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Ouch, that sucks, good luck in your recovery. The issue with the One Wheel is that it balances nose to tail by accelerating or decelerating, but it has a finit
by evan_ 5y ago
Ouch, that sucks, good luck in your recovery.
The issue with the One Wheel is that it balances nose to tail by accelerating or decelerating, but it has a finite amount of power available. Once you’re going close to the top speed it can’t accelerate anymore (or you’re maxing out the acceleration) it can no longer balance to the nose side and the front drops.
There’s “pushback” to warn you, people try to mitigate it with extra little wheels (“fangs”), but it’s really seems like it’s just an inherent issue.
- conductr 5y agoThanks! Doing ok, just wish I wore my PPE from the beginning lol!! I really underestimated the speeds. I have rode regular skateboards a ton so guess I was cocky. Interesting tidbit about the onewheel. I always thought it was a sensor/user issue but what you describe does sound inherent with the design. I'd think at some point you could just level it out and maintain speed, or leaning in further just doesn't do anything other than alter your pitch. What your describing is that constant speed (0 acceleration) isn't really a possibility which sounds odd.
- evan_ 5y agoIt's not like it goes from 10mph to 15mph to 5mph constantly or anything. Accelerating immediately causes the board to tilt back to your neutral angle and the controller lowers the output after a few milliseconds. You can generally keep going at whatever speed you want to go but there are probably tiny fluctuations.