I got to visit Onewheel HQ 🥰
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Finally got to check this off the todo list 🥰
@cheppy44 , Me and Kyle outside the office. 2 XS's and a freshy XRHuge shoutout to Kyle, Joey, Jack and the team for actually taking the time to see our little creations and show us about a little.
Not to mention Andy, Lisa and Joaquin who enabled the visit. Drove us from SF to Santa Cruz. They were super cool and we spent the rest of the day and evening exploring SF ^-^
They were heading to Santa Cruz to drop off a red truck they used at their exhibit which actually happened to be the same one FM used in some promotional material (you can still see the decals used to say onewheel).
Seeing the XS's lined up in their office was great.
Shame there wasn't one we could leave with them but we gave Kyle one of the 2 rails we made extra so they have something from the XS to keep ahold of. Wren has the other :3Something I was super stoked to see was old Ironsides. The OG that started it all. It's quite the thing in person!
It did work but they had to connect some bits 😅 Didn't get to ride it though. Kinda forgot to ask.
Ironsides, the XS MK1 and the Mk2. I sort of want to do a half scale of it too but I think a GT-S is more appropriate. especially since I plan to make one of these actually move under me.
After a bit the guys took us through parts of the office. I won't share those pics since that's probably not something we should share in case there were secrets I didn't notice. However we did get to take the Onewheel barrow for a spin.
After our visit Joey had lunch with us at a nearby oceanside café.
Was a fun little area to chill and chat. Got to hear some cool inside deets about RFTR.I'm glossing over bits but I'm still sort of trying to relax after everything that happened last week 😅 Got a bunch of things to still share but like no time to share D: Need to take a day to just unwind.
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@lia Great to see your work of art getting the recognition it deserves from Kyle and FM!
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@lemur Thank you 🥰 They were really nice. Joey was really nice and hung around for a bit.
Also got to keep one of the little desk toy boards they had hiding on a doorframe :3
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@lia said in I got to visit Onewheel HQ 🥰:
Got s bunch of things to still share
... but you told them about the rails right?
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@lemur said in I got to visit Onewheel HQ 🥰:
@lia Great to see your work of art getting the recognition it deserves from Kyle and FM!
well said!
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wow! so cool to see you chilling with the bigwigs! congratulations! the XSs look so perfect!
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Great viewing materials!
Looks like Onewheel barrow has some sort of physical switches or pressure sensors under either of handles. I'm taking a raw guess someone's DIY 'counterfeit' prototype featured gyros only plus some sort of on/off. Cannot find a link anymore to examine. -
@sirgu There was a single switch under one of the handles to activate it. Under the bucket was a printed housing that looked like it held a onewheel controller.
They initially said it was a Pint hub till I said “it looks like a GT hub unless you guys have something coming soon we don’t know about”.
Considering there were rumours of a Pint XP and we’re approaching October when they typically announce new boards we may be seeing a Pint with extra beans but it could have honestly been something misremembered.
That said could you imagine a tanky lil Pint? That’d be sick.
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@lia said in I got to visit Onewheel HQ 🥰:
They initially said it was a Pint hub till I said “it looks like a GT hub unless you guys have something coming soon we don’t know about”.
haha, good catch! a tanky little Pint would be fantastic!
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@lia said in I got to visit Onewheel HQ 🥰:
Something I was super stoked to see was old Ironsides. The OG that started it all. It's quite the thing in person!
I may be inspired to recreate old Ironsides in 1:1
that would be too funny to take to events, perhaps pretend I broke in and stole the board from FM. -
@fosterqc Omg yes that would be so cool. Would you keep the power side the same for authenticity or make it a sleeper build?
