Kevin Scott, mastering the monowheel at record speeds

My name is Kevin Scott

I'm part of the UK Monowheel Team and the record is the world's fastest monowheel motorcycle

The UK Monowheel Team got together, four of us, and we said, what can we do? What's practical? And we went away and we looked around and we found that

Kevin McLean in America is the only guy in the world that's got these things working properly

and he held the world record at 57 miles an hour. And we thought, how hard can that be

Driving a monowheel, it's not like anything else that you can imagine. It's probably closer to

flying than driving anything. You have nothing to steer with. You pull away and the front rises up

and that's like a motorbike doing a wheelie. That's fairly normal. And then steering

it's really hard to steer and that's where we're still learning how to steer. And then you've got to slow the thing down and you put the brakes on and the front drops and

the back comes up and it's very unstable when it's slowing. But it's fantastic and it just

puts a smile on your face. When you achieve something, it puts a smile on your face

When people see us riding a monowheel, there's two types. Some of them don't get it and they

just ask why. But most of them, by far most of them, they totally understand that it's something

so unique and so special and they want to ride it. But it takes a lot of time and practice

but it really puts a smile on everybody's face. It lasts for ages. When you get the thing up to serious speed, and that's anything over 40 miles an hour

it actually gets easier to ride. It becomes very stable. All the gyro forces make it stable

and all you've got to do is concentrate on keeping it straight and the wind pushes it

keeping it straight. You're looking a quarter of a mile ahead and, yeah, of course there's

adrenaline going, but you're far more concentrating on keeping it right in the

middle of that track and then getting ready to slow down at the end. Now I've seen myself in this Guinness World Records book. It's absolutely fantastic. We

set ourselves out to do it. We spent several years building and developing and once we got there

there's another chap in the country that's challenging it, but until he gets close

then we're happy to sort of ride around on this. We are tuning it, we are developing it for more

so we've got a bit in our back pocket, but at the moment we're just enjoying being the Guinness World Record holders