u/hypnomatic

For what it's worth, i think there's an upper bound on what we can expect for battery pricing - i cannot imagine it being more expensive than their flat rate "shipping + labor + parts" battery replacement service on https://onewheel.com/pages/service, which I think is a full-box replacement already.

(i.e. $600 for GT, $500 for XR and Pint X, $300 for Pint, nothing for GT-S yet)

Gotcha! Figured as much, but wanted to confirm - I had weird sporadic fold issues for weeks before realizing my pedal was rotating into the way.

The fold is so temperamental, my gut feeling is still that something else is the root cause, and the hook connection's just where it's most evident. I don't have a particular suggestion, but to braindump in case any of it's helpful:

• What tire pressure are you currently running, and has it changed since 5mo ago?
  • The frame sometimes sits on the rear tire when folded, especially when fenderless (at ground-to-wheel and wheel-to-frame contact points)
  • Consequently a lower rear tire PSI might cause the entire frame to sit a bit lower when folded. The front tire might make contact with the ground before the hook does the frame in that case I think!
• If not that - something must be supporting the weight before the hook does - being able to track that down might help narrow the suspects!

To rule out a basic thing that's tripped me a LOT before I figured it out - is the front wheel sitting on the drive side pedal? (i.e. does it still happen if you fold with the pedal completely out of contact?)

worry not! this particular set look like the new official parts that come standard on the P/T Lines, but are available from Brompton individually too.

I'm not crazy about how the EUC and Onewheel worlds landed on "cutout" and "nosedive" (respectively) to describe these crashes, since I think both names kind of hide the cause and how riders can avoid them*.

Cutouts

If you're leaning forward and your weight is ahead of the axle, you are falling forward. The only thing keeping you upright is the wheel's acceleration, which applies torque back against the axle and pushes back against your weight. The harder you lean forward, the harder the wheel has to accelerate to balance you.

If you lean forward with more force than the motor can push back with (i.e. too hard/fast, like at top speed), you can overpower the motor and have what most folks call a "cutout". The motor is usually still spinning during a cutout - it just can't keep up with you.

Why not slowdown?

To keep you upright, your wheel must always be able to accelerate, regardless of other circumstances - if it can't then nothing would push back against your weight and you'd fall forward. Riding faster is just a fun side effect!

The wheel can try to warn you that you're approaching its limits with an alarm or tiltback (pushback in Onewheel parlance), but that's it - slowing down requires not accelerating forward, and there's nothing else it can do to prevent you from falling forward if your weight is ahead of the axle.

\disclaimer: Technically cutouts/nosedives describe a broader category of crash, which also includes rare mechanical failures (i.e. the wheel turns off while riding). Usually, people are talking about crashes from overpowering the motor - especially if it happened at top speed.*

Heya! Super duper cool service y’all’re offering, have had it in the back of my mind the past few times for a few v2 ESC’s I’ve got kicking around.

There’s one question I’ve been wondering about and wanted to ask: do these upgrades (either for the remote and the ESC) involve any type of physical modifications that’d affect the existing level of water resistance? (ie peeling away conformal coating to access something on the ESC board itself, etc).

Totally understand if physical access is needed just like the batteries, but was curious nonetheless: thanks again either way!

Something up the alley of:

“The OneWheel community’s confidence in Future Motion has been shaken by the company’s guarded handling and limited public response to reports that GT boards are dangerously remaining engaged without a rider (‘ghosting’).

What is your plan to ensure the safety of your riders (and those around them), and to re-earn the community’s trust in Future Motion?”

Just about sums up the feelings that are top of mind for me. (The discussion around RTR stuff regarding the battery’s also important, but out of my depth to meaningfully comment on)

Just to share another datapoint: I put in a Pint X order last week, and FedEx had the board in their possession later that same day.

I've personally used the "seeking new challenges" language both when talking to potential employers and when resigning, and think it's one of the better ways to refer to a job hunt IMO. I feel like it's where the industry's landed on a polite way to say "I want a new job, but don't want to say something negative about my old job" to everyone involved.

I personally like "seeking new challenges" since it allows you to gush about how great your current job is in one breath, then about how excited you are about $NEW_COMPANY_NAME in the next. It's also inoffensive to the old job when you resign, in an "it's not you, it's me" sort of way.

