Posts made by blkwalnutgrwr

In a pleasing turnaround for me '@floatfanatics' has joined the V1 Daystreak -- below me. For all my 5000 mile daystreak '@floatfanatics' had been above me on the Leaderboard, so for me this is a welcome change.

An active day on the leaderboards, today. Dropping off the V1 Daystreak were 'Rodneycat' and 'ridersblock', making room for me -- 'S.Leon NE Ohio', and 'Wurman'. 'The1Moose' has been continuing his ascension up the XR mileage Leaderboard, passing by 'OnTheOne' recently, and coming up on 'Blue(^^)'. Big changes on the Pint mileage Leaderboard -- maybe someone could chime in here with an analysis -- I do not have a Pint and so have not watched closely. 'OneWheelJefe' is tied for eighth place at the moment with 'therealmatatat' on the Plus mileage Leaderboard. Likely from Arizona, judging from the rattlesnake icon and saguaro cactus icon by his handle, 'OneWheelJefe' holds two places on two separate Onewheels on the Plus mileage Leaderboard -- 1st and 8th, with 10577 miles and 6455 miles respectively for a combined total of 17032 miles! WOW!

(Edit: By the way, too, 'mekekgul' from Spain relinked his board, claiming the #2 spot on the V1 mileage Leaderboard. The relinking bumped me and the rest of the V1 riders down one rightful place.)

Two years ago when I first started riding a Onewheel I was wearing my safety gear under my clothes so as to be less noticeable. Robert Allen was surprised -- saying, "I wear mine to protect my clothes."

My personal preference is for hard shell pads for impact and slide. And the plastic of the knee pad for my lead knee has some pretty good gouges from falls on pavement.

@HanahsDax Build it and they will come! Looks like fun!

@stinkyface My thoughts? Already shared: "...personally I am glad I ride a V1 and a Plus."

Thin -- but colorful -- evidence of wildlife.

It's entertaining to see on the Leaderboards riders playing with their handles. For example today on the Plus mileage leaderboard the rider in the #10 spot has the same handle as the one in the #1 spot. Does ONEWHEELJEFE really hold both places, or is someone teasing us? The Pint mileage board has all kinds of interactive messages in handles today -- personally I am glad I ride a V1 and a Plus. And then the new rider on the V1 Daystreak made me smile with 'ridersblock' as a handle. (puts me now at #6 there by the way.) I find geographical areas in the handle are useful for picturing where these riders ride -- mine is clear, Justin from Sarasota is clear, and Johnny Bell from Dallas/Fort Worth DFW is also clear. Others? Who knows?

@kyosya. A Onewheel moving on its own sounds to me like a problem with the grip tape over the sensor. Search YouTube for videos on replacing your grip tape -- or get a new footpad.

Get an app to check your battery cell voltages for balance -- I use the Onewheel Community Edition app, but there are others. (Note: the XR only has 15 cells, while the Plus and V1 have 16, so for the XR one cell of the 16 in the app will read weirdly.) A solution I have read but not really tried for rebalancing the battery cells to get a more accurate percentage reading is to drain your battery to 'Captain Morgan' low battery pushback, turn the Onewheel off and wait a moment, drain it some more and again until it will no longer turn on, then charge it for 24-72 hours -- and hopefully that will correct the issue.

@HanahsDax If you are feeling generous in about a month you might change your mind. Less than 500 miles behind the leader, FranKtheTank may take the OVERALL #1 spot in mileage soon. PASCH has been happily static for a week or more now, liking his pleasing 14,444. Might be exciting if he values his status and wakes up.

Of course, if you were generous it would pull me up a little, too. My wife laughed when she learned that I am currently #7 in the wings of the V1 Daystreak. "How did you get up there so quick? Didn't you just drop off a couple weeks ago? -- Oh!!! I know, there is what... maybe only 20 riders on a V1?" And laughed with me when I kind of sheepishly nodded yes, that might be so.

Personally, I love riding the V1 because it feels so much more alive than the the much smoother Plus (and I assume the XR). While riding the V1 I have to pay much more attention to the feel and the motor sound. One beautiful day recently with the board and myself riding together in great form, I noticed my top speed graced 22.2 mph -- way higher than anything I have done with the Plus. -- Please note, though, I would not even think of riding that fast without extra battery support.

(Edit: Another note -- I also would not think of riding so fast without full safety gear, which for me includes shoulder armor, a hip pad, and even a tailbone pad, as well as a helmet, wrist guards, knee pads, and elbow pads. And I know they work because I have taken falls and have ridden away without even a bruise.)

Far away, zoomed in like an effected photo, a skittish white-tailed deer crossed the trail ahead of my Onewheel.

On the XR Leaderboard for mileage has been an exciting trade-off race between 9th and 10th place. The1Moose traded places with CaptianBuddy a week or two back, taunting by hovering just a few short miles more than the other. After a day or two of that CaptianBuddy retook 9th place, and the race was on! Both riders have been racking up miles like crazy, and just yesterday The1Moose passed by CaptianBuddy who seems to have run out of steam.

In the glitch weekend on the Plus Daystreak Leaderboard somehow RodneyCat was passed by Zama -- how that could happen on a daystreak is a mystery. It is righted now again. On the Pint Daystreak Leaderboard I have not seen Flying Nimbus covering in and out of 5th place at all lately. Also, in other group posts with screenshots, I gleaned that the XR and Pint rankings have at least 20,000 boards linked to each.

In a brief display on the Pint Leaderboard for mileage, in response to Mattsplat who with a stylish sunglasses icon has been climbing quickly up the ranks, a rider ahead of him remodeled his own handle to read StopTheSplat with the same stylish icon. Mercurially, it was only on the board for a few hours.

Curiously, on the V1 mileage Leaderboard Powerwheel5000 went stealth, unlinking his board and lurking behind the scenes. Of course, everyone below moved up one place. Interested myself in who might have been in 12th place I then also unlinked my board and allowed Maksimmmmm to move up to 3rd, and found 'chase' from Canada formerly in 12th, now in 10th. Nothing new there, 'chase' had been in the top ten last year, and has seemingly not ridden a mile since.

Milk snake on a paved trail next to a Onewheel V1.

Another small, slithering snake photo -- with an Original Onewheel!

In a the case of a Leaderboard tie the next place down ceases to exist. This from March 24, 2020.

@HanahsDax Looking back a random screenshots in March with a one day V1 streak I was at #34; with a six day Plus streak I was #29. Not many riders on older boards it seems. Talking with my wife about your plans to ride your V1 more this summer I speculated that you might make the V1 mileage leaderboard, too, to hold three leaderboard spots. She said, "Hmmm... seems to me that we might have that kind of overachiever right here in this house." I smiled.

How about evidence of wildlife -- fresh bear scat or maybe mountain lion spoor comes to mind.
We have here woodpecker work.

@HanahsDax While you hold #1 on the XR and V1 daystreaks, today I hold #9 on both V1 and Plus daystreaks.

A tie with photo evidence for ninth place in XR mileage on May 9, 2020!

The porcupine with Onewheel is the most impressive photo here, although a skunk with a Onewheel would come a close second. A large barred owl flew, perched, and looked me square in the eye on my ride this morning, but I was too in awe to think about capturing a photo. So instead, here is some wild blue phlox by trailside.

Wild trail Geranium and a V1 with a new Hoosier 5.5 treaded tire.