Environments
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On the Greenway today, riding on the OneDanXR I passed a Park Ranger on patrol in his Jeep SUV. Tailed then for fifteen long minutes of riding slow I expected some kind of official discussion on our arrival to the parking lot -- I have heard he has been talking with riders of any kind of electric wheels. But no, I waved as he silently passed me by. It could be that he did not want to have to try to talk with someone who wears a big "a bit DEAF" sign taped to the back of their helmet.
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Decidedly, I no longer enjoy riding my V1 on the long, straight, smooth, paved Greenway. After Onewheel cruising there at 21, 22, and 23 miles-per-hour with the OneDanXR and my Onewheel Pluses, even 17 mph on the V1 is not satisfying. So, afraid I will push the board too hard in that environment, I am choosing different conditions in which slower riding is more satisfying -- acres of relatively-smooth-but-still-a-bit-bumpy grass.
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@s-leon A shame but it's understandable. I'm sure it will find a use.
I like to ride mine around the apartment to get tea or something since the low speed and easy terrain makes it ideal unlike the XR which in Delirium is waiting to punch a hole in my walls.
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@s-leon My V1 currently resides in my work shop. I’ve been mainly using it to get back and forth from our shop to our office which is just under a half mile one way on pavement. With a small detour or a lap or two inside a 20 car garage it is easy for me to put on the required 1 mile to keep the day streak going.
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"You're so damn fast on that thing!" -- A comment I got this week from a frequent Greenway bicyclist in my regular environment. In his mirror he hadn't seen me Onewheeling up behind until I called out -- "Coming up... Passing..." and then he was startled.
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Here is part of the story: For years this stretch has been a hang-up in the forty-four mile long Western Reserve Greenway Trail -- my favorite trail on which to Onewheel. A detour around this property has been a mile and a half on three different roads -- two quiet and one busier. Apparently protracted negotiation or litigation or something has been successful. It looks to me like, with gravel base down, this trail stretch will be paved sometime this week. Now soon, except for crossing roads, NONE of the forty-four miles of paved Greenway trail has to share with cars and trucks.
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@s-leon Wow. Just found out I must be reading english context pretty darn slowly. Because my brain rushed forward by giving me premonition this to end like 'landowner privatizating this stretch' or smth. Fortunately the story had much better outcome.
44 mil of continuous paved path without cars - we def don't have such here!
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@sirgu -- I should have been more clear. When the railway was abandoned, the industrial facility encroached. So then when the railway was converted to a Greenway, for years the industrial facility resisted the Rails-to-Trails/Ashtabula MetroParks claim to the right-of-way. Work underway to pave that section means that somehow the issue is resolved. The industrial facility still encroaches some, but the Greenway still has room to continue through -- no more detour on roads.
And yes, forty-four miles of paved Greenway Trail mostly through woods and farm fields is a treasure! Although I think I have Onewheeled on all of it, my favorite sections are about eight miles of it nearest to where I live.
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After a long process, the completion section of the Ashtabula Western Reserve Greenway Trail is now paved -- but not yet open. Maybe an official ribbon-cutting event or something is planned. -- Doesn't that smooth, fresh, almost-liquid pavement make me salivate! -
@s-leon Hold me back I want to ride on it
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@s-leon they are tearing up and repaving the streets and alleys in my neighborhood this summer. it's been needed for at least 50 years, from what my elderly neighbors are saying. our alley is done, and it's glorious. i can't wait until the entire thing is done. soooo smooooothhhh....
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@s-leon said in Environments:
Doesn't that smooth, fresh, almost-liquid pavement make me salivate!
Where's the fresh Hoosier track from the OneDanXR??? Thought you were a rebel!
GT-S > GT > Pint X > XR > +
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@onedangt -- The one rash bicyclist's tracks on the soft, warm asphalt can take the negative approval. Onewheel riders are, or can be, citizen angels!
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Burning a brush pile while riding a Onewheel V1.
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Without ceremony, the traffic cones have been removed and the Greenway connector described above is open! Today I bicycled it -- tomorrow I Onewheel it!
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XR's got what plants crave!
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@notsure -- The story behind my bicycling the Greenway is that after a fall from my Onewheel in March my sister won't ride with me if I am Onewheeling -- so, to keep up our weekly ride together I join her on a bicycle.
And here's a sweet story: A year ago or more when while riding together I pushed my V1 too hard, it cut out, and I got to test my freewheel brakes, falling after laying down black skid marks -- in the same moment in sympathy (and no other apparent cause) my sister took a fall off her bicycle. I am very glad neither of us were hurt. And while that experience did not keep her from riding with me as I Onewheeled, shattering my collarbone in a Onewheel fall in March --while not with her -- has.
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The freshly-laid asphalt is a pleasure for sure, but to go around the industrial facility made for three blind curves.
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@s-leon said in Environments:
three blind curves
Reminds me: the other day came around a blind left hand curve at my usual ~19 mph speed to see a young deer buck, maybe 5 or 6 points on each antler, just standing in my right hand lane. I instinctively hit the brakes and veered left to avoid him and, luckily, he turned around and darted off to the right into the forest! Whew!!!
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Critters, snakes, spiders (the usual trail stuff) but most importantly, falling branches! After it storms, I'm extra careful and when it's windy, I stay out of the woods completely. In the forestry service they're called "widow makers".
This is the newest one out of sooo many lol:
Haven't removed it yet, just cut and pushed it out of the way but you can see it was directly on the trail:
