Environments
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@loaffette haha which one @S-Leon's? I think it has something to do with moving the weight of the battery so that there is more torque before push back? Either that or I am just making stuff up and they just wanted a different battery there.
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Hi @cheppy44 -- Here's the story of how the EGO battery came to be mounted above my sensor foot: When I started riding with 6.5 shock absorbers I needed a fender/battery platform with height to go over them. Looking around my junk I found a thin stainless steel cooking pot that fit nearly perfectly -- except it was too high to reasonably mount a heavy battery atop. And, at the time, for range, I wanted to mount two EGO batteries. On the sides of the stock pot the handles made nice little shelves to keep the batteries from sliding down when I hugged them to the pot with a ratchet strap. But batteries mounted to the sides seemed like it would be tippy, and in front-to-back the rear battery made for uncomfortable awkwardness, so then I really just used only the one in front. I was a little skeptical about its placement, but I was more focused on the shock absorber ride. Lo and behold! -- I liked the weight and feel of eight extra pounds above my sensor foot (with NO stock battery weight under the trailing foot) -- and I am not really sure why. So, when I slapped together this wooden fender I tried to recreate that feel. Actually, I prefer the mount I did on my Onewheel Plus of just cantilevering the EGO battery out over the sensor foot -- because then strapping it down (which is important!) puts another strap holding the entire fender/platform to the rails. Soon I will change this fender/platform further exploring the cantilever placement.
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@loaffette -- The arcs of bicycle tire on the back with the extra long wooden struts are my freewheel brakes. More than once I have experienced overcharge electrical cut-out, and going downhill the slippery bumper would do nothing to slow me down. The first day I put my first set on my Onewheel V1 tested it: Not going downhill I overwhelmed the EGO battery (sole power) to nosedive cut-out, except I saved the dive only to try to brake with regen -- which of course did not work -- and rubber engaged with pavement, leaving skid marks, and wonderfully slowing me down, weaving and dancing, until when I fell it was then gently and easily. The freewheel brakes worked! (Keep in mind the Greenway environment in which I mostly ride is flat and paved with only a couple of sloped hills -- no tricks or steep gnarly trails.)
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@onedangt -- One of my favorite experiences about Onewheeling soon after a rain is looking down at the puddle reflections of clouds and blue sky.
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@s-leon I was talking about the wooden crate but that actually is a pretty smart mod
113 volts?! I could lick that!
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@loaffette -- Oh! Hmmm... I have played with several versions of the wood crate fender/platform. Sturdy and solid are the best features in the current 2"x 4" based realization. The weight, to me, is not really much of an issue. Earlier boxes had warping, dimensionality, and "walking" issues due to being knocked about and being ridden in soggy wet environments. Too, I added clips and wooden stops to keep wires and things in place. Lately the clips have been randomly losing their wire handles -- time for a new clip idea.
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@s-leon while it might not win any beauty contests, it is still very cool to see you making it your own! Can you carry a spare one around and swap it out?
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Trail hazard in the environs of local farm fields. Just a few seconds after throwing this ear of dry field corn off the Greenway I was surprised to actually watch a squirrel let loose of another ear of dry field corn at the edge of the pavement a little further down the trail. With my V1 a few years ago I ran over an ear of squirrel-dropped field corn on the Greenway and nearly tumbled. So, I watch for these hazardous ears of corn and toss them off the trail when I see them.
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Snow country for old men...
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@s-leon "Several feet of snow"... oh wow be safe!
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@lia -- Ha! The "several feet of snow" turned out to only be about two inches deep.
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@s-leon Still a lot for me, barely seen maybe 2 in my life.
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@lia Ha I thought about cutting up an old shovel earlier this week when It started snowing here. The downside would be you have to kinda be nose dragging to get it to clear the path. Unless you had some kind of spring loaded mount pushing the blade into the ground hmmmmm
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@cheppy44 said in Environments:
some kind of spring loaded mount pushing the blade into the ground
You've just invented a new kind of nosedive!
GT-S > GT > Pint X > XR > +
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@onedangt A nose-plummet
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So off I finally went on my first real ride in almost 2 months due to all the rain and storms we've had here in CA. I come up to the light at the bridge that crosses the Sacramento river, punch the walk button, and a car stops right across the walkway with no way to move forward due to another driver that stopped ahead of him. After seeing him thinking about backing up and me yelling at him not to, I proceed to weave my way around the back of the car. Walkers were coming the other way, so they had to avoid this as well.
Anyway, as I come around the car I see another car about to turn right into my, and the pedestrian's, path. As I watch him notice us all and stop (always look for that eye contact), I see a HUGE pothole right in front of me. Maybe a foot around and almost as deep as the wheel below my GT's rails. Couldn't stop, but braced for impact as I thought for sure I was going down. I was only moving maybe 5 mph, but I de-weighted and the GT popped up the other side of the hole! WOOHOO, success!!
It's the small things, lol
GT-S > GT > Pint X > XR > +
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@onedangt nailed it! All those skills are paying off!
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The snowiest days here in Northeast Ohio can be in the month of March. Good thing I went Onewheeling earlier today before today's white-out started. And it felt GOOD! to be on the board brisking down the Greenway. Most of this winter I have been riding my electric bike TO the Greenway, with the Onewheel Plus strapped on the luggage rack on the back for riding ON the Greenway. So, I have not been Onewheeling much in snow, avoiding bicycling on the rural roads when a heavy snowplow with a lane-sized broad blade might be scraping by. Nor has bicycling in steady rainfall appealed to me. And although I do worry a bit about the loss of range in the downright cold on both the Onewheel and the bike, if the roads and the trail are clear I ride! Using the bicycle for cartage limits me to carrying one Onewheel -- so much for multiple streaks, or merry high mileage. Interesting to me, too, is that the road grades up from the river are not slowing me down as much as when I first was bicycling them. Better condition, now, my body must be in. Passing picturesque, clear, liquidy icicles on a farm field ditch waterfall into the roadside ditch I should have stopped and snapped a photograph. As it was I just admired it passing by.
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@s-leon Glad you managed to get a ride in before the snow! I can't fathom having snow in March, I barely just got my shorts and skirts back out here on my little island.
Happy to hear you're doing well with the cycling too. I'm impressed, almost envious since I used to ferry my board around in the Craft&Ride backpack on my eBike and I barely managed!
Passing picturesque, clear, liquidy icicles on a farm field ditch waterfall into the roadside ditch I should have stopped and snapped a photograph
Definitely get a pic next time if you can of that if you can, it sounds magical :)
