***STOLEN ONEWHEEL from Santa Monica area***

13 October 2015, 00:04 UTC

Hey guys
A guy a know in santa monica, CA got his board stolen from his porch. They didn't get the charger. Would be great if FM would require a serial number to buy a charger. So look out for a board for sale or someone looking to buy a charger!!
Onewheel serial ending 0117

13 October 2015, 00:15 UTC

@Onewheel-Support Yes please make this a requirement to buying a charger! Lets make it difficult when someone wants to sell a stolen one of these!! Also, If you guys see this board for sale 0117. Contact @ricoburgos right away! So he can talk to the guy he sold it to. Poor guy only had it a week!

13 October 2015, 00:29 UTC

everyone keep your eyes peeled for OneWheel for sale with no charger!

craiglist, ebay and local socal listings. Once the thief realizes it's useless without an expensive charger I bet he'll try to sell it without one rather than cough over money for it.

13 October 2015, 00:36 UTC

Would be great if FM would keep a list of stolen boards.

13 October 2015, 01:04 UTC

Damn this sucks...was wondering when someone would eventually report one stolen here. Would be great if there was a way to actually track boards through the app or otherwise. I doubt there's any way for FM to regulate/track charger sales. If they are smart this scumbag ordered a charger as soon as they could but like utsu said keep an eye out for that board and SN for sale without the charger.

13 October 2015, 01:10 UTC

Also, he only had it a week and serial # is 0117??

13 October 2015, 01:23 UTC

It was a second hand board! @SC720

13 October 2015, 10:30 UTC

@ricoburgos I'm so sorry to hear this! I hope you find it!

13 October 2015, 14:43 UTC

What a scumbag to go on someone's porch.. To me thieves deserve the worst punishment.. If I find you on my porch you're getting beat! In my house, dead!

14 October 2015, 02:14 UTC

OMG, if the OW app had a FindMe Feature or if the OW had something like a LoJack installed...

11 July 2016, 03:02 UTC

Geez. Crazy. They should definitely create a app kind of like Find My Mac with a GPS

11 July 2016, 05:32 UTC

**i left mine outside a store, not locked up and left on. I look out and a guy was trying to ride off on it! He couldn't figure out how to ride it, thankfully. I yelled at him and he bailed. **

12 July 2016, 09:43 UTC

I was thinking of dropping a gps chip inside the area under the footpad, where the connections are like a pet locator or a lost keys... A cheap chip in case some how someone were to get w hold of the board, it were grabbed from my car or something.

13 July 2016, 02:11 UTC

There is an easy solution, which I already use. I embedded a "tile" inside my battery box. I don't recommend opening that box, but you can find somewhere else. Your smartphone can track these things anywhere.

https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=the+tile+tracker&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=70674083123&hvpos=1t2&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17071375786773237157&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_7x6kkro91i_b

13 July 2016, 03:40 UTC

@count - how far can your device track the tile in your OW when it's not getting help from other devices? Can you set an alert if it get too far away or goes out of range?
Thanks
Wr420

13 July 2016, 03:57 UTC

Frankly I have not tested it beyond the confines of my property, for lost keys and such. You may want to check the tech specs on their site, as I am led to believe the range is significant!

13 July 2016, 05:11 UTC

@wr420 site says 100ft range and 1 year battery life. So, you'd have to get within 30m of the thief... that's not optimal.

13 July 2016, 15:36 UTC

@Count Yeah I researched a lot of those type devices a few months ago, wanting to do the same thing. Unfortunately, none of them seem to be very dependable over long distances.

13 July 2016, 17:11 UTC

This sucks!
Last week I was doing some night riding and I had a car passing me slam on it's brakes. Then some drunk douchebag jumped out of the back of the car and started chasing me yelling "that OneWheel is going to be mine!"
Fortunately I got lucky and was able to out pace him on the board while ordering up an Uber that was close by. I was able to meet the Uber after circling around the block for only a minute or two and escaping the clutches of a would-be thief.
I've been apprehensive of night riding ever since.

13 July 2016, 20:20 UTC

Dang bro, where do you live? Sounds like Rio.

13 July 2016, 20:25 UTC

@BallewBoard Shit man, are you serious?? I worry about that kind of thing quite a bit, actually. I was riding through some shady area once and some sketchy looking dude yelled out "How much do those things cost?" All I could think was I'd better get the fuck out of there before I get robbed.

13 July 2016, 21:52 UTC

@jordo Seattle, WA.
It was in a middle class neighborhood, too.
The last place I thought something like that would happen.

13 July 2016, 22:49 UTC

Daaamn @BallewBoard!!! I'm in Portland, figured we were pretty safe from that type activity in the NW. Guess we gotta be ready to stop, drop, and roll some fools at any time.

13 July 2016, 22:49 UTC

@Count yes, I have an extra tile sitting here which is what brought about my thought in the first place....

14 July 2016, 05:56 UTC

@BallewBoard I had a black Escalade pull up on the shoulder in front of me one night. Luckily it was a kid with a "that's cool man" from the back seat as I passed by. I was expecting more along the lines of what you described though. I usually carry some form of protection now at night.

14 July 2016, 08:42 UTC

@thegreck exactly, researched this a bit when i was big into programming quadcopter's (lost quite a few). There are some gps lowjacks out there, but for the OW https://www.thetrackr.com/ or https://www.thetileapp.com/ might be best - they are bluetooth/ble and limited to like 30 ft or so but have a crowd locate thing going on. I haven't used them, only have used a larger cellular gps tracker, but thinking about grabbing one of those and hiding/attaching it to the OW.

14 July 2016, 14:06 UTC

@wr420 I almost always have a can of dog mace in my pocket when I ride, due to all the strays in my neighborhood. But I think it could easily become douche mace in a pinch.

16 July 2016, 01:26 UTC

I purchased 5 of these today. They look promising, and can be ordered with a water resistant housing. I'll let you know once I check it out, but if it performs as advertised, it should be exactly what we need! https://www.thetrackr.com/

16 July 2016, 03:03 UTC

Probably the best would be to drop an old cellphone, like a iphone 3gs, hook the usb cable somewhere on the inside, i guess you got 5 or 12 volt, that way you just put a low internet access simcard, it would have both a battery itself, leech it off the onewheel and charge, and a pretty good gps, that youeven can track in real time while driving.