Things to buy for OW Xr protection
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I'm curious as to what I need to buy or should by un order to keep my XR going and lasting for a lot longer. It's bone stock with nothing except for a fender addon.
I am thinking about a waterproofing kit and a bearing protection kit for starters
113 volts?! I could lick that!
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@loaffette All depends on when/where you ride. Being a fair weather rider on mostly paved or relatively smooth trails, I never waterproofed or covered the bearings on my XR and sold it with 7,000+ miles on it to @S-Leon on this forum in very good condition. The one thing I did add for protection was float plates to protect the bottoms of the bumpers, as they can get scuffed up and or damaged from drops and such. If you plan on doing tricks, drops, and bonks, TFL has bang bumpers made of much better material than the OEM bumpers, so you could consider those.
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@loaffette -- In this old man's opinion... Safety gear! ...If you are laid-up you won't be Onewheeling. (Knee pads and elbow pads have saved me a number of times. Falling at 25mph earlier this year I was saved by rolling onto the back hard plastic scallops of a Fox CE jacket and sliding like on a toboggin.)
If you ride at all in wet weather, waterproofing is a great start for the XR itself -- especially the battery/BMS box. Unless you're riding in corrosive conditions, bearings seem to hold up reasonably well.
And yes, @OneDanGT , the OneDanXR is still in very good condition after more than a thousand miles added to that 7,128! I have been trying not to ride it in the wet here in Northeast Ohio (storing it at half charge until better weather again).
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@s-leon understood! I'm very hard on my eqquipment, so I try my best to kind of everything-proof my stuff. I do use my OW as a way to relieve stress and do plan on riding in the rain
I ACTUALLY am buying a helmet, though I'm going to be doing special with it :)
