I think you were robbed in that drag race, Rich. I also think that a Leather Daddy Solowheel Gang would be am amazing sight to behold.

The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty—a fad.

- Advice from a president of the Michigan Savings Bank to Henry Ford's lawyer Horace Rackham. Rackham ignored the advice and invested $5000 in Ford stock, selling it later for $12.5 million.

Hey, thanks, dodosan! I got you mixed up with a Twitter commenter, @Art_Paris: https://twitter.com/art_paris/status/692…

Was there any valid, or otherwise compelling reason for invoking race in this article?

I've stopped people riding these wheels to ask questions before, they've never acted smug. They like riding them and it gets them where they need to go. What's the big deal? This article kinda sounds like a sorry not sorry turtle necking turd retraction, nothing new for The Stranger. But I will say that they do look a bit like the Jetsons to me too.

I first saw someone riding a Solowheel about a year ago. Are they geeky? You betcha. Kind of like how snowboards used to be geeky when they first hit the slopes (ok, now I’m giving away my age). And like a snowboard, after you’ve made a fool of yourself learning how to ride the damn thing, all of a sudden it becomes the most fun thing you’ve ever done and you live for every available minute that you can be on the slopes. That feeling of gliding, carving “surfing” and “flying” is exactly the same feeling you get when riding the Solowheel around the city. Only, you don’t have to drive to the mountains, you don’t have to wait for snow and you can do it pretty much every day in all kinds of weather.

I live downtown, a mile from work, a mile and half from my favorite grocery store, a mile and a half from my favorite coffee roaster and two miles from my favorite bakery on Capitol hill. I used to drive my car to get to these places but now I simply ride my Solowheel. Not only is it two to four times faster than driving/parking, it’s super fun. And even though it doesn’t replace actual exercise, you do get a bit of a core workout.

You can ride your bus, breathing in all the recycled air of your fellow commuters (ignoring them while on your iPhone and in silence) but I actually have fun, in fresh air, surfing the streets, every day of the year.