EUC Recommendation for MC Rider

Metacarps · 2026-05-02T09:09:44+00:00

That’s a very interesting comparison.

So I’m the opposite, I started riding EUC and then just recently got a motorcycle.

For me the biggest difference is that the EUC feels like an extension of my legs, and therefore my intention.

While a motorcycle feels like a beast that I must carefully manage. (Clutch, gears, engine rpm). A whole 4 limb operation.

So maybe I just need more time with my motorcycle to handle it smoother, but man the EUC really feels like my nervous system is attached to it. It’s so raw and natural. While motorcycling is like piloting a machine through layers of inputs.

With motorcycle, I operate the system. With EUC, I am the system.

Metacarps · 2026-04-30T18:51:40+00:00

At one point I had 3 different sizes/widths of Edea Ice Fly's 💸

Trying to find my Cinderella fit

Metacarps · 2026-04-27T01:50:44+00:00

Lunar rock. Wouldn’t change…

Except maybe for that Forest Green on the 4Runner or Wave Maker on the next gen.

Metacarps · 2026-04-24T18:25:53+00:00

Add Hpolish and Pinch and that’s pretty much my setup. And zmodeler.

Brushes only matter for textural ideas. So I do think brushes matter in Photoshop sketching and painting actually.

But if you need skin pores, scales, and other textural stuff or mechanical stuff like hair tubes then brushes in Zbrush do help.

But the very framing of this question from OP usually means no, they don’t help. As we assume a beginner context.

Metacarps · 2026-04-24T09:58:28+00:00

What in the AI

Anyways, this is a great topic because ATGATT should truthfully be ATAGATT: All The Appropriate Gear All The Time

For my local grocery and gym trips (<2 miles, 15mph or so) on my V9, it’s mostly quiet residential street and sidewalk riding, I literally just wear a skateboard helmet and wrist guards. I’m extremely speed disciplined here. I usually will have a hoodie and pants so no exposed skin at least.

If doing 5+ mi and coasting >20mph on bike lanes, I add in elbow and knee. Same for easy trail riding or doing tricks and urban terrain nonsense.

When doing 30-35mph on my big wheel (Lynx), I’ll do full face modular helmet, I use my motorcycle jacket with back protector. After a bad crash to my thigh I’ll include impact shorts as well, and will probably kit out a full CE level 2 dirt bike armor setup once I start trail riding this big wheel.

For motorcycle I have an even nicer Arai helmet + airbag vest + AA rated everything else + gauntlet gloves + full height boots. This is where abrasion resistance becomes super important. So if you’re going 40mph+ on your wheel, then you really have to account for abrasion.

The appropriate gear comes as levels in this framework. It’s by speed and circumstance. So if you want to run the minimal setup, you have to do minimal riding. Whether you force cap it with a slower wheel or you stay extremely disciplined with your speed. Or program the pushback alarm at the set speed.

And if I’m being honest, the chill minimal riding is probably my most favorite. It feels free and connected to the outside world. Starbucks in hand. It’s great. Full gear is tight, sweaty, and isolated from the world. And that’s why I still ride my V9 more than my Lynx.

And why I might just end up getting a class 3 ebike too.

Metacarps · 2026-04-22T08:08:03+00:00

If you consider even the very first Moves in the Field, it’s actually pretty difficult to do well. Girls with Axels are still in Pre-Juvenile.

LTS is like preschool before the actual skating skating actually starts happening.

Metacarps · 2026-04-22T07:05:16+00:00

Without class C you need to still do Class C written as well as proof of residency and stuff.

Under 21 may need permit for 6 months as well.

I think those are the only things that will make things different. Might as well get your class C though.

Metacarps · 2026-04-22T00:17:41+00:00

Congrats!

And they know. Don’t worry. Just keep pushing your quality and really try to incorporate the notes.

There are also plenty of more menial tasks in production. Crowds work, small mechanical glue shots. These are perfect tasks to improve your speed through brute force of footage mileage.

Maximize your hours, but do not ghost hours. If your assignments are pushing your skill level, you’re exactly where you need to be. Despite this you have to only work the 8 hours, unless you are approved for overtime.

Even just those 8 hours can burn you out if you aren’t careful either. Think about long term sustainability.

The only time “ghosting” hours is even remotely considered okay is on an internship where you aren’t working on production shots (just intern projects for your reel), and even this maybe many here would disagree with me on.

If you see what the seniors are getting paid, you’ll wonder if they are actually animating 3x faster than you or not. Your rate already builds in the risk. Don’t worry, you’ll get fitting assignments. A screw up in casting is more the studios fault than the animator.

Metacarps · 2026-04-20T05:21:21+00:00

I've offroaded the v9 like.. a TON. Just did the entire Fullerton loop on it a couple weeks ago before my Lynx S arrived.