I don't think this is a chart announcing a crackdown on PEVs, but rather a chart expressing that EBikes and EScooters now are actually permitted.

For as long as I've been riding in NYC, I don't think any PEV has ever been considered "street legal" - not even the classic ebikes used by almost every delivery driver or courier. My loose understanding is that all motorized vehicles are "banned" unless they fit into one of several well-defined categories (those describing cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc.) that have until recently never covered PEVs.

Recently EBikes and EScooters have been hitting mainstream appeal, and some pretty big players like CitiBike are backing them and have driven some actual legislation changes.

Since the spirit of all the recent changes in this space has been positive / trending toward legitimization, I personally don't anticipate a "ban" against the still-unpermitted PEVs like Eboards, or any change in enforcement whatsoever.

I haven’t used ExternalDNS much (personally lean toward Terraform for DNS out of habit) so I can’t speak to that side of the config, but as far as Route53 goes I believe the Set Identifier for routing-based records is an “identifies a record within the set” type of value rather than an “identifies the whole set” type of value.

I believe that every record with the same zone + name + routing policy needs a distinct Set Identifier, so my intuition is that the first record with SetIdentifier = Failover succeeded while the second failed since a record with SetIdentifier = Failover already existed.

Gotcha! I had a feeling it would be too useless and impractically expensive for any companies to invest resources in, but had to ask so I could rule it out and stop searching.

I actually have Caldigit's new Element hub on order! Excitement for the new TBT4 hubs, and building a setup around 'em is part of what sent me down the rabbithole of trying to get things well integrated with my desktop this time around. I appreciate the details; sounds like my best move'll be to stick with swapping between cables at the hub's upstream port for the near term, and perhaps demote the Element to a Desktop-Repeater type role if/when I get an even shinier USB4/TBT4 hub down the road. Thanks again!

The Rev cuts acceleration when the hand-brake is being pulled, so definitely sounds to me like it thinks that handle's held down one way or another.

For the low-hanging fruit, make sure the handbrake is allllll the way forward and not stuck partially closed. If that's not it then I'm not familiar enough with the Rev to say for sure where to go next, beyond that whatever tech is used to determine the brake lever's position may be damaged or dislodged or something like that.

Are you sure your message got through to them? They’ve typically responded same-day to me, even within the past week when I asked for a new torque wrench.

Regardless, this is a very easy thing to fix, and only typically comes up if you swap hardware or after an update. You can find it on page 16 of the manual (which is also on their site), but the general idea is:

Hold A+B on the remote, find “Settings” and hit A, find “Motor” and hit A, find “Sync Motors” and hit A.

They should both spin in the same direction now, but you need to check that they're spinning in the correct direction. If they aren't, go back to that “Motor” submenu and find/hit A on “Flip Motors” to swap the direction they are spinning. Check again and things should be synced up and spinning the right direction now.

Awesome, thanks for the advice! Browsing their site and it seems to be a wonderland of customization, all of which is right up my alley; particularly the freestanding stuff you mentioned.

Very nice, dig the really effective space usage and the infinity-reflection looking effect the desktop's got!

If you don't mind me asking, what's the frame you've built everything on? I've been brainstorming for a workstation area recently, but've had trouble finding a frame that's a good middle ground between a workable space and vertical storage; your setup seems to really nail that balance though!

Damn, this is a great idea and you executed it super well!

I’ve had in the back of my mind a few similar projects where I wanted to try using the unreadable ebbs and flows of big twitch chats for interactive minigames or other neat effects, so it’s awesome to see a someone who’s many steps ahead of me with an even cooler idea and implementation around that same premise; a searchable heatmap shown against vod timelines is such a clean and genuinely useful way of taming and representing that data!

Could you share a pic of the wheel off the hangar, with all the elements you have installed visible (the outer bearing, inner bearing, larger washer, etc)? It looks like you’ve got something extra in there, but it’s not clear what assembled.

Also if you added your own outer bearing, make sure it’s not a built-in bearing with the integrated spacer; the v3 trucks don’t have room for those.

