Onewheel Neighbors
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@lia Same! I'd love to stop by and say hi to TFL, however shipping the Onewheel XR battery (stock) is a hasstle. Got off the phone with UPS literaly five minutes ago and they told me I need to go talk to someone who's got "hazmat certification" and ship it through them, FYI
(My mom wants to take me to LA for spring break and I want to bring my Onewheel with me, but I know I can't bring the batttery on the plane. I'd rent one but I'd probably thrash the hell out of it with how I ride my onewheel and get a fine from the renters.) {apologies for de-railing topic}
113 volts?! I could lick that!
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@loaffette there is a site called friend with a that people rent boards out on. Being in LA im sure there are tons of people who ride there. looks like renting them are around $50-$70 a day depending on model.
https://friendwitha.com/things/search/?location=los+angeles&query=one+wheel
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@cheppy44 I would but I ride like an absolute maniac and I'd bring the board back with about 20 new scratches and a missing bolt or two
I COULD try and talk to some of the people on that site and see what their expectations are
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Surprise! Out and about Ruth Anne saw yesterday, in the middle of the early Spring day, an active Onewheel up in our nearby town of 5,900 people. That's number 5 that I know of in our rural county of about 100,000 people. I am pretty sure I was the first here with a Onewheel -- and almost certainly I am the most active rider here in this county.
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@s-leon Did Ruth Anne manage to talk to them or did they zoom by too quick to get a word in?
That's pretty cool to be one of if not THE first Oneweeler in the area. For sure you're the most active~
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GT-S > GT > Pint X > XR > +
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@onedangt -- Not quite -- although a notable rider nonetheless.
@Lia -- I thought about going up to town and riding around fishing for the rider Ruth Anne saw... but then I kind of like "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Onewheel Rider." So, no contact yet. Maybe when and if they become a fixture around town.
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@s-leon Finally got another break in the non-stop rain here in Sacramento and I run into Jeff McCosker out by himself. He asked what I was up to and I told him I was looking for dry places to ride. Two thirds of my normal daily ride are inaccessible due to water on the bike trails!
GT-S > GT > Pint X > XR > +
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@onedangt wow -- well, if you're gonna randomly run into a Onewheel neighbor, it might as well be a famous one, lol.
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Onewheeling the rural road today a black SUV overtook me very slowly, and hesitantly rolled down the window to talk with me. Visiting here in Northeast Ohio from North Carolina, the guy noticed my EGO battery atop of the Onewheel and wanted to know how I hooked it up. Turns out he has EGO tools and a Onewheel Plus. So, we talked by the side of the road as motorcycles and pickup trucks stopped to ask if we were okay. The guy showed me his wife's PintX in the way back of his car. It was a neighborly surprise interaction.
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On my Onewheel I saw and talked with Matthew -- the in-his-twenties, tall, friendly, athletic, superbly balanced-and-in-control-of-his-Onewheel, wears-no-helmet-or-any-gear -- Onewheeling with his dog, Graham, on the Greenway today. I told him, "I was sure glad I was wearing a helmet today."
And then related an innocent fall I had just had on wet grass and slimy dead sticks around a fallen tree on the trail. Trying to cross angled branch-sized sticks extremely slowly, the Onewheel tipped one way, then the other, and as I jumped off my foot slipped and I went down backwards, smacking my helmet on pavement.
Not even a scuff on the helmet, but without I would be throbbing and dazed. Instead I am smiling and happy with the 36 mile ride! Only about 1492 miles to go to catch the number 1 (from Spain) on the V1 distance Leaderboard. At this rate maybe not much more than a month or two.
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Yesterday I met another Onewheel neighbor: Brody, Onewheeling a Pint on the trail where my sister and I walk a few times a week. Very nice young man, he is, a local sophomore, Onewheeling the Lakeshore Reservation, scouting the rough and windy Lake Erie that day for surfing conditions. He said he's been Onewheeling for four years now, and hopes to take it with him to Princeton in two. He was quite taken by surprise when I showed him that I hold places on the Onewheel Leaderboards.
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I drove over an hour to meet up with fellow OW, more were meant to come but the weather forecast was a gamble. All being well I have another ride with a friend to look forward to tomorrow, and a group ride on Sunday. Life is good right now. :)
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Well I met up with said friend, who is actually the one who got me into onewheeling a few months ago. Great time as always.
Smiles per hour.
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@theadman You should tell her to tie her shoe laces up in case she falls down that hill ;)
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@lia it's just perfect that's in the photo, "reckon I can drop this hill? Oh wait check your laces, it's not safe" 🤣
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The group ride was as awesome as I hoped, I'm really looking forward to the next.
Never a dull moment with this one!
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Towcester crew 👊
Zoomies and nuggies on a Friday night.
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Working on a slideshow featuring Chip. Got a lot of great photos of him over the years but I really like the one I took this evening with my GT by his side. -
So, a couple of months ago I decided to get another XR (4209) to have as a spare/donor board….
I saw that someone was selling one on the Onewheel Facebook group at the right time and I guess for about the right price.I arranged to meet the person explaining that I would be working at a semi convenient place that was also convenient to them roughly halfway between us. No worries.
The night before I was going to meet them, the number one Pint daystreak holder Trappedinanelevator messaged me through the OW app to say congrats for making it onto the XR leaderboard.
I said thanks and mentioned I was going to meet “some guy” tomorrow to buy another board… well, yep you guessed it, it was Trappedinanelevator selling his XR. How mad….It was cool to meet up for a coffee, now I have 2 XRs ;)
We live about 150 to 200 miles apart so hardly neighbours but I thought it was a nice story.
