When little youngsters see him whizzing by, they suppose he’s a Energy Ranger.

Adults don’t know what to suppose. They need him to cease and clarify himself, however he likes to maintain transferring — on his one motorized wheel.

Meet Tony Roberson, a personable, 68-year-old from Twinsburg who rides an electrical unicycle.

The place does he trip it? All over the place. Western Cleveland suburbs like Rocky River. Japanese exurbs like Chardon. In Creston in Wayne County. On highways by parks. On the Ohio& Erie Canal Towpath.

On one journey, he rode all the best way from his Twinsburg residence to downtown Cleveland and again.

Roberson is a diminutive with an enormous white beard. However when he fits up, it’s exhausting to inform what he seems to be like, as a result of he realized the exhausting approach that carrying a full helmet and padding makes a whole lot of sense.

When he began driving 10 months in the past on a less expensive, smaller unicycle, he was carrying solely a bicycle helmet when he went down exhausting. He didn’t break any bones, however he did a face-plant that required stitches above his eye.

As of late he wears a full face helmet, together with elbow pads, knee pads, hip pads and shoulder pads.

“For those who’re driving, you’re going to fall,” he says. “Even the most effective fall. It’s just one wheel. You don’t have the posh of creating a mistake.”