Gaman

Hey all, whats your experience with crossing the canadian border both ways with a unicycle? Any chance of confiscation?

If I maintain a decent speed and lower my center of gravity slowly by bending my knees, it will start to wobble. I'm 6' tall. It also starts pretty easy if I'm tip toeing on the pedals. Keeping some weight planted uniformly on the pedals helps to keep it from starting. Once it starts I have to do the usual tricks to stop it: adjust center of gravity, put most weight on one pedal, or carve. I think it starts oscillating when one pedal dips, pushing the other pedal with weight on it up, which forces the other pedal back down again too fast, which forces the other pedal up again, and so on.

@5Cauac how easy is it for the lift sensor to disengage by accident?

I know there is a difference, I ride with a motorcycle helmet every day and have a really light bicycle helmet. But even with a motorcycle helmet on riding for hours, I do not ever go "this helmet is too tiring on my neck". It's just not a big deal and I don't feel any discomfort that would make me want to stop riding or give up extra safety. The only thing I can think of to give up the motorcycle helmet is if I'm limited to below 20mph or the summer gets too hot.

Strange that you're asking this when it seems you wrote a pretty thorough guide on helmets on GitHub? I don't see why people are complaining about weight, the weight of the helmet is centered on the top of your head and I don't really feel it as a burden. People in Africa can carry loads more on their heads and walk for miles. Similarly don't understand the peripheral complaint, motorcycles still need to watch for traffic and a head turn is going to be way more accurate. Every time I cross an intersection, I do a head check anyway to watch for cars not giving right of way. At 30mph I'm not burdened by wind noise either with a Bell Adventure MIPS

The energy required can go up to the cube of speed, depending on rolling resistance (linear) and wind resistance (quadratic). These are the dominating and limiting factors.

Got an email update from eWheels:

Seeing the v12 cutout issue and how Inmotion knew about the MOSFET problem before it was discovered concerns me. Has Kingsong kept safety secrets like this? Rethinking my s20 preorder. Does ewheels allow delaying a preorder for later batches?

Seems like a crazy low pressure, basically a little above the environment pressure so all the structural rigidity is coming from the rubber itself?

Your ebike seems to only have 500Wh of battery life? It's easy to spend on those other things when you don't have to give up so much profit margin to just buying battery cells. Add to that the huge manufacturing capacity and long history of the bicycle industry, then EUCs even competing with the cost is a marvel of globalization. A v11 for example will have 3x the motor power and 2x the battery capacity of any similarly priced ebike, and sure it's trading those pros with a con of manufacturing quality but I doubt it's light years ahead. EUCs are also just physically limited in space for large suspension mechanisms.

Ebikes are even more expensive for the performance you get. Actually makes EUCs seem like the budget option.

I'm interested in buying as a first EUC but not sure how to message you though, on a new account.