Ralph Bucci has ridden Reveille Peak Ranch on a Onewheel and on an EUC. He knows exactly which one belongs on this terrain.
"The trails out here are pretty rocky. Onewheels can definitely ride this, but on the EUC it just makes it much more fun."
Bucci is a Georgetown, Texas resident who co-leads group rides with the Austin Onewheel Club and runs the Central Texas Electric Unicycle Group. He has been riding Reveille Peak Ranch for years. He switched from Onewheel to EUC specifically because of what this property demands. When he describes what an EUC rider can do on these trails, it sounds less like a ride report and more like a course preview.
"Now we can hit these trails at 30, 40 miles an hour, do 45-degree rock climbs, drop jumps, do all sorts of craziness."
This is where stop five of the 2026 USA EUC National Championship Circuit is being held. If you have not been paying attention to what is happening in the Texas Hill Country this April, it is time to start.
The Property
Reveille Peak Ranch sits outside Burnet, Texas, about an hour northwest of Austin. It was built as a mountain bike park, which means it was designed for riders who want real terrain, not a manufactured course. Thousands of acres. Trails rated for all skill levels, from fire roads suitable for beginners to black-rated descents that demand full commitment. Jump lines with custom features including a boat jump and a truck jump. A central lake surrounded by camping. Red dirt that is fine as clay silt, the color of Mars, the kind that gets into your wheel and your gear and stays there.
Luke Hsiao, co-founder of Lemonade Float Co and the event's organizer, has a two-word description for what EUC riders experience when they arrive: Disneyland.
"It was designed as a mountain bike park, and EUC riders push the limits. There are trails and trails for days. You're not really confined into just this one little area of the property."
Reveille Peak itself is the highest point on the property. The climb is a test. The descent is the payoff. Adjacent to the ranch, literally next door, is Spider Mountain, the only chairlift-served mountain bike park in Texas. If you exhaust the trail network at Reveille Peak Ranch, you can ride a lift to the peak and descend. The problem at this venue is never running out of terrain. The problem is deciding where to go first.
Bucci's practical advice for anyone making the trip: gear up heavy and bring more water than you think you need.
"It's Texas, it gets hot. Even though the event's in April, sometimes it can be in the mid-80s, low 90s, but the humidity is super, super heavy here. You're riding on like a big giant granite slab. You do get super thirsty."
Full face helmet. Full protective gear. The trails reward aggression and punish going down underprepared.
"You don't want to start your event with an injury and then you can't ride the rest of the week."
The Race
Lemonade Float Fest 2026 marks the first year of official USA EUC sanctioned racing at the event, with Amped Electric Games running EUC race operations on the ground. The race format runs across multiple stages on the actual trail network, not a parking lot circuit or a single marked loop. Time trials set the field. Finals determine the standings.
Amped Electric Games founder Seth Johnson is bringing a ramp and airbag to the venue. Between race heats, the jump line is open.
This is stop five of ten on the 2026 National Championship Circuit. Points earned here count toward season standings. With King of the Hammers, King of the Motos, Let It Ride 5, and Westworld Nationals already in the books, the circuit field is taking shape. Lemonade Float Fest is the first warm-weather, multi-day trail event of the season, and the terrain is unlike anything else on the calendar.
The Hosts
Luke Hsiao and CJ Maxwell, the co-founders of Lemonade Float Co, have been building this event for four years. They came up through the Austin Onewheel Club, which Luke has run since the Wednesday night group rides drew three or four people. Those rides now pull thirty to forty regulars. Luke also owns Electric Surf Co, a brick-and-mortar PEV shop in Austin. CJ runs a space utilization company his father started in 1997.
Neither of them is making money on Lemonade Float Fest. Every dollar comes back in.
They found the venue the same way they find most things in the PEV world: by asking where the good trails were. Luke and the property owner are both Texas A&M alumni. The pitch was simple. After year one, the owner's grandkids came out and loved it. The relationship has deepened every year since.
EUC riders started appearing on Luke's Wednesday night rides organically, one or two at a time, then more. Last year was the first year LFF officially hosted EUC races. This year is the first under USA EUC sanctioning.
Luke's assessment of how Onewheel riders privately feel about EUC speed and power is delivered with full self-awareness.
"Onewheel riders are secretly jealous of the power and the speed that you guys have. But we're not gonna admit that."
CJ is less equivocal about what he wants from the EUC community at this year's event.
"If they were all EUC riders this year, we would not be offended by any means. We would entertain and make it the best festival they've ever been to."
The Community
Ralph Bucci started riding Onewheels because he saw someone riding one in a park and could not stop thinking about it. He bought a used V1, learned to ride it in his apartment hallway, and within ten minutes had destroyed a desk, a MacBook Pro, and a camera. He went outside after that.
A few months later he knocked on CJ Maxwell's door to buy a charger and met the co-founder of Lemonade Float Co before he knew who CJ was. CJ pulled him into the Austin Onewheel Club. The rest followed: the group rides, the Central Texas EUC Group, the Friday night Austin rides that go to Walnut Creek, hit the trails, ride to the Domain for tacos, and head back. The Wednesday rides that run downtown Austin forty or fifty deep at speeds that get complicated in traffic.
"It's a family. It's not just I go ride with these guys and I go home. I can call a guy and be like, 'Hey man, I got something wrong with the truck.' Or 'I need help moving this.' Or 'You want to go grab a beer?' There are four or five guys lined up ready to go."
That community, the Austin Onewheel Club and the Central Texas EUC Group operating together under the same umbrella, is the local base that Lemonade Float Fest grew from. It is the reason the event has the culture it has. And it is the community that EUC riders traveling in from outside Texas are walking into when they register.
Bucci rides both platforms. Onewheel when he wants to clear his head on a casual carve. EUC when the terrain calls for more.
"When I'm riding, it's literally just me, the wheel on the road, and that's it. Nothing else matters."
What to Expect
Three days. Trails for every skill level. EUC time trials and finals on real terrain. Live music, food trucks, lakeside camping, and enough programming outside of racing that the people who are not racing have a full weekend too. Not sure if you're ready to race? Here's how to get started.
Lemonade Float Fest is not a race event that also has a festival attached. It is a festival that takes racing seriously. That distinction matters for the experience on the ground. The field is not separated from the rest of the event. The EUC riders running time trials in the morning are at the same campfire as everyone else that night.
Bucci has been to three Amped Electric Games events in Bentonville. He knows what it looks like when an organization builds something worth showing up for.
"It's so much fun to be part of such an awesome movement, such an awesome event. All these guys and gals and people, the organizers, just coming together and making something so awesome that we get to enjoy."
For EUC riders who have not made the trip to Burnet before, the combination of sanctioned national circuit racing, mountain bike park terrain, and a community that has been building this event from the ground up for four years is worth the drive.
Ralph Bucci will be there. He already knows where the good trails are.
Lemonade Float Fest, April 16-19, 2026
Reveille Peak Ranch | 105 County Road 114, Burnet, TX 78611
Stop five of ten on the 2026 USA EUC National Championship Circuit. EUC race operations by Amped Electric Games. Open to all skill levels. EUC classes include Pro Men, Pro Women, and Amateur divisions based on time trial results.
Tickets and registration: lemonadefloatco.com
EUC athlete registration: usaeuc.com/join
Local riding community: Austin Onewheel Club and Central Texas Electric Unicycle Group on Facebook.
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