>>1654097Not just bigger wheels, those piddly wheellet folding bikes are still way more stable than monowheels because they have redundancy. They separate load bearing duty and steering duty, if front wheel goes haywire you still have the rear to play off- redundancy. They are controlled with core hips, legs and arms all at once, partially interchangeably- redundancy. You have two ways to steer, letting you use one or the other depending on the situation and do things like go straight while leaning- redundancy. Your speed and position are completely decoupled too, leaning on handlebars won't make you go any faster if you don't pedal any faster- redundancy. If your bike's brakes fail you just keep going at the same speed and can find safe ways to stop, nevermind that you have two brakes and chances of both failing at once are low- redundancy.
On a monowheel legs are your suspension, your core stays straight and arms are obviously useless, your sole method of control is your hips. No redundancy, if you are thrown off balance you don't have many ways to pull it back straight, and the only safe position is straight like a soldier. I guess it's good for posture, but it's not redundant. If power fails you just faceplant, you have no recovery options because power controls everything. You don't feel the lack of redundancy until you need it, but by then it's too late and you lie in the middle of the road with a broken jaw, bloody wrists and a skidmark on yer bum, thinking to yourself "man, I really wish I had a second wheel right about now".
Redundancy is good. Redundancy is safe. On a bicycle everything is simple yet naturally redundant, every engineer's wet dream. Monowheel strips the concept of a wheeled vehicle down to bare essentials, eliminating any and all redundancies.
