Pictute of my board on the local UTD campus
Beautiful campus, though the campus life is pretty dead
LOAFFETTE
@LOAFFETTE
Studying to be a Mechanical Engineering Manufacturing at Tarleton State - Sophomore
Big into making cool things weird and even cooler!
Current owner of a VESC (With extra danger points)!
Becomes unhinged and possibly turns mental after 12 AM!
Best posts made by LOAFFETTE
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RE: In The Wild, Photo Share (If Possible To Capture).... Keep Your OneWheel In The Shot If You Can.
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Future Motion is selling the GT-S motor
https://youtu.be/oczYnzF2Zm8?si=2m8amR5cWaZbvmCO
I saw this today.
I'm not sure if I'm going mad or what but...
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RE: Vesc Conversion Status (Rose/Mika)
Guess who's back!
so my parents bought me a 18S2P battery from the BoardGarage that runs off of 50s cells. They also got my an accompanying charger and thr XLITE-V3.Spent all day setting it up, and it works!... after I accidentally plugged it into the stock harnesses reverse polarized connector. Had to replace the XT-60 on both the battery and the harness
gonna rip her around the neighborhood this morning, I'm excited
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Finally getting the hang of going up curbs!
I'm getting the hang of the art of "going up curbs"
Super excited, just need to get it down and become more consistentCurbs are no longer a obstacle, only a mere pebble. Next is stairs, then after that. . .
Run
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RE: In The Wild, Photo Share (If Possible To Capture).... Keep Your OneWheel In The Shot If You Can.
Time for a Onewheel update!
(The school doesn't lock the gate to the track, so I ususally go there at night to ride around. The ground on the track makes my tire act weird, but it is fun acting like your racing other people!)The onewheel XR has been treating me well so far! It has turned from a cool toy to a tool in my life. My bike I have is good for getting to walmart and such, but bad for getting to classes due to it's footprint and how people congest both the sidewalks and the roads (No, seriously. People just walk in the middle of the street. It's dumb.) and the onewheel, with a massive speed reduction lets me weave past people if I have enough space.
The onewheel currently has stock everything except bumpers, tire (provided by @OneDanGT (Thanks man!)) and rear footpad. Next on the list is life savers for my rims because I ride this thing like a psycho at night or when there's lots of space and I'm going to start to learn tricks. The badger provided by @S-Leon (thanks man!) will be installed this week as well. I will try to design clips to attatch the LED strip to it.
Down the road, I will look into a battery upgrade, and finally either new rails or maybe even a VESC. After that, I'll water proof the board and I should be done with it for a long while!
Also, it's icing outside so that is going to severely limit my riding time. Ice isn't as hard as I thought, but braking with the bumper causes the onewheel to slide, and turning sometimes feels wack.
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RE: Thank you
@lia The only thing I can really say is that whining doesn't really help anything, and it's better to look on the bright side.
I remember hearing something like it takes more energy to frown than to smile.
But thank you for making the forum in the first place! I wouldn't have a onewheel without you guys!
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RE: In The Wild, Photo Share (If Possible To Capture).... Keep Your OneWheel In The Shot If You Can.
went on a trip in Colorado, brought Warstick with me
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RE: Watching Action on the Leaderboards
I'm in the top 100 now
i'M cOmInG fOr ThE tOp SpOt
Latest posts made by LOAFFETTE
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RE: Vesc Conversion Status (Rose/Mika)
@loaffette damn, I lost all of my images. I will look at trying to replace these
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RE: FM are selling parts!
@lia they are offering parts for the Plus and the original onewheel though, but it's only the bumper
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RE: FM are selling parts!
I feel ashamed
I just posted about this and neglected to see this post ; - ; -
RE: FM selling XR, Pint and GT parts (Alt. title: FM hit their head and had a personality change)
another note
Who wants a new bumper for their onewheel?
https://onewheel.com/products/bumpers
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RE: FM selling XR, Pint and GT parts (Alt. title: FM hit their head and had a personality change)
@loaffette I forgot to mention
No rails
Honestly no biggie since people sent to replace their rails with alternatives down the line, but it's an important note -
FM selling XR, Pint and GT parts (Alt. title: FM hit their head and had a personality change)
This is already a very weird year.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls:
https://onewheel.com/collections/hardware-spare-parts
Either someone I know drugged my water supply or FM is really selling parts for their boards, going all the way back to the XR and all the way to the GT.
They sell a lot of parts you'd expect for them to sell. Gakets, screws, o-rings, covers, and even the wiring harness!Some of it isn't terribly prices. The XR's 6 and 16 pin connectors are both 7 dollars each, and the fender hardware kits for all of the boards are only 7 dollars!
There are some really enticing deals as well. An axle block costs 35 dollars for XR and pint, while the GT is 45. That is actually a really good deal if you wanna build a board from parts or if you wanna replace some broken ones. You don't get the advantages the aftermarket axle blocks provide, but those are at least starting at 100 dollars for the cheapest option.
There are some... questionable deals though. The GT LED PCB is...
55 dollars?!
I mean...
That's a little much, is it not? I'm not an electrical engineer, but that's a lot for some LEDs...The XR cable harness that runs from the controller and into the battery is 80 dollars.
I am unsure of that price..
Most people don't really know how to terminate/use crimping tools to make their own cable harness, and most probably don't want to mess with the wacky wiring.
So if you're in a pinch and you're an absolute go-getter, then I guess it's fine..???However, they've stopped short of selling batteries, controllers, Pint/X or GT/S cables glands, and the old hypercore motor (Which if it was priced right, could probably make it a competitive alternative for the Superflux and Cannon Core.)
I'm happy for this though. I've always wondered until I printed my new controller box where I'd get a replacement controller lid... (For about 40 bucks)
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RE: Onewheel Trade In Program (Ending March 8th 2024)
@lia Could be doing it to try and get everyone off of the XR/GT and onto the GTS which has enough horsepower that most riders probably wouldn't need to worry or even think about pushback/nosediving
MY best guess is it's trying to limit liability to trying to keep CSPS off their backs any way possible. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the case.
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RE: Onewheel Trade In Program (Ending March 8th 2024)
@onedangts The things that I've seen people keep are usually the footpad, the old wiring harness, motor and axle bolts
Sometimes the original BMS is reused but put into a charge-only state if they are running a 15S, though with the Pickle BMS being a drop-in replacement for the stock FM one, I'm not sure