Posts made by blkwalnutgrwr

Small, unidentified snake on the Western Reserve Greenway Trail.

FrankTheTank is back! With a different V1! Now at #5 on the mileage Leaderboard with 6703 miles (in addition to the 15,000 miles on his first V1)! Welcome back Frank! Sorry to scoop you Lia! I am sure we would have heard it from you tomorrow.

@Kielanders -- A knee pad stuffed in the pants over the hip works just fine.

@Lia -- Holy Toledo!!!

@Lia -- Very effective graphic! It makes the Leaderboard changes easy to see.

A note on the V1 mileage Leaderboard -- "FranKtheTanK" must have recently unlinked his 15,000 mile V1, artificially bumping everyone else up a place. The benefit to me is moving up to #2.

Looking forward to a new perpective! Thank you, Lia. Follow your instincts in following the action. I tried to post often enough to stay afloat on the first page of 'recent'. A hearty welcome to a new voice, and new ideas!

Will someone else take over here; without a phone I can no longer see the Leaderboards (nor connect for a daystreak).

@Haydenator -- In winter in Northeast Ohio while Onewheeling I wear a full face motorcycle helmet to keep my head warm. Any other season I find the helmet is too hot.

Giant spherical fungi; boxy, rectangular parallelepiped Onewheel fender.

@LidPhones -- In a similar vein, it took me months to figure out how to turn the lights off when I first got my Onewheel. Thanks. Never saw the star before. Ha!

@Swinefeaster -- Getting a little wild there.

Luxuriously thick, wild grapevine sinews just off the Onewheel trail.

Anyone else see a star next to their favorite Onewheel on the 'connect to your Onewheel' page in the app recently? Anyone have more than one star? In my app the star was blue earlier today, maybe when the board was connected. Is the star perhaps a Leaderboard indicator? Or is it something different altogether?

@Lia -- Hi Lia, Personally, I like the weight/mass just aft of center. Experimenting, I've been making wooden box fenders that give the battery mass a very stable platform base, and I can ratchet strap them down. But I have even stacked and strapped two EGO batteries precariously on top of each other on the fender and the board still felt fine -- even good, to have them up against the calf of my leg. That said, I am not doing drops, tricks, or hard-core off-road with any of my set-ups. The only time I seem to be able to tolerate the backpack solution is in the cold of winter when I already have bulky overwear on. Oh, and to amend an earlier assertion, I do have one board with which I use a paralleled EGO exclusively; somehow otherwise its voltage sag happens all too easily.

@Lia -- On the Onewheel fender in a fender bag, paralleled into the stock battery, is a CarvePower booster with two high capacity CarvePower batteries. With it on my Plus I can count on twenty-five miles (~42km) or more. Three seasons of the year it is my favorite system. For heavy power draws (like through snow) an EGO battery paralleled in seems better.

Hornets' nest by the trailside.

Inconsistency resolved: The program running the Daystreak Leaderboards simply will not allow the same rider to appear in more than one slot of the five, regardless of the number of days in a streak on a secondary board.

In a bizarre turn of events, here is the rest of the story. So, it's midnight, right? Edging over into Thursday, August 27, 2020. Rural darkness prevails. Coyotes just out of range are yipping and howling; the quarter moon is blood red from the high smoke particulates of the U.S. western fires in the atmosphere. Dew thickly blankets the grass. I mount the Onewheel that I bought at the end of June and start riding up and down a grassy stretch of farm field. Not so much starlight, a little moonlight, and a dim flashlight. Moving along I pull the Leaderboard up on my phone, fumbling a little to see it with my distance glasses. Having unlinked my #1 board I expected it to drop off. And I half-expected and hoped to come back on with this second board either to the #5 slot, or to #4 given all the screenshots above that should put me slightly ahead of 'Iamjoeking'. Fear that I would not show up at all and would have to try to take to task the powers that be crossed my mind. A little focus and I see a #2. Hmmm...? Huh...? Stopping the board I dismount to pull my reading glasses out of the hoodie pocket. And indeed, with the same 62 days as 'Robert 206' but with less mileage, there I am -- jumping from nowhere straight into the #2 slot! Not even missing a day since I bought the board. The only thing I can figure is that the Daystreak Leaderboard will not allow the same name in the five slots more than once.

@Lia -- Hi Lia, You must be bored to look through the whole thread. After midnight tonight when my #1 V1 drops off the Leaderboard, that will tell what the app has for the streak on my other V1. I suspect their number is different than what I have documented here. And you are right, this is a ridiculously thorough documentation, but I am trying to figure out what happened and if the app is being accurate. Stay tuned to hear the rest of the story.

The midnight ride. And HanahsDax don't worry, the V1 Leaderboard is musical chairs.