Onewheel Neighbors
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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" š¤£
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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 š
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 boardā¦.
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 āsome guyā tomorrow to buy another boardā¦ well, yep you guessed it, it was Trappedinanelevator selling his XR. How madā¦.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. -
Another awesome group ride today. 10 riders in total.
@Puzz360 whereabouts are you? We'll have to get you in on one of these if close enough.
Smiles per hour.
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@theadman Iām not far from Ride & Glide in Sussexā¦ itās not beyond the realms of possibility for a meet-up butā¦ā¦ probably a 2 and 1/2 hour driveā¦. If I am heading up your way any time Iāll message you in case it coincides with a ride out. Cheers.
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@theadman love the photo btwā¦.
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@puzz360 this one was up near Mansfield so 1.5 hours for us, with one rider driving 1 hour south.
There was one in Northants and and another near Oxford.
The is talk of riding the roundabout city as the weather turns and the mud season begins. :) -
@theadman ah so cool dood. Iām yet to see any other Onewheel riders out and about, Iām in the North East. Got a couple of pals in Manchester that ride and canāt wait to get over for a little cruise with them!
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@teddybeavis I was riding about Newcastle a few weeks ago when work had me up there.
