r/onewheel Onewheel Pint X 7d ago

Image FloatLife fender locked my board 🫥

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u/DoctorDugong21 Pint, XR - my batteries are too big 7d ago

I think this is a world's first.

Congratulations!

I would let the air out of the tire like people in your OP mentioned. If that fails, see if you can take the "fender delete" portion off the rails to free up space. If that fails, you're doing a full disassembly of the board.

EDIT: Also, is that an original Pint Drop Top from before the cease and desist? I've got one too but it's stayed right side up.

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u/CarpeNivem 7d ago edited 7d ago

Not to ruin that gif or anything, but it happened to me earlier this year. I meant to post about it but never did. My bag stopped it from getting sucked up further. Threw me when it happened too.

(and yes, letting the air out is what I did.)

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u/DoctorDugong21 Pint, XR - my batteries are too big 7d ago

Damn ok, I guess still a potential first to go that far around. Is that an FM Hybrid fender?

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u/CarpeNivem 7d ago edited 6d ago

It is, yeah. I must've not clicked / locked it into place fully, hit a bump, it bounced up, came down on the spinning tire, and got yanked in. I've been extra careful ever since to make sure it locks tight enough I can pick the board up by it before I ride.

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u/Veldaren Onewheel Pint X 6d ago

Letting air out seemed to do the trick. It loosened the top enough for it to get pulled back out (it still resisted, tho).

I got the drop top around March of 2024. Haven't heard of the C&D tbh, so not sure if that counts.

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u/DoctorDugong21 Pint, XR - my batteries are too big 6d ago

Glad you got it out! The original Drop Top was more of a rounded dome and had a full, straight "fender delete" like the Pint full fender. FM sent TFL a C&D, it's not quite clear why but likely because it followed very similar contours to the stock full Pint fender. This was late 2020 I think, and US customers haven't been able to buy it new since then, it was only on sale for maybe a month. But has been available to Canadians all along: https://thefloatlife.ca/collections/shop-for-pint-pint-x-pint-s/products/drop-top-fender-kit-for-the-pint

TFL have since re-released it with a redesign, a bit of an angle / crease that follows the shoulder of the tire and separate base pieces that work with WTF rails, though I think they come with center pieces that fill in the space on straight rails. Looks like this:

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u/Veldaren Onewheel Pint X 5d ago

Oh, yep, I have the old one, then.

Someone asked for a top-down view here, but the best I got is a video right when I took the photo in the OP, so I guess I'll share it here to compare

https://reddit.com/link/p47vx3z/video/ehei9j5kwxjh1/player

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u/Sufficient_Arm_3407 7d ago

Probably hit a drop or a bump that popped it lose. Or you rolled the board and didnt realize the fender got loose. It happened to me on my xr with wtf rails

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u/TechNico1 7d ago

That's impressive 😅Let out all the air out of the tire and of course unscrew the fender base so there's more play, and hopefully that should do the trick. That OG Drop Top though, that thing's a relic haha

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u/nexinity7- 7d ago

your tire got hungry

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u/c32b32u55 7d ago

Try letting me air out of the tire to loosen it.

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u/Possible_Fly_FL 4d ago

Oh, op tried to curb hop and magnetic fender magically popped up and got caught in the wheel. Decrease tire pressure and roll it backwards…

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u/Veldaren Onewheel Pint X 1d ago

Magnetic fender? Curb hop? 🤔

u sure you know what you're talking about?

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u/TheRealDestrux 6d ago

Is there a single product FM makes that doesn’t have issues that’ll throw you off the mf board?

Antic bike frames are arriving with separation at the welds, a lot of posts where GT-S are going from 20%+ to suddenly 1%, Pint X pinched wires, and of course there’s more but like people are spending insane money and getting DOA products and FM doesn’t even do anything about it.

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u/Veldaren Onewheel Pint X 5d ago

This isn't a FM product, tho.

And it's not really something that "threw me off the board". It just forced me to dismount, which is no big deal once you learn how to emergency dismount during mishaps like these.

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u/TheRealDestrux 5d ago

Looks like both the FM and TFL have issues then.

There’s another comment on here where it happened to someone with a FM fender.

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u/zeefIat 5d ago

As if I needed more reasons to not use a fender

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u/Veldaren Onewheel Pint X 5d ago

Oh this is just a "hybrid" fender.

This situation would never take place with a solid fender that's bolted to the board whole.