The newest addition to Onewheel’s lineup is meant to be the middle ground between this team’s existing Pint and GT series: priced at $1,400
if one wheel has a million haters, I am one of them. if one wheel has ten haters, I am one of them if one wheel has one hater, then I am that hater if one wheel has no haters, it means I am dead.
Why the hate?
They have engineering issues along with all the rest. They still refuse to acknowledge wiring issues on the Pint X, even going so far as to blame people that opened their boards to check as causing them. This falls pretty flat when you have dozens if not hundreds of people with pictures showing the same issue. The only “confirmation” they have issued that I’m aware that the issue is resolved is from 8 months ago to a youtuber comment saying the problem has been fixed with all new boards. You can also mail them the board and they “will check” to see if their is an issue, but they have done literally nothing proactive, and have alerted no customers directly of the possibility of an issue.
Having all the wiring in your $1100, 18mph single wheel board fail at random because of an unacknowledged design flaw that could have been solved with a dollars worth of protetive plastic doesn’t instill confidence.
Tilt forward a little too much and the board is driven into the ground with a powered wheel behind it. So easy to crash. The design is inherently flawed and requires the user to maintain level balance at all times and on fairly stable and level ground.
I’ve seen people take these off road without much issue and that’s awesome for them but if it’s my money, I want to buy and ride something that is more forgiving, especially when motorized. I say that as someone who regularly rides an electric mountain bike that goes 80 km/h.
What you’re talking about is really not a problem with modern boards and safety features. I disagree that that it’s inherently flawed. You can also crash a bike if you ride it wrong.
The real problem is with the company, which is anti-user and anti-competitive.
Apprently, their are 3rd party “fangs” that you can fit on front that have small wheels on them that fix this. They are another $120 on top of the cost of the $1100 boards.
they are very anti repair afaik. Louis Rossmann made a video about it. they might’ve changed but I doubt it. if you’re interested search for that Rossmann video.
This really just seems like they just added some accessories to the pint x.
The owner or whatever in the YouTube comments confirms the above. They added a wider board, a wheel with better traction, and metal side handle.
All of the internals/software are the exact same as the Pint X.
They are pushing the same software update/speed increase to the Pint X at least, so they aren’t actively segmenting them via software features/top speed at least.
Is this one also a fire hazard that might try and run over a child if you don’t put it on a leash?