Feel like I see stories like this regularly in all sorts of hobbies, and ESK8's been no exception; particularly with people stepping up in Boosted's absence lately. The flow almost always goes:

• Someone passionate about the hobby comes up with a cool product or service, and gets good enough at it they believe they can share it with others. They open it up and may even start charging a fee, but try to keep it fair because they want to contribute to the community. They don't think of themselves as a company, just a hobbiest helping other enthusiasts out.
• Because they don't think of themselves as a company, timelines can slip, commitments fall through, and communication slow. It all takes a back seat to "real life", or maybe they accepted customers faster than they could serve them.
• Customers get upset as timelines slip, commitments fall through, and communication falls off.
• Hobbiest gets upset that the customer's upset. They're not a business, so the customer should be grateful they're helping at all.
• Dirty laundry gets aired, everyone ends up unhappy, hobbiest closes up shop altogether.

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My anecdotal take:

IMO the moment you start transacting money for products or services, you have to mentally frame all of that work as being part of a business. Or, if nothing else, charge a price that makes dealing with customer's complaints "worth it" to you, even if you were to hate them and hate the hobby.

Because no matter how many disclaimers you try to add to temper customer expectations, slipping deadlines and unresponsive/rude communications would make anyone frustrated, whether from a business or a person. And if you think even the littlest bit that you're doing a favor for your customer, the situation'll eat away at your sanity.

I don't think I've seen a single popular "hobbiest offering service or products for the community out of the goodness of their heart" last more than a few weeks before burning out in both their and their customers' frustration.

Still stunned they made it this far, genuinely a wild product. Great review and great photos, definitely the best and fullest picture of these trucks I've seen yet!

I've got a few long-term curiosities:

• I've reluctantly become a bit apprehensive about battery-sensitive hardware with small batteries, so I'm super curious to see longer-term if any ugly quirks or "battery safety cutoff" type thresholds rear their head when under combinations of low SoC / high cycle count / cold temperature / high draw.
• Also wondering how all that technology in the pivot cup wears over time, if it is sensitive to grime getting in there, and if that custom urethane cup itself is eventually user-swappable.

Those aside, bonkers to see that they're actually shipping finally. Easy bi-directional riding is a super cool feature that we don't see often enough (or really ever the way implemented here). Also really not a fan of the auto-braking feature, now matter how well-intentioned; anything that breaks the promised relationship between the throttle and the board's behavior is a big, jarring UX no-no in my books.

Overall still seems to be a well-polished product, and they get oodles of respect from me for breaking the mold and bringing so many new ideas to the table!

Honestly, all of the players new to DnD are picking things up quickly and really well!

The whole "spider incident" was entertaining and IMO is the exact type of experience that really helps newer players find their role-playing footing and voice. It's really tough to nail the balance between including your personality/humor and performing a purely practical, bone-dry RP, and the only real way to find that balance and grow is just going in, pushing limits, and having fun with it. Especially with a DM as capable as Arcadum pulling the strings, I am sure he is prepared to keep the ship on the right course no matter how goofy the decisions.

I also know there's lot of strong opinions in the DnD world about playstyles in general, however strings of bad decisions with just barely enough good decisions sprinkled in to keep everyone alive tend to be the most entertaining campaigns to me!

Try spinning your wheels at like 1/4 speed and watch the edges to see if they seem to wobble back and forth a bit. My guess is the wheels aren't flush on the pulleys, so the part of the wheel that's dipping inward is what's brushing up against the motor cap; if that's the case pressing the wheels onto the pulleys a bit more and trying to get a more even fit may get you spinning.

Well now, this is might be one of the reviews I most eagerly anticipate! I was entirely convinced that the JayKay trucks would never get past the "kickstarter doomed in implementation" stage all those years ago, so seeing a fairly well refined and seemingly shippable product is wild to me.

Interested to see how they hold up! If implemented well JayKay could both fill a pretty cool niche, and if nothing else be a baller tech showcase.

While chunking's a natural part of wheels wearing, it happening one day in is definitely not typical. I'd suggest you drop Loaded/Orangatang a line with the details, a pic or two, and your contact info; they'd probably consider it a defect and send you a replacement wheel.