I have had this exact same thing happen to me. Gently accelerating at 7.5 mph, board fully disengages with no warning whatsoever. My feet were extremely solidly planted, there were no sensor warnings in the app (and it did notify me of the crash), and there was nothing but smooth pavement in my way. As someone who has made it to 26.4mph on a original OW I can guarantee this was not user error.

I'm now going on around a month of combined time that FM has had my + in for repairs, and as far as I know they still don't have any idea why this is happening. Two separate trips back to them. This time they have had my + for 2.5 weeks and aren't even responding to my emails about it. I used to be a huge fan of FM and OW, but this has completely soured my experience. I just want my money back.

100% agree.

Yeahhhh... and they are doing it in a really stupid way. I got mine yesterday and gave it a try. I now see what other people are talking about with the pushback profiling. The faster you go the more it leans you back, which makes you increasingly unstable at higher speeds because you're compensating for a more awkward stance. It also means you can't slow down as quickly since the tail of the board is closer to the ground.

I tried a couple times to get above 23, and every time I got crazy speed wobbles due to the super awkward body position.

@timvdp No worries about that! You're doing what's smart for you. I'm just trying to explain how it can be done with some degree of safety. I think there's a lot of misconceptions in here about how exactly people are getting these high speeds...

@timvdp See my reply about getting to high speeds. You don't actually need to "push through" the pushback. All top speeds people are getting with Onewheels are going downhill, where all you do is keep the board level and you'll speed up.

@dcosmos I would shoot a video showing me going 25+ on my V1 but I sold it. Perhaps I can borrow one from someone in the PDX area? I have screenshots of the app, but I know those could potentially be doctored. When I get my plus on Friday I plan on seeing how fast I can get it going.

There's really no trick to it, just find a mild hill with extremely smooth pavement and no cross-traffic concerns. Slowly ease your way up to speed going downhill. Once you get past about 18 you have to start putting more focus into balancing since the motor will no longer be able to do 100% of that for you (which is why some people have issues with nosediving at higher speed). When you want to slow down just lean back really slowly and bleed off speed. The reason this works is that while the Onewheel's motor alone is not capable of exceeding something like 18 mph you can use gravity to carry you way past that point and let the Onewheel just help with the balance. The first day I tried that I got up to around 23mph and the second day I got to 26.4mph (which is my top speed). I could probably go higher but I'd need to find a longer stretch of road, and there isn't much point since at the time the leaderboard was rejecting speeds that high (FM said they are working on fixing this).

No conspiracy. Try it yourself at your own risk.

#771X shipped!

@gbones2692 said in A thought: post your OW+ shipping notifications w/ first two digits of order #?:

7430's on FB

Don't think so. I see what you're talking about and I think he's just excited he's getting close.

Just got an email about my board ship date. Looks like they will ship approx 325 boards in the next two weeks. That basically means they are going to continue shipping ~40 boards each day they ship, and not shipping one day each week. They said they are ramping up, but that doesn't particularly sound like it.

@T-CAT just sold mine today! I'm already itching!