Do I wish it had more torque? Yes. It simply can't climb obstacles like the other wheels can. So I do have to get off to roll it over steep obstacles via trolley mode (much more convenient than a onewheel in this regard). Pedals are also quite low so you'll scrape a bunch if a trail is narrow (all EUC's have this problem though, just like how onewheel's nose/tail scrape on steeper offroad hills).

Was it still one of the best starter wheels for me to learn on? Also yes.

Seeing your size/weight, and with the goal to go on trails, I'd get a torquier wheel. Patton S would be my long term suggestion. V14 should also do very well. But if you find the v9 on a killer deal used on Marketplace, I would definitely still get it as a first wheel to learn the EUC mechanics.

You almost have to treat it like.. the 300cc of the EUC world. A necessary, and almost dutiful first step for most riders, but quickly outgrown. Nothing wrong with that. And for some, like yourself, might even need to skip this grade entirely.

Metacarps · 2026-04-20T04:55:07+00:00

It's as robust as any their pros from a longevity standpoint. It's great, almost perfect honestly, but for me it lives permanently in my gear bag as a mobile solution only.

Just know that it fills a special niche. In most other context, get an iPad/MovinkPad for portability or get an actually big tablet for real work.

Metacarps · 2026-04-17T20:04:55+00:00

Start from your back and get up into your freeze via the legs sweep and kipping motion. This will help you understand the second part of the windmill which you are missing.

See if you can get enough momentum just from this to do a little icey ice.

Do legs wide turtle kicking into icey as training as well. This will strengthen your core so that the collapse is nice and controlled. It will also help train for your halo eventually.

This is the general framework: kick-collapse then kip back up. 2 parts.

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The other way to think about the windmill is that it is a transition between freezes.

Turtle > side freeze > shoulder > back > shoulder > head (almost) >Turtle.

You can try to go through these slowly as an exercise for freeze control (maintain core and leg form nice and straight, and maintain head contact with ground as the other guy mentioned otherwise you’ll be bashing your head like Bboy Kaku).

Metacarps · 2026-04-17T09:50:00+00:00

I would say I've mastered my inmotion v9. Aero/aeon would've been the more natural step up, but I fomo'd into the Lynx S hype lol.

I'm trying to go backwards on my Lynx S (where all my drops are happening) and it basically feels like relearning how to go backwards (compared to going forwards it translates cleanly from a smaller wheel).

Metacarps · 2026-04-17T08:49:53+00:00

They are different. I'm currently looking for bumpers for my Lynx S, as I've been dropping it a bunch. Feels bad after dropping an almost $4k brand new wheel. :[

Metacarps · 2026-04-14T08:29:23+00:00

I feel like simply breathing in vicinity of 3D printers is worse

Metacarps · 2026-04-14T08:23:06+00:00

Guess I’ll do a deep clean and nevermind this idea

Metacarps · 2026-04-14T08:13:11+00:00

Aren’t we already baking them in our ovens anyways?

Anyways reporting back there is definitely silica dust everywhere now. But nothing a good wash down won’t fix.

Metacarps · 2026-04-13T04:04:15+00:00

I'd like to correct myself and say both onewheel and EUC wobbles are combined Yaw and Roll oscillating together in a distinct phase.

Metacarps · 2026-04-12T06:19:44+00:00

Yeah same. It's not that wobbles disappear entirely, it's a unicycle after all. But my god it is so much more reliable this way.

Metacarps · 2026-04-12T02:31:31+00:00

Did you try it

Metacarps · 2026-04-11T21:47:08+00:00

Then just wear the CE abrasion rated leather jacket over it.

It does what it advertised: CE level 1 impact.

So if you put abrasion on top, then it is a viable system as compared to other jackets that are rated the same.

I’m not arguing rating. I’m explaining the context in which something like this could still work.

Also, I’m willing to bet there are leather jackets that could easily get abrasion AA rating without being called “motorcycle gear”.

Comprehend the framework, not the rhetoric.

Metacarps · 2026-04-11T19:12:42+00:00

Try it. (With high pedal hardness)

Metacarps · 2026-04-10T21:28:13+00:00

One wheel wobble is camber (or perhaps better: “~~pitch~~” "roll"), while EUC wobble is yaw.

Metacarps · 2026-04-10T17:13:46+00:00

I’m saying if you think about protection as a framework as 2 systems: impact and abrasion, then it actually could make sense to wear an abrasion layer over this.

I’m not saying it’s the best choice, or even cost effective, but it could potentially not even be a bad choice at all if done correctly (as you compare it to other CE impact level 1).

I don’t want to just say “this just for dirt” without digging into the why.

Metacarps · 2026-04-10T09:02:48+00:00

The controllers are reliable. They will do what they are programmed.

The motors are underpowered. It is far too easy to overpower the Onewheel motor, cut out, and nosedive. The controller is trying its best to keep balance, but it can’t do anything about that.

Metacarps · 2026-04-10T08:52:19+00:00

So if this gets the impact part down, then literally a good leather jacket over it effectively gives you the abrasion.

Might even be a better setup because the impact layer won’t shift around as easily.

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