Actually, this particular snowstorm a year ago did not seem so bad.
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S. Leon
@S. Leon
Blkwalnutgrwr in the former forum
formerly S. Leon - NE Ohio on the Leaderboards,
now S. Leon - Lake Erie as my Leaderboard name.
blkwalnutgrwr@gmail.com
Best posts made by S. Leon
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RE: Worst weather you've ever rode in
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RE: In The Wild, Photo Share (If Possible To Capture).... Keep Your OneWheel In The Shot If You Can.
Onewheel Plus yesterday with a palm-sized frog:
One of three tennis-ball-sized wool sower oak wasp galls on the same tree today -- at a bit above eye level, too high to have the Onewheel in the photo:
Onewheel V1 today with an unidentified 18-24" snake: -
The Art of Onewheel
Out of the blue a package arrived today -- Onewheel Artwork compilation by HanahsDax! Thank you! Mood levitating!
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RE: Onewheel Neighbors
Onewheeling the rural road today a black SUV overtook me very slowly, and hesitantly rolled down the window to talk with me. Visiting here in Northeast Ohio from North Carolina, the guy noticed my EGO battery atop of the Onewheel and wanted to know how I hooked it up. Turns out he has EGO tools and a Onewheel Plus. So, we talked by the side of the road as motorcycles and pickup trucks stopped to ask if we were okay. The guy showed me his wife's PintX in the way back of his car. It was a neighborly surprise interaction.
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RE: In The Wild, Photo Share (If Possible To Capture).... Keep Your OneWheel In The Shot If You Can.
First snake of the season today here in Northeast Ohio:
Latest posts made by S. Leon
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RE: Watching Action on the Leaderboards
@hanahsdax -- Daystreak #1's in both the GT and GT-S!!! Congratulations!!! A screenshot of your app would look impressively good!
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RE: Im looking for a replacement tire for a my one wheel pint
@jessejedi -- A cheap alternative to get riding quickly might be tire sealants like Armor-Dilloz or Slime (off-road).
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RE: Watching Action on the Leaderboards
@hanahsdax -- Let the V1 Daystreak slide?
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RE: An Ounce (a few grams) of Prevention
Ha! ...I fell again today -- certainly not on purpose -- No injuries to speak of. Too fast I hit a gnarly root ridge in the pavement on a less familiar section of Greenway, which destabilized the Onewheel ride. At first I thought I could ride it out... but in a foot-wobbly instant it seemed a good chance to fall uncontrolled -- limbs-akimbo. My body's simple, immediate reaction to that sudden realization was to relax, collapse forward, and rhymically roll, rather than fall hard on my face or fall scattered backwards.
Again, it worked! My armor took the brunt of impact and the slide from pavement to gravel. Sum total of injury: Two small, superfluous scrapes on different sides of my leading ankle... that's it... but again the surprise -- that I'm not even sore from the fall! Checked the board, straightened the fender, tightened the batteries, and Onewheeled the seven-and-a-half more miles -- of my twenty today -- back to the electric bicycle.
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RE: In The Wild, Photo Share (If Possible To Capture).... Keep Your OneWheel In The Shot If You Can.
@loaffette -- Help yourself... Personally, my diet is entirely plant-based.
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RE: An Ounce (a few grams) of Prevention
Another fall today -- probably around the 22.5mph top speed I recorded. I think maybe I overdrew the battery, pushing too hard when I knew it would be low on charge.
But... No injuries! Or almost none. I did scrape and bloody the same two knuckles I have scraped in two other major falls, but not as badly as in those, So, the knuckle-covering old knee pad I wear did help some -- but it got pushed too easily out of the way. I will work to correct that.
My reactions as the motor cut out and the nose dipped?
Even before I hit pavement I was vigorously throwing myself onto my back -- twice, now three times, proven to keep me whole. Then I just slid on the hard plastic back scallops of the Fox Titan Pro that I always wear while Onewheeling.The fresh scrapes on my Scabs knee pads are the most visible. The shoulder pad has fresh scrapes, too. No noticeable new scapes on the knee-and-shin-guard I use as hip armor -- but the coat covering it on this unseasonably cool June day has fresh rips. And of course, there are fresh striations on the Fox Titan Pro hard plastic back armor.
I think my trailing foot grazed the ratchet strap ratchet that holds my wooden fender on the Onewheel. Maybe I'll put some foam over that piece of metal -- or else maybe an old knee pad.
Again -- No significant injuries to this hundred-forty pound, seventy-one year old body! I am overjoyed!
Edit: Oh! and I'm up from Onewheel Plus Leaderboard Daystreak number 50 yesterday to number 26 today. And I plan to ride again tomorrow.