Onewheel GT Review - 50 Miles In

Onewheel GT Review – 50 Miles In

Full disclosure, I really like the Onewheel GT.

My experience has been great.

I’ve been lucky enough to avoid all of the known issues and my board came with 30% charge and working great.

First thing I did was unbox it, and take up a hill and drain the battery.

I ended up getting about 7 miles or ride before it died on me, and this was up and down some serious hills.

Since then I’ve ridden just about every day and it has been a blast.

My previous board was the Onewheel Pint and without any other context, I loved it.

I had my pint for about 2 years and right before the GT was announced, I was planning on either upgrading to the XR or getting a Chi battery.

The Ride

This board is a notable difference from the Pint.

I got on and told my wife that this was a different animal.

There’s a power in this board that the Pint never had, and as far as I understand it, even the XR doesn’t reach this kinda umph.

I try to describe it by explaining the mounting experience.

With the Pint, I hop on and the board clearly powers up and groans a little.

The GT got ME up and was begging to ride.

Now the tire is a little different, it’s definitely higher and you feel that on any turn where you lean a little too far, but I found that after only a few minutes of riding I was able to avoid that tipping point.

I think with more time on the board I’ll get more comfortable with where that tipping point is and how to use it.

The Charge

One of the biggest wins for me was the battery and the charge on the Onewheel GT.

Coming from a 2 year old Pint I was starting to only get 4-6 miles per charge, so the idea that a board could go 20-32 miles was insane to me.

I was even skeptical because of some videos I had seen saying that the high end of that range is pretty unrealistic.

Well. It’s pretty realistic.

I’ve so far not been able to kill the battery in one ride.

My longest ride was around 22 miles and I still had 40% battery left.

Now I know that there are multiple variables there, size, weight, tire pressure, terrain.

But the fact that I could get that kind of distance at all is just absolutely insane to me.

The Issues

There have been plenty of issues surrounding the launch of the Onewheel GT.

My board was delayed almost 4 months, which yea, that sucks.

And I can imagine that if I got a board that had some issues I’d be pretty upset, but in fairness Future Motion, logistics have been kinda tough the last little bit.

Even companies like Apple have reduced the amount of products they can ship and sell, and that’s just the stuff we know about.

There’s likely plenty we don’t know.

And I know that getting a product that either doesn’t work or has issues sucks (I bought a brand new iMac last year that just stopped working) but it really does happen to everyone AND I think some of what we’re seeing on reddit is made up.

I think people love to hop on the doom and gloom bandwagon, and if you don’t already know, reddit has a little bit of a reputation for being pretty salty and unforgiving.

I’m quite sure there are several customers who bought a board and just never posted about how great their experience is.

The Verdict

Go get one.

I already said it, I love the board and I’m having a blast.

The more boards they put out, the fewer errors and issues there will be. I can’t recommend this board enough, the whole experience for me has been fun.

I actually kind of even enjoyed the delays because it gave me something to look forward to every week.

I found my self checking my tracker all the time and super excited when the board moved up a day or 2 (and also devastated when it got delayed) but I also became a bigger member of the community because of the shared waiting experience.

Go grab a board, it’s worth the wait.