It finally happened after a couple of months of owning the XR. I was trying to keep up with my cousin on his bike and out of nowhere the nose dropped straight to the pavement. I knew at the time I was hitting top speed for the day's ride. I didn't think, I just reacted by dropping my front foot down and raising my back foot and tucking my knee inward and slightly forward, while keeping my center of gravity over the wheel. I rode it out for about 3 seconds before the gyro kicked back in while I gradually increase pressure to the tail. Now if I was carving at the time the nose dropped, it would have possibly been a different outcome. Moral of the story is....the fangs gave me that fraction of second to let the proper reaction take place. I've ridden vert, snowboarded and I surf, so that dropped angle for riding out was not that bad at all,...I just had to have my COG in the right place, which it apparently was. Be safe and ride w/in your limits.

My cousin nose dived and crack a rib and hurt his shoulder. It took him 6 weeks before he got back on it. But before that he purchased some motocross protection. He wears this vest over under his clothes. I haven't bailed hard yet and I like think I can attribute this to my skateboard, snowboard and surfing experience...however I know that its not "if" you ever slam, its "when".
Here's what my cousin purchased. This gear has spine, chest and should protection. You'd look like a NATO storm trooper, but then again some of us are too old to even care what we look like, as long as we're having fun and can still take care of business when it comes to family and work.

https://www.amazon.com/Fox-Racing-Raptor-Vest-Light-Grey-S/dp/B0747WWQYF/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1550511377&sr=8-14&keywords=Fox+motocross+chest+and+shoulder

After a lot of research, I went with the Cobra pad. It made a big difference for me when it came to carving control and foot fatigue.

That's a really good deal for somebody.

You can definitely here the motor ramp up a little more when you switch from from mission to delirium when you're inside where it's quiet, which more likely means a faster drain on your battery. I switch to delirium when I go off road.

@McFly

If you do decide to hang in there with it, just take it slow and travel in small to large "S" patterns. It forces you to slow down. To tell you the truth, I hardly ever go straight unless I'm starting from a complete stop.

@McFly That almost looks like my arm looked like after I partially tore my pectoral major. Maybe not that much bruising though.

@thehoff

What's silly is I broke my ankle snowboarding at Steamboat. Four of us crowed on one of the smaller lifts (I was the only one boarding, the rest of them were skiing and I had been riding lifts behind or in front of them for the entire trip because I don't particularly like skis all over my board). When we got off at the top it was a hog rush and my brothers skis went over my board and I lost my balance (unbinded back foot), took a few steps to recover, fell, and the board's momentum turned my ankle...pop!. It was the last day, but still. It hasn't even been a year yet, and I've been carving with the one wheel for over a month now. It is as you eluded to, a nice substitute, when you live in "snowless-mountainless" region.

@tomfoolery Yea, I should have just started another thread.

This is pretty good deal on an XR listed on craigslist for barely being used plus all the accessories.
https://houston.craigslist.org/mcy/d/houston-onewheel-xr-accessories/6799447495.html

If you live close to this area, and in the market, it might be worth a drive to pick it up. BTW it's not mine...I just spotted it.