Hacks & Odds
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Had to walk today -- for the first time in a long time. A pull-stick I made from a fallen branch worked well for an easy drag the three and a half miles back to the car.
A contact blade on the adapter for the EGO battery got pushed in to the point of losing contact -- and I had no tools with me. I had stopped Onewheeling for a moment, the board powered off -- and then would not power back on.
Apparently contact-blade-movement on these adapters is a common problem, because once a while back the blades moved on a Sonny Wheels adapter I used, and now I see a blade retracting in on a LandSurf adapter I use.
My solution to the problem is pull the blade to where it should be, drill a hole through the 3D-printed-plastic and the blade, and put in a pin or a screw to anchor the blade -- being very careful not to short the connection by two opposite polar anchor screws touching deep in the plastic. -
@s-leon I found the perfect bucket for you!
If you flip it upside down it even spells out your name :p -
The BadgerSense LED strip needed more than just the clips holding it onto to the baling wire sticking out from my sensor pad... So, I twisted the baling wire around the BadgerSense LED... The shadow of twisted wire is entertaining to look at as I ride -- ever changing!
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@cheppy44 -- Finding the right fit of a can or a cooking pot as a Onewheel fender is surprisingly time-consuming. The only reason my stock pot fit was that I was using extended rails and a narrow 5.5 Hoosier tire, the combination of which allowed for the arc of the lip to not interfere with the sensor pad. The height, or depth, of the pot was a little bothersome for mounting batteries on top -- so, I was looking for a shallower cooking pot of the same dimension, and did not find one. For the convenience of easy modification I then went back to wooden fender/battery platforms.
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@s-leon yeah that one is a bit too narrow and tall, but when i saw it I thought of you and your stock pot fender and just had to share it. :)
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Covered with a 3'x5' piece of scrap metal siding that I found in the roadside ditch on the way to the Greenway, like in a locker I left my Onewheel Plus out-of-sight in the woods trailside. Turns out I did not like the awkward forty-plus pounds of Onewheel and EGO battery strapped to the back of the electric bicycle -- which likely means I would not like that weight strapped to an electric motorcycle either. Of course, I brought back the external EGO battery -- my Onewheel Plus's only power source. In the case of a predicted snowstorm this winter I will probably bike the Onewheel home ahead of time, too. In the meantime it will be interesting to see if I like the system of leaving the Onewheel alone by itself in the woods, just bringing a fresh battery to it on the bike... when I want to Onewheel the Greenway.
Edit to add: With twelve miles logged on one day back riding my Onewheel Plus today, I am number 57 on the Plus Daystreak -- which seems not-too-bad for the number of Onewheel Plus riders the day after a late November holiday.
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@s-leon wow thats very bold just leaving it out there. or maybe im confused on what you are actually doing with it.
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@cheppy44 -- Yes, I left my Onewheel Plus in the woods rather than carry the heavy and awkward thing back strapped to my electric bike. Tomorrow I will ride the bike over, taking an EGO battery, and Onewheel the Greenway -- then bring the Plus home as heavy rain is predicted for Sunday... See the "Where's Onewheel" thread for a photo.
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Again! The other EGO adapter contact blade got loose, retracting in as I slid the battery on. (See photos in posts above.) No contact, the board would not engage. A somewhat long walk ahead, I decided to play with the blade and connection. Gingerly sliding the battery on, getting the motor to engage, I headed back, riding at walking speed across drought-dry, bumpy grass. Dumped by disconnection I was, sure enough, a few hundred yards later. Play again, ride again, dumped again -- but this time almost there.
Back at the house I drilled into this blade through the plastic, 3-D printed housing and -- instead of inserting a metal screw like the other side -- I tapped in a plastic pin. Both contact blades now are good and solidly secured. I should have secured the second one long ago when I secured the first.
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@s-leon Hopefully that's the last time the connector causes any troubles :)
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Inspired by photos and videos on the Mundo Music website of musicians carrying guitars, cellos, and conga drums on their bicycles, I worked out carrying two Onewheels on one bike at one time -- basically one on one side of the back wheel and one on the other side, wheels overlapping, strapped to the rear rack, and strapped together, too. The weight is like that of a child riding on the back -- it doesn't feel much different than one Onewheel back there.
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Photos of my twins:
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@s-leon this makes me smile
idk why, but I love the look of two onewheel's stuck on the back of a street bicycle with a bunch of wood
also are those bits of bike tire on the nose end of each one wheel?
113 volts?! I could lick that!
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@loaffette -- Yes, the bicycle tire arcs attached to wooden rail extensions function as freewheel brakes. The bike-mounting orientation is nose down, as that's where the weight resides when there is no battery underfoot in the tail. The wood is fender & battery platform.
So, I ride the ebike with the Onewheels on the back four miles to the Greenway, and a half mile down the trail. Then I park the bike behind a trail bench and ride each Onewheel for miles on the paved trail through the woods and farm fields -- leaving the other Onewheel with the ebike. On the sparely used trail my security measures: distance from civilization; the funky, non-attractiveness of my set-up; locking the ebike battery & pocketing the key; and using only one 12ah EGO battery (expensive!) to ride each Onewheel in succession, thereby never leaving a battery with the unattended Onewheel.
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I like to ride around in cheap canvas slip on sneakers. I like them really snug so my feet don't slide around inadvertently and throw me off balance. I'm also terribly vain. I dislike the look of low cut slip ons with socks. I think it looks weird. So to recap- I like to wear cheap, tightly-fitted, low-cut, slip on, canvas sneakers with no socks while I ride around my neighborhood in the midst of Summer.
So naturally you must be thinking "Dear God, he must have appalling feet! Just ghastly, unholy rank hooves. Grotesque beyond compare!" And normally you'd be right, however, you'd actually be wrong. It seems to defy logic! Why? How?
The answer is simple: iodized salt. That's right. I salt my shoes. When they're new, I go for a ride and afterwards, I pack the interior with a thick layer of iodized table salt. The next day, I'll dump em out like sand, ride around as usual, and after just a few treatments, no issues at all! It acts as both a desiccant and antimicrobial.
The trick is to really get them salted. U can walk through the sprinkler with them on and you'll have no problems whatsoever. Getting them wet actually makes it work better! No pervasive stinky shoe smell. No burning or itching athlete's foot. No gross slimy interiors. No weird chemicals...
And def no goofy ass socks!
XR's got what plants crave!
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@notsure -- A great "odd" solution after my own heart!
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@notsure this sounds so crazy it probably works as advertised!
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@notsure I am in awe at this. It feels like a long lost life hack rediscovered.
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This week I had the plastic pin I had holding one blade of the EGO adapter shear while pushing a battery on. I searched through a tray of odds & ends finding short metal screws to take the place of the plastic pins -- yet not to touch and short out with the pinning screw from the other side of the EGO adapter. So far, so good.
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