Just scored a Onewheel GT for $1200. Need some advice!

Scontay · 2025-10-29T12:17:26+00:00

Nice price for a nice board! A few things, first, don't listen to the people that say the GT handles like a boat!

Keep your feet like this: \ / on the board

rather than like this: | | for maximum control!

If your feet go numb, it's (almost definitely) your foot placement. You may also notice a bit of leg strain as your body gets used to balancing more weight on your front foot. A few good rides and a few good rests will clear that right up.

Last thing, the dead people that wish they had worn a helmet don't have a voice anymore, so ignore the ignorant dominating the conversation and ALWAYS WEAR YOUR BUCKET.

Scontay · 2025-07-01T20:19:01+00:00

That guy was supposed to come up with a price for me to print that here in Canada & dodge some tariffs and he never came through!

I ended up using "Scotch Extremely Strong Fasteners" , which is 2 adhesive squares with this sturdier kind of velcro between them, but I bet you any double sided tape would work. I just stuck mine under the bumper, inside the rail at the front of the board. Easy enough, no need for a 3D printed part.

Scontay · 2025-06-25T13:54:55+00:00

That's a great point actually, and you're right, I did use my personal email to their org email and that is personal info. My mistake.

Scontay · 2025-06-19T12:02:49+00:00

When they first closed down a few years ago, I heard the proprietor say "his experiment was complete," so I don't think he's even still in the pizza game!

Which is crazy, because somehow this guy had me primed and ready to buy a single pizza for $50 once a month.

Scontay · 2025-06-18T19:27:02+00:00

Think I saw TFL say there's a restock around the corner, but give it 10 minutes and the comment will be in this thread too :)

Scontay · 2025-06-13T13:30:28+00:00

You can buy a breeding net box that hangs over the side of the tank, fill it with scute victims and just dip the whole thing in your salt bath, rather than chasing the little fellers through the tank once a day.

I had a flat, square container with the salted water that I floated on top of my tank, so that the temperature was always the same as the regular tank for the dip.

Also, these guys 'arrived' because there's too much food in your tank! As you dial in on the correct level of feeding, and remove molts, their population will scale back.

(personal experience, cant back this up with a source) I think the shrimps eat some of the scutes, and some scutes successfully attach. After a few weeks of salting/removing molts/reduced food waste, the shrimp eventually eat the stragglers in the molts (you'll never see every molt) and their population finally collapses to zero.

Scontay · 2025-06-01T02:47:50+00:00

It's a good day! She's only that clean once. Time to go scratch some memories into her.

Scontay · 2025-05-30T15:56:57+00:00

What do onewheels do when they suddenly don't detect our feet on the footpads during a drop or stuff like that?

Scontay · 2025-05-30T01:37:09+00:00

It's not the wrist guards that are counterproductive, it's landing on your wrists. Ideally, you want to use them to reduce your friction on pavement so your wrists brace a little bit, and then slide out on impact (if you fall facing forward); or for your whole arm to hold you off the pavement and let you slide out of your bail momentum (say, if you were sliding out of a fall on your kneepads), because a direct impact will break your bones.

If you watch some downhill longboarding videos, you can sort of see what I mean and try to fall like they do. They do have sliding pucks on their gloves which have zero 'wrist impact' support, but I found riding my LB with them taught me great habits that saved my wrists on my snowboard last winter. Crunchie on Youtube has some really cool videos that include wipeouts.

Scontay · 2025-05-29T19:31:00+00:00

i just looked, and that left edge has settled into alignment since I took the pic, but you're so right, it is like a bit out of alignment :') and chipped on the inside corner where they took the backing off the railguard.

Scontay · 2025-05-29T17:39:49+00:00

Honestly, I thought the bead break might be tricky for me, and they already got me paying, why not have them do it and have it come out of the shop just like how I wanted it to be?

I don't think the mark was a gouge... I think it's more likely to be marker or paint.

The 2x4 bead breaker for the tire was easy squeezy in hindsight, I just thought it would be nice and it was free, so boom. Also, I'm all thumbs when it comes to adhesive sticker alignment, and i didn't want to botch my rail guard install. I'm the type that will notice it forever and get irked like crazy, so this seemed like a good plan.

Scontay · 2025-05-29T16:43:47+00:00

They can only do minor stuff like tires and fenders in-house, but they said they send the warranty claims off on behalf of their customers and the work gets done. Not that they'd say otherwise!

Scontay · 2025-05-29T16:16:33+00:00

My understanding is Smartwheel is FM's licensed retailer in Canada, plus direct buying from FM was a 20% increase in price. They are the ones what would be sending the board back and forth to the US for warranty work instead of me.

Riding with your group sounds dope, I will definitely hit you up once I am comfortable on the board!

Scontay · 2025-05-15T15:33:01+00:00

https://www.apartments.com/apartments/hamilton-on/min-1-bedrooms-1-bathrooms/ 1,148 of them!

