It’s a skateboard! It’s a hoverboard! It’s the Onewheel?
Chattanooga residents may have seen L2 Outside’s owner Dirk Unkle and others cruising around on what looks like a balance board with a tire in the middle and been confused. It’s a fair reaction, and one Unkle expects.
“When I ride downtown, it definitely turns heads,” he says with a laugh. “People look at it like it’s some kind of voodoo magic.”
There is no sorcery involved in the electric board, though. Just good old-fashioned physics. Gyroscopes help keep the board balanced, and sensitive plates at both ends of the board detect pressure. Lean forward to accelerate, lean backward to slow down.
L2 Outside is currently Chattanooga’s only licensed dealer for the Onewheel and the faster, more agile Onewheel+. Designed as a new, fun method of transportation in urban or trail settings, Unkle says the real fun of the Onewheel isn’t riding around town, it’s taking it off-road.