Sitting on the train on my way to friday night ride

I unsubbed from fortnine after that, he sucks now

But, the modular helmets are fine if ECE22.06 rated. They have steel latches

I mean if chooch doesn't look like a superhero in that clip, and if wrongway doesn't look awesome in this one: https://youtube.com/shorts/ZB6jR4c5kug?si=o4weo4x73Kh6_P3c then EUCs just aren't for you and that's ok

As far as safety, the main thing is that they're about 10x harder to overpower than a onewheel. You can't "nosedive" on modern EUC like a Lynx like you can on a onewheel. That's the main safety concern on self balancing wheels.

In my extensive experience with crashing PEVs, EUCs are my favorite to crash on because I'm already in the ideal crash position. I just slide it out on my knee pads and wrist guards. I've yet to suffer any injury. Onewheels have a sideways stance which makes for broken collarbones.

Newer EUCs also have redundant safety mechanisms. The Sherman L can operate even if the hall sensor fails.

They've also got suspension which makes surprise pot holes a non issue.

I love onewheels but they're definitely less safe

New riders do the "zombie" stance but idk I think it looks good once they learn to relax their arms and bend their legs

here's it today

And here's a clip of me riding my other one

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFD5DFJm/

I don't really care if anyone thinks I look goofy, I look great to my eyes. It feels like flying

Lol! But honestly these things have great braking power, I can stop quite fast

Ugh I typed a lot and Lemmy (or Sync) glitched and lost it.

Anyway, I completely agree.

Futuremotion makes a great product but they're an anti-right-to-repair shitty patent troll company.

Also Floatwheel is awesome and entirely right-to-repair. And they give the middle finger to all patents and are happily operating with crypto. I paid them $2000 for their version of a Onewheel and I'll do it again when the sequel releases in a week.

http://floatwheel.co

edit: it released today

Yeah, he nails it. I listened to the whole thing.

Basically exactly what I said, except for "ghosting" which is a problem where the board will ride without a user on it. Ghosting boards can be a hazard, but not to the rider

I have it. It's ok for learning. I would recommend a v8s though for something that you won't get immediately bored with.

$650 if you use coupon code HAPPYINMOTION

I find that 15mph is a good sweet spot, and the v8s can easily do that for 20 miles.

The e20 tops out at 12.5mph and is hard to turn with.

I don't think it was a bug. It's just that people overpower the wheels and then crash.

Futuremotion added "haptic buzz" to help warn people when they're near overpowering the wheel.

I've met lots of people who just don't understand that the wheel keeps you balanced by driving faster than you're leaning. If you overlean it you crash.

They certainly can. EUCs can too, but it's harder to do because they mostly have way more torque to stay balanced.

Imo, speed wobbles are the biggest danger on both. Speed wobbles are my enemy

I gotta say, I don't think they look bad. I think chooch looks awesome when he rides, check out the video I linked.

Practically speaking I don't usually take my fast wheels. Usually I take my mten5 around with just a helmet and some small kneepads and gloves.

It's stupidly powerful for how tiny it is. Easy to carry by the handle. Easy to trolley. And gets me 20 miles of range.

I ride onewheels and EUCs and everything else. Onewheels are fun. A pintx can take you around town for a decent price.

My main issue with my onewheels has been how annoying they are to carry. My EUCs have trolley handles and can be pushed around in shops.

And if you want to go faster than 18mph you have to look to EUCs. For the price of a onewheel GT-S you can get this https://youtu.be/UsQtRVW3hs4?si=ZujSsjm0d7HFTEFw

Or for the price of a pint-s you can get a T4-pro which will cruise at 35mph, have tons of torque, and easily go over 30 miles.

Also EUCs are safer. I can get into why that is if you want.

Hope you heal up and can get back to riding soon!!

Riding my v11 unicycle one last time before I sell it because I own too many EUCs

It's a great commuter. Relatively waterproof, durable, goes 34mph, 30+ mile range.

I really just ride my mten5 or ex30 or motorcycle 95% of the time though

I haven't heard of anyone crashing due to hardware failure on any EUCs in the past year, so they've gotten pretty reliable.

Personally after a couple thousand miles I've never had a crash that wasn't caused by me running into something stupidly, and I've never had an injury. Just wear kneepads/helmet/wristguards and you'll be fine.

Bell Super Air R is such a good helmet, great choice

I have a similar helmet that I wear when going from 20-30mph from Smith, anything faster and I use my sedici motorcycle helmet

I'm sorry to hear that! So the front locked up and you had a highside crash? That's my greatest fear on my ebike (heybike ranger s) and my motorcycle (suzuki gs500). I hope you heal up and can get back to riding soon, and I'm glad you're still alive and coherent

And that really sucks that Engwe didn't care

Much love, thanks for running this place, it's the only good PEV community outside of reddit

I have to go to "edit" and then "crop" during upload, if you're using Sync for lemmy. Otherwise the image is too big

I love those! Drop through longboards are so comfy, but the maneuverability of a kick tail cruiser is nice too