@thegreck Huh, that's interesting. Yeah, I could definitely see that. All my gut feel for the relationship between power and weight comes from playing with high powered electric bicycles, but that's a much heavier object with a bigger wheel that's harder to turn, so it takes more power to get that acceleration feeling.

@desperado yeah, I agree. I think it should be an optional setting.

The only way to get a good quick emergency reverse option would be with a higher power motor. 2000W would make it so you could change directions pretty damn fast from pretty high speed.

As I understand it, every 750W or so is equivalent to about 1 horsepower.

@acecannon about 400

@skyman88 I've been trying to figure out that full foot dismount thing for a couple days now. I'm still undecided about whether or not it's my board or me.

Even so, trained maneuvers still probably aren't the type of thing you would want to risk your bodily safety on. I ride in downtown LA, commuting to work, daily. So the OW is more tool than toy to me and I don't have much interest in practicing things that I need to make sure the thing doesn't run into people on wheelchairs or careen into traffic.

@enigmizzle Thanks bud.

@desperado I'm going to be attempting that today, for sure. But still, the unpredictable nature of it is spooky. Especially in downtown LA.

I don't need it getting away from me at a crosswalk and hitting someone on a wheelchair or getting under someone's car.

My thinking is that safety isn't something to be practiced, it has to be built in.

After all, wouldn't this maneuver be a whole lot easier if the only instruction was "push down on the tail until it turns off" ? And it did it EVERY time?

Since the main problem after caked on stuff is dust, I'll bet pledge will work pretty good. Any kind of cleaning oil that globs onto dust should do it.

Haven't tried it yet, but I'm about to now that I've thought about it.

@skyman88 That's interesting. That is closer.

EDIT: Just tried to do as suggested in the video in grass several times. Didn't work. From balancing, get the whole front foot off and bring the tail down -- wheel spins backward really fast for about half a second. Not sure if it's a OW/OW+ difference or just my board.

I'd still prefer to do it from a unidirectional mode, because then you could literally keep both feet on the board and start putting the tail down while moving and come to stop -- and then restart without ever having to take your feet off the board.

@sonny123 It could just be one of the shaping settings... call it... 1-way delirium.. or something. lol

@sonny123 The board definitely knows if the wheel is turning clockwise or counterclockwise.

It could do all the same things it does now when the wheel is turning counterclockwise, including responding to aggressive input on tail side. As soon as the wheel begins turning clockwise, it could shut off whenever it reaches like 2mph.

This would allow it to balance and crawl in both directions and slow down speed up, the only difference would be in the case where the wheel is both turning clockwise AND the input to tail footpad is aggressive, in which case, it would be a forceful signal to disengage the motor.