Best posts made by OneDanGTS-XL

I'll start off with a comparison photo, GT with the psycho tuna sticker and the TFL colorway GTS.

I couldn't believe it myself, but I can feel the weight difference when carrying the GTS down the stairs. I mean, it's only a couple of pounds, but definitely feels lighter.

From the second I stepped on and leveled out, I could feel the difference, it just smoothly balanced out, unlike my previous boards where there's like a little "catch" that balances you. I took it on my normal daily ride and, besides the range (which was showing 20 miles and turned out to be pretty accurate), almost the entire ride was improved. Sidewalk and pavement cracks disappeared, like I couldn't even feel them. I tried to not de-weight any bumps for the first half of the ride and it just ate up all the smaller bumps and powered right over the bigger ones, never losing grip at all.

My approx half mile off road gravel/dirt paths felt noticeably more confident. I wasn't as careful choosing my lines as it didn't seem to matter as much as it used to. Coming off the gravel back onto the path there's an inch or inch and a half bump to go up. I normally take that cautiously, but on the GTS I barely felt it. Perhaps part of that is the tire and part the available power.

On my GT, my highest ever speed was exactly 20.0 mph. Here's my ride results:

I didn't try to go 22 mph and was really just doing my usual "get up to a comfortable speed" thing. Was pretty strange glancing at my watch and almost always seeing 21!

I have a few relatively steep hills to climb, but they almost didn't seem to exist. And heading into the wind, I was like "what wind?". I could feel it, but it wasn't slowing me down at all. I actually hit my first high of 22.1 going against the wind.

Will try keeping the speed down a bit next time (yeah, right) to see if I can get more range, but what fun is that?

@notsure Really hope you get to ride your board. Would love to hear how you compare it to the XR.

Congrats to @lia . . . the forum has hit 100 users! WOOHOO!!!

It's charging, but here's some eye candy!

The OneDanGTS along the American River Parkway on a beautiful morning.

@notsure said in GTS First Ride:

Went straight to Apex.

I was a Delirium rider on my XR and nothing but Apex on my GT. When the GTS arrived, I tried the popular Flow thinking with all the extra power, I wouldn't "need" Apex. Got to my 1/2 mile dirt road turn around point and Flow wasn't doing it for me on the dirt, although the ride to get there was nice. Switched to Apex and rode home and liked that a lot. Next day, stayed on Apex and wasn't as smooth at speed, so wanted Flow back, lol.

Long story long, I did this to Flow and so far it really feels improved for my riding.

Edit: @LOAFFETTE, this also beefed up the low speed torque, so now it accelerates quick at almost any speed.

@biell said in Forum rules?:

Maybe the moderators can just go in when it happens and fix it up for people.

Oh, so you mean like big brother is watching! Oops, I mean big sister! :D

Went out twice today for a total of 33 miles. I got my 15 minutes of fame on the mileage leaderboard!

Went to go down this dirt road I like to ride along the bike trail and got cut off by the hundreds of goats being moved to a new area to clear!

Got a $5 red shark sticker in Hawaii for the GTS . . . but it NEEDED some $140 red TFL Bang Bumpers to complete the look!

Interesting Reddit post here showing an email thread with the CSPC. Seems I was not too far off saying FM really needs to concentrate some efforts on safety improvements.

@loaffette How about FLOAT FEET? An anogram of your forum name . . . also appropriate to the way you've embraced your board! :)

@s-leon said in Onewheel Neighbors:

the most active rider here in this county

country!

@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!

So I went over to TFL (it's like 6 blocks from my house) and saw them recording a video with a new GTS. Jeff finished up the video and personally helped me pick out some new sidekicks so I can put my GTS into "in cognito" mode right away.

Turns out, it wasn't his GTS, but a customer's and I think they were putting new rails on it. He has the lowest order number he's heard of, yet his hasn't shipped yet! I ordered Saturday night and mine shipped today. He said there's a guy in Illinois that got his already. I told him he should have ordered using a different name! LOL

I mentioned this forum, maybe we'll get a new member. ;)

Nobody's gonna know . . .

Headlights off, fog lights on!

Got tread?

So I hopped on my board yesterday for my birthday ride and my tire was dead flat. Must've run over something the day before. This was the OEM performance tire and it had just over 1800 miles on it. Still some wear left, as I ride mostly pavement, but was getting a bit angled on the edges.

Coincidentally, TFL came out with a new treaded tire, the ThunderCat, on Friday. So what is one to do when they live 6 blocks from TFL headquarters???

Took it out after the install (also needed a new power cable clip, didn't feel like I broke it, but one more trip to TFL to grab a nice metal one and I was good) and am definitely happy with my purchase.

This tire has some major grip, both on the pavement and in the dirt. I'm a 90% pavement rider, but also an ABC rider, so the hold on the carves is confidence inspiring and the transitions are buttery smooth. The tire is louder than the performance tire, but I kind of like being able to tell how fast I'm going just by the sound. It may quiet down as the tire wears, but it's not too loud as to be annoying.

It does feel a lot like the GOAT I have on my GT with how well it holds a carve and the dirt/gravel confidence. I actually took it through some loose gravel today and was able to carve, whereas on the old tire, I wasn't confident enough and would try to ride straight through gravel.

Anyone that likes the Hoosier T2 or the GOAT would be well served with this tire.

@biell Thx for the info! My usual thoughts are that the amount you can sell something for is EXACTLY the amount someone is willing to pay you for it! I'll give the forum a few days and see what happens. At least if someone from here picks it up, I know it won't be some newb that'll go out and crash it and hurt themselves. The only other way I'd feel comfortable selling it is locally on OfferUp or something, where I could meet face to face and take cash.

Got to Hawaii and this was waiting for me:

After some REAL pain trying to get the tire off, it turned into this!

Adding in some wildlife (gotta look hard!) . . .

Took it for a ride today. Besides almost being run over by a huge left turning pickup that I THOUGHT saw me, it was pretty nice. A bit more squirrely than the XR and push back somewhere just over 16 (gotta get used to that), but definitely a capable board. I've never felt pushback on my XR and can sometimes top out at 19 mph, but the Pint X pushback can definitely be felt. Overall though, this should keep me floating until I get home and unbox my GT that arrived this morning back home, LOL.

Just got a shipping email for all my bundle parts for my GT! Even more interesting is that the shipping status for my order shows the GT is "Preparing for shipping" . . . looks like it should be shipped on Monday. I'm about 90 miles from Future Motion, so I expect it to arrive on Tuesday, woohoo!!!

Coincidentally, I ordered a Pint X last week for my vacation home and that's arriving there on Tuesday as well (although I won't be there until March 7). Gonna be floating on brand new and different boards soon!

So I have a local offer for $800. If someone on this forum wants to match that, I'd rather sell it here. I'll give it the weekend, so no rush.
Can't say how much I appreciate this forum ... Thanks @lia and everyone!