Actually, this particular snowstorm a year ago did not seem so bad.
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RE: Worst weather you've ever rode inposted in General Discussion
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RE: In The Wild, Photo Share (If Possible To Capture).... Keep Your OneWheel In The Shot If You Can.posted in General Discussion
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:
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The Art of Onewheelposted in Wall of Stoke
Out of the blue a package arrived today -- Onewheel Artwork compilation by HanahsDax! Thank you! Mood levitating!
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RE: Onewheel Neighborsposted in General Discussion
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.posted in General Discussion
First snake of the season today here in Northeast Ohio:
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RE: Environmentsposted in Safety
Here is part of the story: For years this stretch has been a hang-up in the forty-four mile long Western Reserve Greenway Trail -- my favorite trail on which to Onewheel. A detour around this property has been a mile and a half on three different roads -- two quiet and one busier. Apparently protracted negotiation or litigation or something has been successful. It looks to me like, with gravel base down, this trail stretch will be paved sometime this week. Now soon, except for crossing roads, NONE of the forty-four miles of paved Greenway trail has to share with cars and trucks.
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RE: Onewheel Neighborsposted in General Discussion
My Onewheel neighbor young man Matthew was out this evening on his Onewheel, walking his dog Graham on the Greenway, and stopped to talk for a few minutes. While we were talking Matthew was balancing on his Plus, monitoring his dog, and watching for Greenway traffic; I commented on the adeptness of his ankles. He smiled and said low tire pressure with the stock Vega helps for the low speed maneuvering. He also waxed enthusiastic about riding his Plus everywhere on his family's property: Visiting his parent's house, taking big, full trash cans out to collection, going to do this job or that -- the Onewheel is so versatile for everything! With his enthusiasm spilling over, I invited him to look here at the OWForum.
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RE: LEDsposted in Safety
@cheppy44 -- Well, I received the 14x64 dot LED banner, and I like it quite a bit -- sharp and clear. Using their text feature only eight characters at a time fit across the stretch -- so I adapted my messages. There is a possibility of creating the letter characters in graffiti mode so that twelve characters might fit, but that will take playing with it. Largely I will be using the red-flashing banner on my back for added visibility and safety as I ride my electric bicycle on rural roads with rural traffic to the Greenway to then ride my Onewheel. My battery powered Zippo hand-warmer works great for hours as the USB powerpack -- the bulkier 150 watt EGO power station on USB works for a minute or two then shuts off, maybe because the LED banner does not continually draw enough power to keep it on. Photos of the banner in action are yet to come.
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RE: Watching Action on the Leaderboardsposted in Wall of Stoke
Ouch! I fell off the Leaderboard -- due to inactivity on my V1. The Hoosier 5.5 treaded tire has been flat for a few months, worn through the threads. Good thing I have a fresh motor with a newer Hoosier 5.5 on the way. I should reinstate on the Leaderboard soon. In the meantime it is nice to see who had been hidden at #11.
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What do people in your life think about your Onewheel(s)?posted in General Discussion
Ruth Anne used to call my Onewheel, "The Other Woman." But then watching my obsession she had a revelation, "Oh my!" with a look of genuine surprise and amusement on her face, "I am the other woman."
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RE: Whys of Fallsposted in Safety
Bloody knuckles, fresh scrapes on the hard plastic of my armor, and fresh tears on my near-new-used jacket -- from a fall today. Then I got up, Onewheeled about three miles back to the bike, and rode the ebike home to a long, hot bath.
Why the fall? Hmmm... The app says my top speed was 26.7 mph -- I do not believe it. Maybe when the nose went down and I was sliding on the made-to-slide bumper the wheel spun to register that speed. Hitting the pavement my body did not slide much -- shoulder slam, roll onto my back armor, and stop -- nothing like the interminably long slide I took at 25mph. I think I was traveling at 16-18 mph. An hour earlier with a different EGO battery my top was 20 mph. It is possible I might have been accelerating up a slight incline on a bridge over a forest creek. Indeed, the Onewheel itself came close to tumbling down off the bridge into the murky water.
Faulty sensor? I have lately been getting the one-side-only sensor notification. I should check the plug for a solid connection. Actually, I will probably swap out the sensor footpad for the one from the OneDanXR.
The other odd thing is that right at the moment of my fall , my phone went dead. It's an old phone, cast-off from Ruth Anne, and it's replacement battery has not been holding a charge very well. It had been at a seemingly healthy 81% an hour before. So, I do not know if blaming the phone flies, but I don't like that it cut out at the very moment of the fall. An in-hand solution: My Zippo hand warmers have a phone charging port -- kind of like a spare phone battery, I can leave it on charge as I Onewheel along the trail.
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RE: U.S. CPSC Statement on the danger of OWsposted in General Discussion
Hi Onewheelers! My unflattering story about this is under the spoiler:
Hi Onewheelers! My unflattering story: One of Ruth Anne’s brothers, a commercial airline pilot, forwarded to Ruth Anne the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s news release recommending, among other things, the immediate abandonment of Onewheel riding. That that pertinent news would slip past her notice had been my hope. Ruth Anne’s nephew, adult son of the airline pilot brother who alerted Ruth Anne, also has owned or had owned and ridden a Onewheel Plus — happily, I think. Anyway, Ruth Anne then yesterday wrote a very long, pointed, frustrated email letter to ALL immediate family members about my misguided dedication. Poking, too, about the insanity of my lately renewed interest in motorcycles.An interesting fact that she did not include with her letter to all family is that after my knocked-out concussion from a Onewheel fall last December Ruth Anne had pressed me to give up Onewheel riding for my health and well-being. At that time I figured fair is fair, so I gently proposed that for her health and well-being, as obese as she currently is, that she, over time and measurably, lose weight in return. We have the method — a whole food, plant-based diet that I have been following for more than four years and which allowed me to lose thirty pounds and keep it off — that, and activities like dancing, walking, and riding bicycles! Ruth Anne absolutely and steadfastly refused, saying more than once that she would rather die than change her eating habits. “Ruth Anne!” I told her, “It’s not just the death; it’s the suffering and disability that goes along with it!”
So, with the snow the past two days I have not ridden. In past years, though, I have Onewheeled through impressively, truly deep snow when the only tracks on the Greenway were from unseen cross-country skiers and a few wild animals. Of those seasons I have posted photos here, and on the Cleveland Onewheel Riders Facebook page, videos, too.
In my experienced opinion, with riding an average of more than sixteen miles each day of all seasons for more than four years running on Onewheels (25,410 Onewheel miles logged divided by 1570 possible days), the Consumer Product Safety Commission assumption is that these “ejections” happen randomly is flat-out incorrect.
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RE: Hacks & Oddsposted in Mods & DIY
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.
