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Wow, that looks amazing! I don’t ride seated but if/when I do, this looks like a great setup.

The Icon Alcans look nice and I considered them as an upgrade to the Slabtowns in the ankle protection department. But I thought a pedal strike to the BOA ratchet wouldn't go so well, and at the time that was my biggest concern. Please report back with your impressions once you've tried them!

It would also be good if the headlight could adjust up or down based on the grade of the road in front of you. I don't know how best to achieve this. Maybe using something like the rear lasers of the Sherman S, but pointed forward and further out. A camera could then pick up the beam projection and then adjust the headlight based on its length and shape. Maybe this could work for straight, forward motion but it gets more complex when considering turns. Perhaps LIDAR could also be used?

@Seba, I noticed what may be a bug in the EUC World Garmin app, unless I am misunderstanding what the app is reporting. Looks like I was out for about an hour and 17 minutes, but the app reported an hour and 77 minutes. Initially I though it was strange to have more than 59 in the minutes position. Can you take a look?

The book that came with the shoes says they meet the water resistance (WR) Reference Standard for EN 13634:2017. I'm not familiar with that standard so can't really say what the WR rating amounts to. Haven't worn them in the rain yet, but can report back if / when they get put to the test.

I recently started wearing Alpinestars Superfaster shoes after a bad shin/ankle injury. The EUC pedal hit my shin from the front/left, took off a good chunk of skin, and probably did some bone damage. It took 2 weeks to heal well enough to get riding again, and 4 weeks to be back riding 100%. Hopefully I won't take another pedal clip to that area, but if it happens, these shoes cover that area and will provide some protection. They come up just high enough to not interfere with the Leatt dual axis. However, the soles on my other shoes are wider and flatter, which I think gives better control and stability. Maybe I just need to adjust to the new shoes.

Thank you for doing the experiment to see how the V14 operates with a battery pack disconnected. Related to that, a while back, @Jason McNeil posted a graph from Inmotion that shows how the top speed may be limited depending on how many batteries are connected:

Any two wheels can be compared as long as they meet one's minimum needs. All features / capabilities beyond that are a bonus, open up new riding style possibilities, give future resale potential, etc. In the case of Lynx / V14, the Lynx is touted as an excellent "all-rounder", and the V14 can be bought with either street, off-road, or hybrid tire and a firmer or softer coil suspension. So there is overlap in their usages. But if your needs are on the extreme end of either torque or speed, then you probably wouldn't be comparing these two wheels against each other. In that case you may be comparing V14 vs. Patton, or Lynx vs ET Max. And similarly for other key differences such as range or rim size.

This point is a key reason why the V14 hit a sweet spot for me. Since the V14 and Lynx released around the same time, and while the V14 suffered delays and 1st batch glitches, the Lynx hype was getting intense, I considered switching my order to the Lynx. In the end I stayed with the V14, some of the reasons being things that don't show up well in a comparison of specs. I try to keep my EUC profile low to avoid freaking people out too much. The Lynx is a beast and I suspect it looks intimidating to a casual observer. The V14 looks friendlier. That's important to me since I live in a building where people raise concerns about PEVs and the potential fire risk. Also my wife has valid concerns over my safety while riding. I imagined her taking one look at the Lynx, thinking it looks too dangerous, then googling it and finding YouTube thumbnails with garish claims of 50+ MPH. So in terms of size, looks, and top speed (which I am fine with), the V14 helps me manage perceptions. I've mentioned it elsewhere but the quieter charger also helps me avoid bringing further attention to the wheel. All that said, there are purely technical reasons for me to prefer the V14. I like the idea of it being designed and tested to tolerate water spray (though a longer-term and independent assessment of the IP rating is needed). I like the headlight better. I don't (yet) do seated riding and so a more compact wheel is preferable. I like the idea of being able to experiment with different shocks down the road. Hopefully Leaperkim and the Lynx will help push the industry toward reducing weight wherever possible. It seems the ability to tolerate a Hall sensor failure without a high speed cutout is making its way to other brands (I forget which other wheel added this feature). And a 14" rim seems to be better for stability (despite the wobble issues that people seem to be having on the Lynx).

