A good friend and fellow OW'er featured with me in an online article.
Let me know what you think? Have we missed the point?
Somehow without mentioning, a photo from @S-Leon made it into the story? I shared the photo but also a few words about our legendary friend. You should comment on the article @S-Leon to claim your ownership of that beast of a board.
Hi Team, I missed this little community!
Thanks Lia for being awesome at stuff.
Are the Northern Hemisphere riders back out riding yet? Or still too bleak?
I'm still climbing on the XR mileage rank, where previous years it would slow down or even go backwards around this time of year as Northerners get out there again. Maybe a big percentage has moved to the GT and parked their XR's? 🙄
Children and Dogs, I slow for both. People with buds or NC headphones are not much better.
Australian Water Dragon checking out my ride at a cafe on the river!
I think he liked it? Male of the species with the red chest.
@notsure @Lia yeah, bit unfair in my favour. Summer here in Oz and it's usually when I make up a heap of places on the mileage board. Based on my usual rate I should be at 10k by end of Jan.
"Look it goes uphill too!" some Tradie working on a house build on my route to the city.
Happy to report finally cracking the top 100 for XR mileage.....
Not the first of these I have shared, but this python caught my eye on someone's drive as I rode home last night. Had a real stumpy tail, probably and old injury.
@puzz360 said in Watching Action on the Leaderboards:
Bit of a Floyd nut here 😊
I crashed belting along to 'great gig in the sky' ...no injuries, Claire saved me....😂
@Lia Wow! 🤯🤯🤯 I haven't been here a while, but spotting this short on YT has blown my brain. Had to log in for the full story.
Congratulations on the success, full respect to you.
Hi everyone, Sorry I haven't been on the forum for a while. Life has been getting in the way until this update email arrived.
Great to read everyone's thinking. I'm going to sit on the fence for a while to see how the update might impact my 4208 XR. My ride still pretty std. The thing that would bother me most is if the pushback is changed so its as violent as the pint. After 15,000km I'm tuned into the subtle pushback of an XR.
Are the Northern Hemisphere riders back out riding yet? Or still too bleak?
I'm still climbing on the XR mileage rank, where previous years it would slow down or even go backwards around this time of year as Northerners get out there again. Maybe a big percentage has moved to the GT and parked their XR's? 🙄
@puzz360 said in Watching Action on the Leaderboards:
Bit of a Floyd nut here 😊
I crashed belting along to 'great gig in the sky' ...no injuries, Claire saved me....😂
@sirgu had two dogs go nuts at me just today, both poodles! I rest my case. 🐩🐩
@loaffette if you have a set of thread taps, you can re-tap the thread on the rails to the next size up. Does require tracking a larger screw but can get you out of trouble till the new rails show up. Or another option if you know a shop, to weld up the original hole, re-drill and tap it back to original.
A good friend and fellow OW'er featured with me in an online article.
Let me know what you think? Have we missed the point?
Somehow without mentioning, a photo from @S-Leon made it into the story? I shared the photo but also a few words about our legendary friend. You should comment on the article @S-Leon to claim your ownership of that beast of a board.
Not the first of these I have shared, but this python caught my eye on someone's drive as I rode home last night. Had a real stumpy tail, probably and old injury.
@notsure said in Torque of onewheel motors:
@stinkyface i was referring to the mechanical force applied by the apparatus, and the power required to do so.
the premise is that there is a max amount of force a person can apply to an object in a controllable manner. The human body exerts a certain force when jumping vertically.
I think we'll find that the XR is only capable of about 0.1 - 0.2g acceleration in std form. The magic formula to get from torque to acceleration is Force = mass x acceleration and the torque / wheel radius = Force. The mass bit is why lighter people can generally accelerate faster with the same driving force. Pretty sure we black out at 9g (according to Top Gun!). F1 cars accelerate at 2g, but brake and corner up to 6g.
If a board could exert anywhere near even 1g, your front leg would give way. Would be a wild ride! 😂
@onedangt said in Torque of onewheel motors:
@notsure And yet another question, what amount of torque/power would it take so the board could totally prevent nosedives?
Good question and not too hard to approximate an answer. Leaning fwd a loooong way, your centre of gravity could be as much as 1m in front of the axle, so the motor would need to produce about 1,000N.m of torque to prevent you leaning further forward. Those are pretty big numbers and I suspect the tyre would just lose traction.
People quoting power as the be all of nose dives is misleading. Torque is what the rider feels as acceleration. Lets say my really rough numbers earlier are true and the little XR can produce 200N.m of torque. I'm putting a 144V 110kW electric motor into a car conversion and it only produces 220N.m of torque, but it does rev to 8,000rpm. The XR motor is a low speed high torque electric motor.