shows all of the non-vehicle related bio innovations that was there. The rest is about electric mobility machines, which is the topic of this post.

The bio-event takes up the first third of the video. Just a look around.

Both of my Argentina born kids were with me on Sunday. One of them works for the shop that sells these beasts. By beasts, I mean all the other wheels that are not minuscule (next photo). What a weekend!

After the intro to the bio event, we enter the test track for the electric unicycles of where we first see a tiny wheel being ridden by one of the customers of Eco Alsina, where I bought mine.

I did not meet everyone that was there because I was all over the place. I rode this little thing which felt like a lawn mower wheel and foot pegs. If you are able to ride this one with any kind of stability, you would be able to travel at 28mph with a range of 28 miles, or one hour of run time at speed (45km per hour - 45kms).

They say it is easy to learn to ride backwards on something this small. My goal was to be part of the group that did not fall with all eyes on them. Success! Because I only rode my wheel.

The next wheel to spring into action, as my oldest boy twirls on the MTen4, is the InMotion V13 which just arrived in Argentina a couple weeks ago. I also rode this wheel, it rides like a Harley as compared to a Yamaha or Honda. (mine is the Honda for this comparison)

The wheel is huge. It weighs about 118 lbs. and can hit speeds of 56 mph (90 km per hour), with speeds exceeding 86 mph (140 km/h) when the company releases the unlock codes. Range is realistic 124 mils (200 kms).

I spoke to the young lady who was riding this. It came out in conversation that she's only been riding a wheel for about 2 months. She came from another city in province in order to attend this event. I didn't get it on video but she was doing some kind of ballet move where she rides with one leg, then grabs the other foot and lifts it higher than her shoulder, like next to her ear. I attempted the same move and it was not pretty. (I did not fall though).

^{the owner of the store, Martin on an S22}

This is the same wheel that I own. As you will see at the end of the video, I have two of these and you will see my youngest son and I sneaking on to the horses' race track (nobody tried to kick us out). Then toward the end of the video, we ride in the rain on the harrowing avenues of Buenos Aires. Check the slo-mo of my son finding a large pothole disguised as a puddle. He saw it when it was three feet away judging by when his brake light came on.

^{any other wheel that I have owned would have thrown me to the ground at speed.}

The Inmotion v8 inmotion v10 a are using to teach people to ride at the event. You can see them there on the upper right of the image below. Some took to riding right away and others could only stand and move a little. It takes a week before you can go down the street at 10 or 15 mph. Slow riding and turns take a couple months to learn at a minimum.

The s18 is a very nice suspension wheel which will do 31 mph (50 km per hour) with a range of 62 miles (100 kms). I had one and I learned a lot of riding techniques on it, including how to go downstairs quite reliably.

Here we have one of the guys doing some more one-legged riding which is quite easy on that wheel. I used to ride one legged all the time, sometimes just to rest the other leg. Standing for long periods while riding miles and miles starves the feet from blood flow since you cannot move them around much. Now I ride seated when my feet are tired.

When my s18 broke this company took it in trade and give me credit for it when I bought my s22.

At around 12 minutes into the video, we start touring the part that was right across from us when we were riding. We start with an electric delivery truck by Volkswagen. If you're interested in that one, my son was reading most of the specs and talking about the capability of this bad boy to do the job all around the city.

We swung past the other electric delivery vehicles in the video. There was a package delivery van along with a bicycle which electrically driven. They both are operated by Andreani. You will see the camera pan past a couple other electrical vehicles, an electric rickshaw and a Tito, which is smaller than a smart car. Amazingly, it is a four door and you can order it with A/C!

But I knew where my 18 year old was looking before I even turned around. This is an all wheel drive go-kart that was designed and made by ITBA students and apprentices. The head of training had talked to my son with some interest, being that he is attending a technical school right now, studying electronics. That video is for my son, so he can review the conversation when he is ready to move past high school.

On the way out of the event, we could not help ourselves! We had to see what it looked like form the horse's perspective. I wanted to try both the sand track as well as the grass one, but we were both nervous that a police car would be called to drive out and get us out of there.

Then we left and I made a video of the whole ride home, like ten miles, but I only included a few clips it in this video. We are riding on one of the many east - west avenues used to traverse Buenos Aires. I prefer side streets, but my son had never driven at high speeds. I decided to let him try because traffic was light and so was the rain until the end.

Thanks for reading. All of this is in the video.