The Easy-Glider is your personal one-wheeled electric chariot
By Conrad Quilty-Harper 
posted Jun 16th 2007 10:42PM
posted Jun 16th 2007 10:42PM
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one wheeled? I see two wheels in that picture and I'm guessing there's three.....you liar!
@INTERNETSAVIOUR - Yep.
C'mon Engadget, lets try this together. 1 -- 2 -- 3. Once you guys master that come back around and we'll teach you some letters and words.
You know what they meant, get over yourself.
so, ahhumm.... where do you put your butt?
someone finally one-upped the segway...
My S550 doesn't have anything on those SEGWAYS.
GIZMODUCK TO THE RESCUE !
Dark-Wing is more bad-ass.
Kind of reminds me of the Mr. Garrison's "IT"...almost as gay too.
I guess you stand on the back portion with the small wheels and hold onto the hand brake/throttle piece. imagine how cool you would look on this thing! HELLO LADIES
Dear engadget writers: Please, if it would not be too much trouble, visit the webpage of the item you are writing about if you have no idea what it is.............so that you can get at least some of your facts straight. The thing is a stand up tricycle. As someone else so elegantly put it, 1, 2, 3 wheels.
Also, that thing looks incredibly scary to drive, for the same reason I find it scary how small the wheels are on some skateboards. What happens when you hit a tiny piece of gravel, or a little bump? Shit hits the fan.
So uhh, whatever happened to the bicycle?
ppssh, that went out of style along with exercise, conservation and common sense.
Yaaaaay diabetes!!!!
Three days ago we hear about an electric sports car that'll go 250 miles and recharge in 10 minutes. Sweet! Now they show us this ugly contraption that'll go 16 miles at the most and could take 8 hours to recharge. Yeah, put me down for 0 of these.
I agree that the Easy-Glider, in its current form, is geeky, and looks flimsy, but see this as the first generation of something much better. A high rpm internal disc (if it doesn't already have one) to keep the thing gyroscopically stable, larger diameter side wheels (if any at all) and you've got your first battery-powered all-terrain unicycle (with training wheels?). Yeehaw! I can see a buncha folks racin' 'round a dirt track on generation 2 already...sorta.
I can't get over that 1 wheel/3 wheels mistake. someone needs to be fired over this. and reported to homeland security and sent to guantanamo. you sicken me engadget!
Created from optimus prime's spare tire, The newest member of autobots...BEHOLD!! Glidrotron..
***crickets***
it's the IT from southpark.......minus a couple accessories.
If you all read the link you'd see that the other two wheels are "attachable". Thus it is one wheeled until you attach the "Char". Aren't you all a bunch of douches?
Check the vids on youtube, the 'training wheels' are optional. People also using just the single wheel & roller blades or a skateboard for your feet... which actually might be fun, if it went more then, what, 12 mph?
this chairot was featured on the australian show "beyond tomorrow" about 2 years ago so it took that long to be shown up all over the internet.
So... if you're a big guy or President Bush, I guess you might as well avoid this I take it?
image Google "easy glider" for a less awkward angle of the thing.
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&tab=wi&client=firefox-a&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=easy%20glider
Why not just attach that thing to the front of a bike instead of using the front tire? Then you can use the electricity when you want or you can peddle when you want.
I thought the title was wrong too, but it IS a 1 wheeled chariot when you look at other images of it. It's not new though, the guys that mow the lawn at my apartment complex have had little wheel things that stand on behind those big mowing decks for years.
So this stupid thing is basically an electric tricycle without the pedals. Why not just walk, ride a bike or a trike?
Can we get a sister site build called "Dumbass Engadgets" ?
The chariot is the part you stand on, so it's definitely not one-wheeled. It's 2 or 3, depending on how you count it.
True, but aren't there 1 horse chariots and 2 horse chariots? The actual chariot is 2 wheels, so the "1 Wheel" refers to the puller in the front (vs 1 horse).
Whatever the case, this is a stupid concept. Next topic :)
looks like itll wipe ur ass with the tire
This was posted more than a year ago on Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/04/easy-glider-drags-you-along-while-keeping-it-green/
The Gaycycle would be a fitting name for it. All it needs is a carrying basket with a pink bow and it'll be all the rage for summertime in Fire Island. I think I'll buy......NONE! This thing makes even the Segway seem studly.
Still, the saddest thing is that no matter how high the cost of gasoline and how bad the smog, you'll never be able to legally use one in New York City thanks to the idiots who ban every personal conveyance with an electric motor.
The tire on there is a Maxxis Hookworm. It's a decent BMX tire.
I'll stick with my unicycle. Much more practical.
To all of you who doubt the true cool factor of this device, check out the Easy-Glider vs Segway video from their site.
http://www.easy-glider.com/userstore/91/EG-Kabel-1-Web.mov
Now, if thats not enough to prove that this device is the most rockin-est thing ever I don't know what else there is out there to convince you all.
Das Easy-Glider ist uber cool, ja?
Like Chigozie, I'll stick with my unicycle, too. That is, if it isn't too "gay" for Jypson and Constable Odo. I wouldn't want to make them feel uncomfortable or anything...
Yup, too gay. lol
Good thing I'm queer then, or I might be offended.
Sadly, when I go to the site, there's no way to select "United States" as an option. Apparently, they only want people from Algeria, Austria, Bahrain, Balearic Islands, Belgium, Canary Islands, Egypt, Estonia, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Jordan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lybia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Morocco, Oman, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen to know anything about their product. Even if the target consumer for this product is not Americans, (for regulatory reasons, perhaps) if we don't know about the product, we can't pressure our legislators to change those restrictions.
I find it odd, from a purely economic standpoint, that you would send a message to Americans (who, like them or not, compose a rather large consumer economy) who might be interested in your product, that you aren't really interested in them as consumers. I don't know if this was intentional, but it seems a rather large oversight, if that is in fact the case.
welcome to the lives of millions of consumers around the world who are locked out of the market for goods produced and/or only sold in the US. The bulk of online vendors refuse to sell or ship outside the US. Now you know how it feels to be on the outside.
There are a WHOLE LOT of products that can't be purchased in the US, but most of them don't actively discourage me from at least reading about them. For instance, there are dozens of really cool phones that are kept out of the US by carrier influence, but if I go to Nokia's website, I can at least say that I'm in the US and look at them.
I realize that this product isn't available in the US, probably because the manufacturer either a) doesn't want to deal with stupid US regulations or b) is afraid of getting sued because some idiot doesn't know how to use it and drives it into oncoming traffic.
Those two facts don't mean I shouldn't be able to visit their website. They've gone to the trouble of translating it into English, so it shouldn't be a big deal to add *USA or even *OTHER to their menu. (I'd be perfectly satisfied being an *other)