Today the forum turns 1 year old! 🥳

I won't say this has been super hard. I've had some experience with virtual servers and poking linux in a terminal before but running a platform for others to use 24/7 is a change of pace.

All that said this forum would be nothing if not for you all choosing to:
-- A. Trust me to run the place.
-- B. Continue to make the forum a welcoming and friendly platform.
-- C. Support and help along the way.

I'm grateful to you all for keeping the place alive and allowing it to flourish from the ashes of it's former self. To those that are still here, those that no longer visit and the newer members I look forward to keeping the place running another year so you have a safe space to share your Onewheel adventures, builds and friendships.

No idea what's coming this year but I'm hopeful we all get an amazing year of floating in no matter what you're riding.

~Lia

@hanahsdax Okay... couldn't help it. I just had too :3

Hiya all,

I just wanted to say a massive thank you for keeping this place as nice as it is. Consider this an appreciation post to everyone :)

I've noticed a lot of negativity within the overall community yet here remains nice, helpful and above all enjoyable to browse and be a part of. This feels more like a community and I'm grateful for seeing it survive as such without a need for any intervention.

Again, thank you so much <3

OW fam I saw my first northern lights tonight 🥰🥰🥰

(Yes I need to clean my board. She's filthy 😖)

If you're in the northern US you may be able to catch it later too!

Also sharing this pic too as it pretty :3

Finally got to check this off the todo list 🥰

@cheppy44 , Me and Kyle outside the office. 2 XS's and a freshy XR

Huge shoutout to Kyle, Joey, Jack and the team for actually taking the time to see our little creations and show us about a little.

Not to mention Andy, Lisa and Joaquin who enabled the visit. Drove us from SF to Santa Cruz. They were super cool and we spent the rest of the day and evening exploring SF ^-^

Spoiler

They were heading to Santa Cruz to drop off a red truck they used at their exhibit which actually happened to be the same one FM used in some promotional material (you can still see the decals used to say onewheel).

Seeing the XS's lined up in their office was great.

Shame there wasn't one we could leave with them but we gave Kyle one of the 2 rails we made extra so they have something from the XS to keep ahold of. Wren has the other :3

Something I was super stoked to see was old Ironsides. The OG that started it all. It's quite the thing in person!

It did work but they had to connect some bits 😅 Didn't get to ride it though. Kinda forgot to ask.

Ironsides, the XS MK1 and the Mk2. I sort of want to do a half scale of it too but I think a GT-S is more appropriate. especially since I plan to make one of these actually move under me.

After a bit the guys took us through parts of the office. I won't share those pics since that's probably not something we should share in case there were secrets I didn't notice. However we did get to take the Onewheel barrow for a spin.

After our visit Joey had lunch with us at a nearby oceanside café.

Was a fun little area to chill and chat. Got to hear some cool inside deets about RFTR.

I'm glossing over bits but I'm still sort of trying to relax after everything that happened last week 😅 Got a bunch of things to still share but like no time to share D: Need to take a day to just unwind.

Was working on something else and got a little worn out doing all the tedious ground work.
The new piece isn't me (gasp) but it's a biggy like my last one "Night Float" So will likely be a while till I'm done with that.

To try and loosen up and chill I did a round of doodling and decided to recreate an event that happened last year where I nearly ran over a little froggo D:

Here's the end result~

Tried a few new things, thought adding visible emotion to the helmet helped with the vibe while giving some cartoonish linework to emphasise the motion and reaction.

The frog came out cute too although I have to admit the crude sketch version felt cuter.

Here's the initial idea sketch... yes it's super crude.

Then a followup linework to flesh out the drawing.

Getting some test prints from RB to see if it comes out nicely. Some stickers and a 40x40 pillow to go with the other one :)

• White background
• Black background
• Purple background
• Blue background
• Pink background

Edit: Stickers arrived :D Stickers and pillow arrived :D

A handful of pics from my trip to the US. I have a bunch but trying not to spam. If you want more of these or keep up visually with what I'm doing I've been using Instagram more.
https://www.instagram.com/comikzink/

First up was this beautiful pic I took of @Crow_OW , mine, @cheppy44 and @Demimoto boards on our first ride together towards the end of the day. That night riding back in the complete darkness was a time I will not forget.

@cheppy44 Being the amazing boyfriend he is managed to get this entire bridges lights redone to show our fave colours as a surprise for me when we rode by it on a ride he planned well in advance.

During our time together we rode around an Arboretum which was really pretty and only slightly sullied by some meanie in golfcart telling us we can't ride around here... even though other modes of transport not too dissimilar were allowed. Jobsworth type guy so we didn't fight it.

