@HanahsDax Haha, thanks! I love my Pint and I’ve always admired the dedication of the people on the leaderboards, so it feels really cool to join the group.

Pint isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I don’t have any kind of attitude - so I just keep on waving to little kids and old ladies wherever I ride, and just basically try to have a happy time whether I’m in the city, on country highways or forest trails. Float life. 🤙

Had another surge this week. They’re just diabolical! Tail down, then nose down, then a relatively light tumble. 🙁

One evening at dusk I was riding here. Bent the knees slightly before going onto the “new asphalt” in case there was a little raised edge or something. But when I got there, all hell broke loose. I stayed in it and luckily the board was still there under my feet when the shaking and bucking stopped. I came back a couple days later to take a look in the daylight and…

“Vägskada” means “damaged road”. It wasn’t just bumpy - there was this really big 🕳! 🤣

@Lia “bentleyja” was very prominent in mentions of Premier League football players’ cars in posts written in Croatian. Totes a clue? 🤣

@HanahsDax - I’m close enough to the leaderboard now that I hope to make a quick Hello World at some point soon, so that extra entry at no. 1 has me recalIbrating slightly. 🙄 I don’t sweat the micro-glitches, though. Sometimes that’s all it is - just a glitch.

@blkwalnutgrwr - I’d like to imagine that some random furry character without a smart phone has been killing it, and then someone be like “You go how far every day?!?” and they get them connected to the app, and then blammo.

But prolly not. 🤣

@blkwalnutgrwr - It’s a free leaderboard and all that, but it seems a little unsociable to just pop up there at the top without getting to greet everyone else along the way.

I mean, let's not overthink this.

Why not a physical key to turn where the button is now?

Or how about a small hole straight through somewhere, basically just big enough to accommodate a kryptonite-style lock through the board?

I had a surge this morning that sent me backwards onto the asphalt when my Pint went full-speed ahead. I was riding on my new Hoosier wet-weather treaded tire, just logging some kms to get used to it, so I had my upper body pads on, in addition to the wrist guards and helmet that I always have. Lucky thing – tore my coat on the elbow, but the pads did their job. Hopped up and rode another 6km* in a mild state of shock. lol.

I was at 38% battery, and I never felt any surge like that on the stock tire on that much battery (2400 km on that one). OTOH, this new tire is very soft and very energy inefficient compared to the stock slick tire. May well be that I won't be able to ride it like the old tire due to the additional drag all the time. I'm 85 kilos and run with it at around 22 psi, so far.

Headwind; soft tire, cold temperatures, low battery – it all seems to play into the possibility for drama in the form of surges/nosedives.

*Note: Yep. Range extender, but I've got 1000 km riding with that, too, and it's never been an issue.

There's a 30km forest trail on the island where I live in Sweden, and it just serves up one surprise after another. Sometimes it's a great sunset, like in the picture. Other times, as you're silently floating over pine needles, you can experience nature -- like the time I rode alongside 5 deer that were running through the forest by the trail. Or that time my buddy just about got t-boned by a buck that was crossing the trail at a full run. OK, never floated with wolves. That was clickbait, but I have floated with a curious red fox!

Anyway, there's no other vehicle that's so quiet, so smooth and so well tolerated by the other people on the trail than my Pint. 13 out of 10 will float again and again.