Similar experience here. Updated firmware, charged the wheel from about 80% to full with the OEM charger, nothing out of the ordinary happened.

The spin-kill mode on the V14 is baffling. The manual says pressing the on/off button twice rapidly brings the wheel into "P mode" (park mode?). You'd think raising the wheel to level again would exit P mode, but it doesn't. Pressing the on/off switch twice rapidly again doesn't work. The only way I could find to exit P mode is to turn the wheel off and then back on again. Seems kind of pointless. Edit: @Kmil, I see you posted some info on how to get out of P mode in another thread. I'll give that a try.

@Unventor, I'm happy to hear that your knee pain is lessening and you are getting used to the wider stance. I've been on the V14 four times now and the wider stance feels natural to me as well. It took a while to get back out there as I damaged my ankle badly on the first ride. That is mostly healed now. I'm curious to hear your handle solution as I haven't quite figured out a stable point to put my helmet while trollying. However, I realized a benefit to the flat top today in that you basically have a convenient place to sit anywhere you stop. Never having mounted a seat on the V11, I didn't know what I was missing. Nice to hear you have trust in the new wheel! I wonder what the typical breaking-in time is for a new EUC to be fully confident. When first learning, I had read that you need 1000km before exiting the learning stage. Hopefully moving over to a new wheel can be done with less time / distance.

Today I took my first ride on the V14 and thought this might be a good place to put some first impressions. It was a humbling experience. Coming from a V11, and that being the only wheel I've ever ridden, the V14 is going to take some adjusting to. I don't do any tricks, jumps, etc. but I am comfortable riding the V11 up to its top speed, some mild carving, dropping off of curbs. No stairs, jumps, backwards riding, etc. The V14 immediately seemed heavy and wide to me. On the first mounting, I dropped the wheel after about 5-10 ft. and clipped my ankle pretty good with the right pedal. Having only ever been on one other wheel, a lot of muscle memory needs to be retrained. I instinctively grab for the scorpion-tail handle of the V11 and have trouble getting the V14 back under control. I got back up on the V14 and noticed it is top-heavy compared to the V11. That plus the tire profile (on the 2nd-batch off-road tire) that has a wider, flat center region and then curves off at the sides (more like a |_| than a U), I'm able to ride it straight but it quickly starts tipping over on me when attempting tighter turns or carving. Some of that effect may also be due to the V14's smaller tire diameter. I will take it slow and re-learn all of my maneuvers. The sides of V14 dig into my calves more than the V11, which tapers in more at the top of the wheel. This is something I think I should get used to after putting more time in on the wheel, but will see how it goes. The default suspension feels good so far, much smoother than my V11 (which I have put off on lubing for a while), though I am probably a heavier rider than average. The V14 may be a more powerful wheel than the V11, but I wouldn't know based on one ride. Things are going slowly so far and I am uneasy tapping into any of the V14's abilities. I will go back to wearing ankle protection and start over on building skills and confidence. I'll also need to build up strength to better manage the increased wheel weight. Just as a bit of context, I wanted to move up from the V11 to gain more power reserve, better suspension, safer battery tech, and better waterproofing. Due to the current market trends this unfortunately comes at the cost of higher overall weight. Range isn't very important to me so if a similar wheel came out that sacrificed some battery capacity (and offered a thinner profile), that would be preferable. Still, the V14 seems like it will be a solid platform to grow into.

If someone made a low-rise trials boot, that might be very interesting for EUC use. Flexibility, flat sole, impact and abrasion resistance. Though maybe the flexibility comes at the expense of ankle protection. What's kept me from trying them is that they may interfere with knee/shin guards, and so far my current moto shoes have been good enough.

@Unventor, how did the stance feel going from V11 to V14? Is it noticeably wider, and did you have any issues with that? Also, how was the stability going down to the smaller wheel diameter? Agreed the V11 handle is very practical and sturdy, both of which sound to be lost going to the V14. Regarding the charger, I don't mind if the wheel charges slowly so long as the charger is silent, and feel better having the wheel close by or within eyesight while charging. Supervising a wheel connected to a noisy charger would be irritating. Ideally we could get a configurable charger that could switch between slow/quiet and fast/loud, and perhaps something in between to charge a bit faster when out and about but avoid tripping circuit breakers.