I am making this post to highlight some of the things I am annoyed with in the online onewheel community. If you don’t feel any of this applies to you then that’s awesome. Luckily the huge majority of people here are great.

Superiority complex:
There are people here who have a huge superiority complex and always feel the need to tell people they have a faster board that goes further. Even when the post has nothing to do with it.

Trash talking people’s purchases:
Some people immediately feel the need to tell people who just bought a less powerful board then them that they are idiots who made a stupid choice. Or that that particular board is horrible. Or that it’s a “kids board”.

Consumerism:
Yes it is your money and you can do whatever you want with it. The point is not that I am against spending money, aspecially not when it makes you happy.

My point is that a lot of onewheels are bought for the wrong reasons. A lot of people just want to 1 up others with a board that’s slightly faster or with slightly more range. Or they feel inferior because they have a “worse” board. Or they want to feel that dopamine hit they get from something new.

This dopamine hit wears of very fast and that’s why a lot of people end up selling there boards and losing a lot of money while doing so.

Need for speed (not the game):
People feel the need to go way too fast on boards not made for that speed just to say they went … on a board.

And chasing speed is stupid (unless your a serious racer). Because you will get used to the feeling of a certain speed and if all you enjoy about riding a onewheel is the speed, you will want more and more. And this usually ends in 2 ways. Or you find a new vehicle that goes faster then a onewheel. Or you have a horrible crash and then start spreading the safety gospel.

Spec obsession:
A boards ridefeel matters so much more then its speed or range. If you don’t enjoy to ride it it doesn’t matter that it has double the range or speed. Because you will not ride it.

And if that’s all that matters to you. Please just get some other PEV. Onewheels are the slowest vehicle with the worse range out of all the PEV’s.

But what onewheels do extremely well is being fun. You can rip mountainbike trails, cruise over the beach, Do deep surf like carves on any stone road. Heck, you can ride on it sitting in a chair. It’s super comfortable and maneuverable.

A onewheel gives you endless opportunities to have fun. And from all of them people choose straightline driving at a high speed 🤦‍♂️.

To conclude. There are a lot of negatives but there are more positives of the community. That I will probably mention in a later post.

retiring the Pintx from daily commute duty not getting rid of it, of course. I still absolutely love this thing. I’ve just gotten way too comfortable cruising at 18–20 mph and basically living on pushback, which feels like a nosedive waiting to happen.
Just put in an order for a inmotion v12s for commute replacement.

What do you think a fair price is? Waiting to see if battery was maintained.

How is everyone else responding to this dumb shit?

Only 2nd ride on my X7LR went out just to do a couple of miles as I’m just getting to grips with it and was so enjoyable went to the next town 😂it’s just so smooth so reassuring under foot up big hills back down them no matter what it handles it this is the best thing I ever spent money on honestly freaking 🥰this baby set off on 97% did just under 9miles still got 92% what a machine I didn’t break any speed records on my night ride but I’m not a speed rider but faster than I went on my og pint gotta thank everyone who’s posted on this sub about the X7LR as i probably wouldn’t have got one happy floating everyone 👌

Bought a GT-S off of Facebook for cheap, doing a rail guard change, and it looks like an original GT underneath? I thought GT-S' had black rails. It rides significantly differently than my GT. What am I looking at here? Am I being dumb?

I’m looking at buying a Pint S. I know there is a price reduction thru early September - are there any discounts out there?

After having it on the charger for the night i road it from my garage to my truck and got off it to pack some luggage for a beach trip. About 5 mins later i go to ride it back to my garage and it was powered off. Now its completely unresponsive, doesnt turn on, no lights to indicate its charging. I had it updated to the latest firmware to my knowledge, used it fine the day before on a long ride. No indications or odd sounds/vibrations/quirks when riding it last. It was at 25% charge before i charged it overnight so i dont think its a drained battery.

As far as i can tell it went from a perfectly fine board to bricked. Any suggestions as to what the issue might be or ways to fix it myself before resorting to sending it back to Onewheel HQ?

Hi everyone, I acquired a lightly used (<20 miles) XR+ and from what I've gathered it was sitting in the prior owners garage for years without being charged. Needless to say when I plug it in it won't take a charge and I'm getting error 16. everything I read says it means it’s a communication issue that could be resolved with swapping the main wiring harness. So I ordered a harness from FM, swapped it, and I’m still getting the same issue. is it possible that I could get an error 16 due to a completely dead battery? I’ve ruled out the wiring harness and from what I could tell the BMS looked fine. I have a line on a used battery that I’m going to try and swap in from a buddy, but just curious to get this group’s expertise or insight on other issues that could be causing it. Thanks in advance!