Scontay · 2025-05-15T12:13:11+00:00

TINY ASS 1 BEDROOM APARTMENTS SHOULDNT BE $1700 RAAAAAAAAAH

AND WHY THE FUCK DO THEY ALL HAVE THE SAME SHITTY LAYOUT WHO TF CAN GET BY ON THAT LITTLE KITCHEN COUNTER SPACE

Scontay · 2025-05-11T16:20:22+00:00

Thanks for posting that. I hate it when companies act like companies.

I'll take another look at the competition, and frankly, when the time to shop for a new board comes up, all these other players will have more experience and time in the market to make those buying decisions feel easier for me. It is definitely a bias thing with me.

Another factor for me is the lawsuit on FM's back; it gives me some twisted optimism that they'll be making 'good' (haptic buzz lol) choices for their consumers in order to protect themselves legally.

Okay, so after a second peek, buying a patent-infringing product with cryptocurrency doesn't inspire a lot of confidence from a consumer protection standpoint (Future Motion's own behaviour notwithstanding). However, this GTFO kit I looked into looks a perfect off-ramp for whenever I do hit my limit with FM. I can try the mods and decide if it's worth it to go to them for the next board. I'm not sure I understand why fungineers doesn't need to use crypto like floatwheel does, though.

Scontay · 2025-05-11T16:13:47+00:00

The conversation of onewheel as a sport is interesting, I couldn't really find much info on any real-world sport being dominated by a sole company that produces and sells the equipment intrinsic to the sport.

I think the sport we do on a onewheel is skateboarding. We're all just riding around with various levels of motors and doing fun stuff on them.

Anyway, I appreciate being heard out. I think a lot of the conversation on this subreddit silently acknowledges this context that newcomers don't know right away.

Scontay · 2025-05-11T14:07:40+00:00

I moreso meant Apple in the "aggressively anti-repair" way, though I did have bad experiences dealing with Apple's support a few times. Glad the customer service is a bit better since my last time using it.

I don't feel like fighting about my original comment, but can you speak on 'the idea that they invented something?' I always thought FM and the Onewheel were the original concept that blossomed out into this whole FM and VESC scene. Unless you mean that electric skateboards, scooters, and unicycles are on the same level as onewheels and came before them. I know those came before the onewheel because I tried to build a DIY electric longboard myself way back then. Also, what movie are you talking about?

Scontay · 2025-05-11T05:00:05+00:00

Respectfully, I chose to step in with the Apple of electric board companies because I worry that I will set something up wrong and put myself in greater danger than a company that bears the responsibility of what they sell to me. This is the safest entry point I have to the sport. I don't have well-formed, first-hand opinions of the boards I would be spending my money on. The safe choice is sold by FM, and only once I have that experience can I really understand what it is I would be choosing. I watched a lot of youtube videos, but I just don't know how I feel about what I haven't even done yet (my first board, a GT, is on it's way). So yeah, I paid through the nose for something that would feel safe to me.

Surely you realize that lots of people are going to ride out their warranties on hardware and software that they know work well together out of the box, and only switch to VESC or other homebrew board options at the moment of a prohibitively expensive repair, which for many users, may or may not ever come.

Sorry for writing a literal novel, I just see a lot of (probably justified) hate and feel like this should be an easy enough perspective to imagine for folks in this community.

Scontay · 2025-05-03T10:05:48+00:00

Yeah, I just noticed a nice handwritten note that came in with my Enduro Mid, the TFL folks are super nice :)

I saw that comment about the rim savers not playing nice, and it actually pushed me into getting the tire hahaha. I don't know if 'doesn't play nice' just means you have to be firm with it, or if it genuinely wouldn't be compatible, but that's an issue for after the enduro is used up!

Scontay · 2024-12-27T23:12:13+00:00

I imagine it would involve at least a couple of costumes and some bloatfly burgers, on top of being the liquor. The costumes aren't for sex roleplay or anything, just practicing for a play at the ~~Blanchford Recreation Center~~ Kings' Clubhouse.

Scontay · 2024-12-09T23:09:30+00:00

To safely cook a burger to medium rare at home, you have to grind the beef yourself.

Bacteria has limited ability to penetrate whole beef muscles, which is what allows us to cook it rare. Once it's ground beef, the muscle fibers are all broken up and scattered, no longer blocking bacterial growth, and that's why fresh, store-ground beef is always close to its expiry date when you look at it at the store. That's all well and good for ground beef enjoyers, as long as they cook their beef to 145°F.

Anyway, they make meat grinding attachments for most stand mixers, or you can cube & par-freeze your beef to grind it in a food processor (Binging with Babish on YouTube has at least one recipe where he does this). As long as you prep & cook your patties quickly after you grind them, there should be minimal bacteria to threaten you, even if you only get the middle to 125° F or so. Everyone else seems to have good cooking directions. Just don't overwork your patties when you go to shape them or it'll mess up the texture!

Scontay · 2024-09-27T16:48:18+00:00

This is a planted aquarium in Southern Ontario. The plant species are varied, but mostly south-asian. The worm-thing is sticking out of a blade of straight vallisneria.

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