Posts made by Franko

@loaffette i love the look of the S, and it sounds like it's a sweet spot for me as far as range goes. i don't really care too much about the new footpads -- although, less chance of the Mount of Shame is nice -- and the Mag handle isn't super crucial for me either. Neither is the tire. I'm not a speed demon, so i'm meh on that. So then i look again at the X, and i think, "well dang, i could just save several hundred dollars and get that. it has the same specs, and it's getting the same firmware update, and that's all i need."

All that being said, the S really is a pretty machine, so... drool.

@lia it was! that rain made for one of the best years i can remember in a long, long time. it was fantastic. kinda hoping it rains again this year, but alas, the long-range forecast is looking like a totally normal (perhaps even slightly cooler) year.

@notsure Bummer! Of course, tickets are cheaper and plentiful this year, too. I missed their camp last year, but you can see a brief clip of them here. I'm interested in trying out their ramps and bumps:

https://youtu.be/gyw3b8QwbeY?t=4309

I'm headed out a week from tomorrow (Aug. 23)... and this year i think i'll bring my OG Pint again. I haven't brought it in a few years because i don't know anyone else with one, and i was worried about theft -- well, i'm still worried about theft, but now there are so many (newer ones) on the playa i'm sure mine won't be as tempting, haha. Anyway, i know there is at least one OW camp out there (shoutout to Keepin' it Wheel camp!). I plan on coming by and saying hello. Anyone else going to be at the burn this year?

@loaffette and here i was, hoping for a new Pint version, sigh.

@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!

wow! so cool to see you chilling with the bigwigs! congratulations! the XSs look so perfect!

@lemur interesting! i haven't updated yet, but i'm intrigued by the remaining mileage idea...

@loaffette i got the email the other day about their Pint batteries. Mine are still doing fine, but i admit i was tempted to get one just as a backup....

@highspeeddirt i'm so old that i never read the WWW guide until we're in the Exodus line, lol. I have last year's here on my desk... my plan is to look through it for stuff that was cool LAST year, and then use that to search out the same camps and events for this year. hopefully it will come back, because that sounds fun.

@highspeeddirt there was? dang, i need to be on better lists, lol. i'd love to meet other riders. i'm all by my lonesome

cue sad violins

@highspeeddirt there should be a OW rider's meetup at the burn. (maybe there is??)

@highspeeddirt i've brought my Pint out there a couple times, but mostly i end up leaving it at home because i don't want to have to haul it in every bar or camp i hit, and i'm worried about theft. that being said, i see more and more of them on-playa every year, and i'm thinking of bringing it and riding it this year. the first half of last year was incredible for riding, i'm sure. i saw pix of ABANDONED onewheels in the mud, which... omg... if i had seen one, i would've probably nabbed it, lol

oh, and the speed limit is 5mph, not 10 -- not that apparently anyone heeds it. this year is gonna be a total shitshow of high-speed ebike wrecks, i'm sure.

@loaffette looking forward to pix! go mom!

@lia it's kinda steampunky, lol. watch your fingers!

@lia nice video! those pix of Kyle riding that early prototype outside his garage are amazing. And that "Ol' Ironsides" one!! 😵

@lia i'll pass it on to the person. thanks!

[EDIT]: update -- they said:

"Thank you for that advice! So I got home and I opened it all up and everything looked great, unfortunately lol. I was hoping I would see something that was obvious but it looked pristine once I got the cover off. The good news is I got it to work… The bad news is… I don't know how. I started pushing down on things just to see if anything was loose and then all of a sudden the light comes on. A couple minutes later I was doing something and the light went off and then I pushed down again and the light came back on. so I went ahead and connected everything back together and the light stayed on and I was able to ride it but now I'm worried it's going to shut off. 😬😬😬 I can't trust it to ride it rn because I can only assume I would nosedive."

Hi all -- just saw this over on the OW subreddit (i know, i know, i swore i was going to stop reading it!), and i was wondering if anyone here had any tips or advice for this poor Pint owner. I have no idea what could possibly be going on, but i know lots of people here are very very knowledgeable about such things, so i thought i'd do them a solid and see if anyone had any ideas:

https://www.reddit.com/r/onewheelpint/comments/1bt9jb5/help/

This is kinda wacky -- haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else yet:

https://hackaday.com/2024/03/22/youtuber-builds-onewheel-with-tracks-instead-and-its-not-great/

@lia i get nervous at 15 mph -- but then i'm on an OG Pint, so at that speed nosedives become a reality very quickly, lol