Environments
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The freshly-laid asphalt is a pleasure for sure, but to go around the industrial facility made for three blind curves.
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@s-leon said in Environments:
three blind curves
Reminds me: the other day came around a blind left hand curve at my usual ~19 mph speed to see a young deer buck, maybe 5 or 6 points on each antler, just standing in my right hand lane. I instinctively hit the brakes and veered left to avoid him and, luckily, he turned around and darted off to the right into the forest! Whew!!!
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Critters, snakes, spiders (the usual trail stuff) but most importantly, falling branches! After it storms, I'm extra careful and when it's windy, I stay out of the woods completely. In the forestry service they're called "widow makers".
This is the newest one out of sooo many lol:
Haven't removed it yet, just cut and pushed it out of the way but you can see it was directly on the trail:
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Finally got some measurable rain here in Sacramento after 5 or 6 dry months. Came upon this small water hazard and thought, hmmm WWLD?
spoiler
Throwback to some of @lia's first vids on the old forum (IYKYK). I promise the OneDanGT was not harmed during the photoshoot.
GT-S > GT > Pint X > XR > +
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@onedangt said in Environments:
Throwback to some of @lia's first vids on the old forum (IYKYK)
I was young and naive ;)
That puddle has "go for it" written all over it. Although I'd be tempted to check it first... you know just in case.
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Walnuts are my new enemy this time of year. They hit the ground pretty hard and they're everywhere. Not uncommon for one to fall pretty close, have been lucky thus far.
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@blkdout said in Environments:
Walnuts are my new enemy
Looks like it would be like riding on big marbles!
GT-S > GT > Pint X > XR > +
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@onedangt Yeah, you definitely know when you hit one... or five! lol. I don't want to know what it's like when one hits me though. Sometimes they fall in clusters too. Yikes.
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@blkdout said in Environments:
Walnuts are my new enemy this time of year.
id turn them into brownies.
XR's got what plants crave!
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@notsure lol nice Portlandia reference.
I was thinking about tapping the trees this year for some walnut syrup but making brownies is a great idea too.
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@blkdout -- I had heard of black walnut syrup, although I have never tried any. It tastes a lot like maple syrup, they say. I do harvest black walnuts from my trees, crush the hulls down a gutter to under the wheel of a slightly jacked-up DR Powerwagon, clean the nuts in a cement mixer, store them in hardware cloth tubes, crack them with a Hunt's electric black walnut cracker, and snip the quarters out with Plato wire shears. Last year here was a great year for black walnuts -- this year not. Heavy falling nuts are another good reason to wear a helmet.
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@s-leon That's awesome! I'm gonna have to take a page out of your book. I haven't harvested much but it's becoming time to invest in some proper tools. There's so much, even the squirrels leave tons behind. They like to hide them in the honeysuckle branches but forget about them all over the place lol.
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A thick, dense build-up pad of wet autumn leaves dragging! This leaf-clog happened twice in three miles of trail.
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@s-leon Oh no D:
I had this happen with wet freshly cut grass. It's amazing how this can send you almost instantly.Guess that explains where all the leaves went in this pic though ;)
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@lia -- A clog of wet grass dumped you? Oh my! Careful, please! You are important!
The stuffed autumn leaf-pack just slowed me down, until I stopped and unclogged it -- twice. Early on when clogs of clumps of grass with dirt, and another time, snow pack (which froze the tire solidly in place), both made me walk, I decided that bolt-on fenders were not for me! Ratchet straps are much more readily removable. For the leaf-clog I did not even need to remove the funky fender; I just grabbed and pulled out handfuls of leaves, then rolled the tire -- over and over.
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In a follow up to my WWLD post above, here's the Hawaii Pint X edition:
For the record, no I didn't! :D I don't care what @lia would do!
GT-S > GT > Pint X > XR > +
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@s-leon Hold up, what kind of OW mod is that? That's actually pretty cool!
113 volts?! I could lick that!
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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.)
