I unsubbed from fortnine after that, he sucks now
But, the modular helmets are fine if ECE22.06 rated. They have steel latches
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.
edit: it released today
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.
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
For me I've been riding my new mten5 around a lot. It gets about 20 miles of range and will happily cruise at 20mph (max is somewhere over 30).
I also have an ebike, escooter, and 3 other electric unicycles (EUCs) but this little ripper has been my favorite this week.
While I would love that, I really can't imagine valve being able to handle the logistics and driver support that would come with that endeavor.
The deck still has a lot of bugs, such as touch scrolling being broken if you try to scroll down in your library a few pages.
I can't imagine valve handling "user has put the console in sleep mode, detached the console from the egpu dock, and woken it from sleep" without bugs
Sitting on the train on my way to friday night ride