Another groupride with Nick, Josh, Adam and Alyssa this time

Before leaving me and Nick followed up on the stickers we placed on one of my regular rides by adding a matching pair on his.



(I'm such a criminal, vandalising signs like that)

To finish it up on our last ride together I got one clip for an upcoming video in a picturesque area.

Update : I finished them ^-^ You can purchase the STL files to 3D print them here.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/comikzink/e/189373

I've wanted to make one of these for a while and finally last night I crushed out some designs.

I think these came out pretty cool ^-^

Surprisingly difficult to make a cookie cutter like this that adds detail without just getting clogged with dough. This released shockingly well.

Might do the other boards too then upload them to MyMiniFactory for a few quid for the files. For now I've got 4 Gingerbread Onewheels to eat :3

Look what showed up earlier for me to test in?

Edit: Just had the production file confirmed too. 8 per PCB, ordered 5 lots so 20 full sets :)

These will be V-cut into the individual headlights once the components are placed :3

3 absolutely stunning pics from Sam on a group ride around Wales me and a number of other riders participated in 🥰

I may need to get some prints of these.

@scabaa Ah I see. I was hoping for regular outlets but that's probably never happening. Super cool you can just leave it like that without a worry.
I ride super lean so no backpack. Just the charger dangling off my hip from a carabiner in a lil bag with some misc bits alongside. Not sure I could pack the adapter 😅 Good shout though!

Personally would have preferred a HS but it's whatevs. She's got more range than my prior GT that's in retirement with the rest of the boards :3 Defo a good conversion especially if you can swap out the hypercore for a SF.

@Wheelwizard Different board. Built it from bits I acquired over time then used my Fungineer privilege's to get the missing bits I needed ^-^ Rides like a dream with just a few tweaks but I'll probably go over all the settings in vesc tool to make sure I'm not leaving anything on the table. So far it's just better than my GT was with the same battery. BTG seemingly making offroad less of a battery drain too which is nice.

@scabaa Oh wow there are just sockets around available to use?? That must be sooooo good for those rides. I'm still daisy chaining starbucks and McDonalds for reliable sockets here in middle England😭
Are the locals chill about you riding?

GT platform all the way. It's just better for putting power in safely. I'm using:

• Thor301
• GTFO BMS and headlights
• Purple anodized Superflux to GT rail axle blocks
• Superflux V2 stator and a V3 HT hub
• Thundercat BTGF tire
• WTF regular matte black rails
• Lowboy front footpad
• Kush wide retro purple rear footpad
• Mini flight fins
• Custom flight fender and flight shield

Debut of my new ride. Took forever to get it running but she’s a great little machine. Photogenic just like her sisters 🥰

@scabaa How is living on the isle of man? I hear it's quite pretty!

@scabaa I wouldn’t be able to print them sadly. But there’s probably a bunch of local places that can 3d print on demand :)

A little around the motor/footpad connector where the nuts seal up against the casing is a good idea too. It’s not super likely to leak but helps stop them becoming a problem later after some use.

I do have some fender deletes on printables too for the x10/7. Similar to the stock Pint/GT but split due to the rail bend. There’s a flat or curved version on there if you go through my models on there :)

@loaf That must have been one hell of a tumble to destroy the wrist guards and take you out for a year! Hope you're doing okay now.

@scabaa Hiya ^-^
Yep that one's me. I printed mine out of PLA+ with 6 walls on a 0.4mm nozzle. Layer height was less than 0.2mm and was surprisingly strong so anything you do beyond that should be more than good enough to hold it in place :)

For funwheels they're pretty good out of the box but for piece of mine I'd recommend a line of silicone around the boxes just to be safe.

While chasing the sun last night I had an opportunity to hide the board in a panorama. Good luck!

It's not super hard but like, I wanted to bring this little game back.

@wheelwizard "Step 2. Swear at tyre until it comes off" Aha preach! The only tire I didn't have to is the big burris BTG 12x8 😅
Loving the ride! We need to meetup for a ride at some point. I've re-added Northants back into my usual loops ^-^

Seconding the tire spoons. I never valued them till I had to pop an enduro off a superflux and may have invented new swears till I caved and printed the spoons to get it off.

I managed to get back out and finish the loop while revisiting what caused me to fall.

Some kinda shoddy trench filling :/ hard to get a good pic as there were too many cars to take a pic of the actual spot but despite how poorly it came out on camera there was a section towards the edge on the left lane that sunk quite a bit.

My best guess is I got air in the while then bounced off the lip on the other side and bonked, sending me up off the pads. There’s a white streak after the trenching that must have been my board scraping. What remnants of my knee are long washed away in the rain.