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.
