Aloha all! Genuine questions with none of the restlessness from past posts. Inquiring minds (mostly mine) want to know, what are your eskate specific pet peeves? Not just for riding, but the whole culture to include builds, safety, electricty, advertising, forum decorum, et al.
Not a an open call to rants. Give us your burning top five. Here’s mine:
Automobiles use your blinkers.
Riders in cities, pretend to follow some traffic rules. Increasing likelyhood I will clothesline bird scooters riding against traffic.
Advertisers, don’t claim your board is the fastest, most powerful, most best at anything. likely false, also desperate, this is why I DIY.
Don’t ride like a dickhead at group rides, we get it, you are skilled AF.
Builders, commercial and DIY, use metric only (this means you, America).
Apple does a damn fine job of making themselves look like tools; they don’t need much help. Damn if I was on a runway though modeling the newest hipster clothes and shit, they’d be a must-have fashion accessory.
Mine is that I don’t like DIY vendors that think their product is without fault and charge premium for not perfect item.
Oh and peeps who sell used parts for 99% of new price. If it’s used, it’s automatically 50%
IMO
Ps: not bashing anyone, just letting off some steam
When I put together a new or revamped build and something breaks 10 miles from my house on my first test ride and I have to kick the rest of the way home.
“Here’s a list of the cheapest parts I could find, can you tell me if this will work and get me 30 miles of range up any hill?”
"Here’s what I want, can you guys give me a parts list to make it happen under $300?
I’m sure I have a top five but this is what comes to mind. As far as most stuff having to do with vendors and customers in disagreement, I tend to think of it as a job and then it’s less of an annoyance.
People who REALLY likes to carve in GROUP rides. It’s so hard to ride with people who does this excessively. Almost got hit a few times.It’s a group ride keep an open lane for other people.
Vendors/builders who bash on other vendors is slightly annoying since I see this forum as a group effort to improve our hobby. I’ve been guilty of this, but then again he swears his Koowheel with a paint job is the best thing since sliced bread.
Esk8ers who bash on helmet wearing on FB, Reddit, etc. I get it, you don’t want to wear a helmet, that’s fine, but let’s promote safety rather than risky behavior. Less deaths and injuries might help to keep the law on our side. This should be a “do as I say not as I do” kinda thing.
WTF is kilo meter is that a gauge of kills in a game?
1 Helmets are big for me. Like it’s your choice and all but when I see youtubers (who people are as role models) running around at full speed with no helmet. To me that’s encouraging risky behavior.
2 I want board manufacturers to advertise watt hours kv gearing ratio voltage battery chemistry stator size etc (in addition to the meaningless top speed and range estimates they provide for other customers who don’t know or care what those other number are/ mean.
3 I wish the US would stop using metric like I’ve been raised using imperial and that’s what’s natural to me but why do we use it? It’s so dumb is over complicated and makes no sense to keep using a measurement system no other country uses.
I feel you, but being stupid American educated. I got used to the system. My office is exactly 10 miles from work, I know where the 5 mile mark is on my ride. Now imagine calling that 8.05km and 16.09km…that also seems weird. So in some ways the frustration goes both ways.
I’m fine with imperial when it’s stuff like distance (miles) and height (feet & inch) but for tools it’s so stupid. why the hell are we using damn fractions ?!?!?!
I can’t “see” how big that is…visually, take an inch, divided that into 64 parts, then take 9 of them, WTF!!!
