After watching me on my Onewheel Plus for the last year and seeing countless YouTube videos on the pint my wife decided it was time for her to try to float. If you missed my previous blog post about how I was able to get a onewheel pint in a week without having to wait in line you can check it out here.

First off, the pint is awesome. I absolutely love the build quality. It feels very solid but also really refined. I will do a full review of the board and how it compares to the plus, boosted boards etc shortly but this post is mainly focused on my wife’s first foray into the float life and her experience on the pint and plus as a brand new rider.

I will say the pint packaging is a little cheaper in that it just comes in a cardboard box, but honestly I would rather that if it helps keep the costs down.

It comes with the board, a little manual, the charger and some business cards lol.

When we got the board it was about 30% charged so we plugged it in and waited about an hour to get fully charged before we headed off to a park for the first ride, well we actually tried the back yard first but its on a pretty steep slope which did not make a good spot for my wife’s first try…

After she got fully geared up ( vans, jeans, knee pads, elbow pads, wrist guards and a helmet) we were ready for the first mount! Since we now had a large grass field it was much easier for her to start to feel out the board.

You should know that my wife has no skateboard or snowboard experience and she has been struggling with chronic back pain and nerve damage after we got in a boat accident a few years ago so she is not as strong as she would like to be. She is pint sized and has tiny size 5.5 US feet which is why she was so excited about the pint sized board.

She quickly found that ‘bailing’ or jumping off the board with 2 feet at the same time was not very easy for her but lifting her heal worked really well on the pint as did the simple stop. She really liked having 3 options to get off the board. After about 20 minutes of me holding her she did a quick ride on her own!

After a little riding on the pint she decided to try the onewheel plus. Her initial reaction was that it was easier to stand on, more stable due to the larger flatter tire, but harder to get off. She had a much harder time lifting her heal because the foot pad area is so much larger than her foot making it difficult for the foot sensor to know that she was trying to stop.

Onewheel Plus

Onewheel Pint

Even though the larger flatter tire of the plus was more stable, the lack of simple stop and the more difficult heal lift due to the larger food pad made getting off much more difficult for my wife.

We ended her first ride with some more 2 footed bail practicing which almost resulted in me getting headbutted, you have to see the video to get the full effect lol.

She is super excited to get out some more and and really had a blast on the pint. It’s going to take a bit for her to get comfortable on it but I know she’s up to it, and she’s really exited!

So if you have smaller feet I think the pint would be a really big improvement over the plus or XR especially for dismounting. In the little bit that I got to ride so far I found the pint to also be way more nimble and maneuverable than the plus or XR and it fit my size 9.5 feet just fine and was very comfortable!

And a little comparison with the plus. Thanks mom for holding the boards 🙂

The plus seemed pretty sluggish by comparison when I got back on it after riding the pint. You can see some highlights from our first ride in the YouTube vid below.

Stay tuned for a more detailed review of the pint in future posts when I get some more miles under my belt and can really test out the range (the thing I am most worried about).

If you are interested in any of the gear I used to film and edit the video including the new wireless mic that I am in love with you can head over to my gear page.

Keep floatin

-John D Dyer