What the… what is this?!

[madsb]

Freak of nature: http://youtu.be/yV-dfXcWDQE

[Code-ster]

@madsb Wow that looks cheap. FM has no competition as long as the knock offs remain on this sublevel.

[Nat]

@madsb All those lights lol!

[njcustom]

Chinese make junk, plain and simple.. End of story..

[SC720]

Barf!!!!

[cr4p]

seems like they have their first "promo-video" out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNiHzEWaq8g

it really is a shameless china-copy, but as soon as there is the first chinese model available, i won´t be long until there are plenty of those clones from different chinese companys all around (like it happend with the electric unicycles or with the "hoverboards").

think there will always be a market for "the real thing", honoring the quality, but I am afraid a lot of potential buyers can be convinced by such videos. as long as there aren´t any local importers all over the world, avoiding an almost doubled "final price" for worldwide customers (shipping costs, import taxes and customs), I think it might just be too appealing spending half ammount of money on something like this.

[BadWolf]

Looks like a working copy, but I would never, ever suggest someone spend 300-400$ less on a copy to save money, just save money for a longer time. You have no idea about the software, hardware, chemistry of that thing. Could blow up in your face, or someone elses face :P

[cr4p]

@BadWolf
at that price it definitly makes no sense to save a few bucks for a US customer, but considering that its a chinese product and therefore import costs are about the same in US as for example in the EU, we are talking about saving more than 1000USD (shipping/customs/taxes)...i have already seen a first shop in denmark offering that thing for round about 950USD , so this might make a huge difference for an european customer who would have to pay something like 2200USD when importing an original onweheel from US.

nevertheless i totally agree with you - i would not thrust a chineese modell in terms of blowing up in your face or cracking in two pieces while riding offroad...

also from a technical point of view you can obviously not really compare those two products, but for a quick view, both products look similar and even this video shows somehow the same thing and even the same scenes (cruising, jumping, offroad) if you are not into details.

[tomtnt]

Unfortunately, this will soon be available on eBay and alieXpress at a 300-500 price point. The reseller is basically importing from China and adding a huge markup.

[DVO]

LOL, can't wait to see these in "Action" or inaction. It's junk

[carvewell]

The onewheel has appropriately coped(angled to match the plane of the ground) end blocks. The Chinese platform, lacking this and undoubtedly a whole lot more, looks unprepared for a nose dive or any close tolerances with the ground. Also the foot sensors look lame. I would much rather have flat real estate for my feet to talk to the board. The nightrider light effects look kinda cool though.

[rainynite]

Frankly I am amazed at a) their ability to reverse engineer everything and b) how they don't even bother to hide that it is a reverse engineered copy.

At any rate frankly I am a bit worried about posting these videos in this forum. I'm afraid it will cause an unexpected side effect of increasing demand for the Chinese knock offs based on price and / availability.

[killerClownShoes]

https://youtu.be/Cr_7sP7qrKs

[jim]

@killerClownShoes That thing actually looks like fun! For the cost it may provide a high entertainment value even though performance is not the same as OW.

[jim]

@killerClownShoes ...And I would like to see that one wheeled, self balancing bike sitting in the video ridden around.

[jim]

@killerClownShoes The bike looks like a cheap copy of one of these https://youtu.be/0wTfQiGFAKE