Mount of shame caught by my wyze cam
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imgur.comPosted Apr 17, 2021, 10:59 PM UTC
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imgur.comThe board was already engaged/balanced. The mount of shame is from when it's not engaged, tail on the ground, and you go to engage/balance it. You had a 0mph nosedive :D
Loosen your flight fins/mounts.
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Haha good point..ive definitely had way worse nosedives, but I was always somewhat anticipating it. But yeah, I need to fine that sweet spot, 90% of the time it works every time though 😂
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Bro there’s no shame in that, I fell off once and launched my xr into my brand new Honda Civic and scratched the crap out of the bumper....better you fall at this speed instead of rolling at 15mph and snapping your femur
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Damn man, that's awful! Yeah, I got really close to my car. Definitely sucked, I was not expecting it at all and slammed pretty good. Had just got home from a nice ride and wanted to take the battery down a bit more, so I still had all my pads on. Luckily no one was outside to see it happen
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I can't get a good laugh out of this. Been there too many times for it to be funny. How cold was it out?
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Yeah, it sucked man. It wasn't too cold, high 40's, but breezy. My favorite weather bc I can gear up and not sweat my ass off. Rode about 10 miles today without a hiccup before this, great way to end.. Ha.
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10 miles is 16.09 km
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I dig my fangs on the pint. When pushing the board or simply making a mistake. That second of rolling after the nose goes down is crucial to setting up a roll. I also like how if I dip the front corner of the board on a hard carve there is less friction with the wheel vs the bumper. I cant really say the mount of shame is that much worse. The board might roll a little. That gif is wild.
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I hear ya man, I love mine too, they have saved me more times than hurt me. This was such a strange occurrence, I was not remotely ready for it and paid for it. Most mounts of shame with fangs just result in the board kinda rolling back a bit, causing you to awkwardly step off.
What I think happened here is my own fault. My Flightdeck had an air bubble under it (or potentially my fins being too tight), causing engagement issues, just a little fickle to engage sometimes.. Well, it engaged, I put a little pressure to move, it disengaged, nose went down and I was leaning slightly forward with pressure still on it, so now it re-engaged but thought I was going in reverse since the nose was down, so it shot itself out from under me and the fangs just helped it slide.
I was also around 35% battery, which doesn't help and I suppose could have overpowered the motor, causing the brief nosedive, but the ground is relatively level at that spot and I wasn't putting much weight on it, so I think it was a footpad engagement issue.
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Ah yea - ok. This makes a lot more sense. It didn't look fun. Sorry bro. I was having trouble understanding how a mount of shame could be so bad but your explanation seems on point.
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All good man! Fortunately I was fully padded, armored jacket, knee pads under my jeans, wrist guards..so I was just a little sore for a day. It was definitely a freak accident and not a normal mount of shame or anything I could blame on the board. Live and learn!
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it re-engaged but thought I was going in reverse since the nose was down
Why would it go in reverse if the nose was down? Just trying to understand what happened exactly since I recently bought fangs...
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It went in reverse bc the nose was down and both sides of the sensor were engaged. If you think about going in reverse, that's how it is, the nose is down and the sensor is engaged. The problem here was that I wasn't trying to go in reverse and was actually falling forward, but it thought the sensor was engaged. So as I fell, it turned the motor on hard and shot it the opposite direction and out from under me. The fangs helped the acceleration, but it's not a fault of the product.
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If you think about going in reverse, that's how it is, the nose is down and the sensor is engaged.
But that's the opposite of what should happen. I.e., when the rider pushes down on the nose the board goes forward, not in reverse. Am I missing something?
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At least you didn’t hit the Mazda . ;). Zoom zoom !
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Ever since installing my fins, my front sensor is a little wonky to engage, normally it's fine and I can balance it out until it engages.. This time it engaged and then promptly disengaged, somehow throwing me forward. Luckily I was fully padded (armored jacket and knee pads under my pants) or it would have hurt bad, I was not ready for this one at all. Thought someone might get a laugh out of it.
Damn. Glad you're ok! Is this how mounts of shame go with fangs installed?
I would say that, unlike moving nosedives, when mounting, the fangs actually are a detrimental. Without fangs the end of the board goes to ground and you just awkwardly step off. With fangs you're still on skates and this can be the result.
Glad your Okay! Gear 1 : Asphalt god 0
Go gear!
I totally agree with you there, spot on. Fangs make moving nosedives a little better and "mounts of shame" much worse.
I love my armored jacket, level 2 pads in the shoulders and elbows, took some impact there.. Slammed my wrist, yay wrist guards, and my knee, yay full knee pads.. It's shit like this that makes pads worth it. I'm definitely more sore than I'd like to admit from that, but I'd be in a world of pain if I didn't have anything on.
Looks like a <1mph pressure off one of two sensors situation. And yeah, that's what I was thinking in terms of fangs... probably fantastic for straightline nosedives, potentially worse for slow speed unexpected stuff like this. And I always imagine a nosedive while carving hard - a situation where at times my center of mass is traveling in a somewhat different direction that then board is pointing - could be made worse if the fangs kind of lock the board in the direction it's facing. I haven't seen reports of that, but that's why I've stuck with just a float plate - more friction but less directionality. But I've also saved my only nosedive so far, and may well reconsider when that changes.
That's exactly what happened. The 4 bolt flight fender is a little too tight, putting pressure on my sensor, making it a bit wonky and somehow caused it to disengage. I need to tweak it some, but that's what did me in here.
Thanks man! Good eye on the fans. Normally the board has forward momentum and will kinda roll forward with the fangs, this time I had about 35% battery, facing downhill and I guess overpowered the motor at the same time it disengaged and it catapulted me.
Do you think you over powered it or just didn't activate the sensor?
It definitely engaged. There's sound in my original video and you can hear it, along with my moaning and cursing. so I think I overpowered it or it started to go forward, then the sensor went wonky and shut it down..