chopsywa

I agree with you 100%. I am the same. 25 year old mind in a 62 year old body. I have a Kingsong S22 Pro. I am not worried about it breaking physically as I will only get to about 20% of the loading (if that) of what all the daredevils do, but I do worry when I am doing 50km/h+ that it might just say "goodnight nurse" and drop me face first. I never buy first run wheels. I have had my eye on the V14 for a while, but it will be a year before I buy one if I do. I sort of think I will stick to 14" rims as you can buy "proper" tyres for them easily and the Lynx looks pretty nice. I know Kingsong and Inmotion (and Veteran?) make better quality wheels than Begode, but I think the reality is that they make less worse quality wheels. I have stripped my S22 down and rebuilt the suspension with new rollers, suspension linkage pins, etc and it's gone from being squeaky and clunky to buttery smooth on the suspension, with a decent (Shinko 241) tyre. I've come to the conclusion that with a lot of these things, the design is good, but the execution is poor. Don't give up though until you just can't do it any more.

I think the original pro sliders are not fit for purpose and KS should be sending them to anyone with a S22 Pro who asks free of charge. My S22 is only 3 months old with the older style rollers and after 1 offroad stint (not heavy) and 1100km, the rollers are all worn on the sides, except for 10 rollers I swapped out at 500km. These were my own design, printed in TPU 95A solid and profiled to the inside of the channel. These wear well, but there is obvious side load. I spent a few days designing a new slider rail in CAD with 2 of the rollers rotated 90 degrees axially, to do the same thing that KS have done. One at the top of the motor frame and one at the bottom. The only thing that stopped me proceeding was the cost of getting the CNC work done. I then saw these new sliders, which validates my concern that they were never right and that KS should just give them out to current Pro owners. This is what my sliders looked like mocked up in plastic. There are two different iterations of TPU rollers. The dirty ones have survived 500km, but they had too much movement on the bearing with the side load. The newest iteration are printed with the bearing inserted part way through so they are fully encapsulated. Thanks to @Julianjc84 for his input, with this modification.

I'd suggest you just set the compression as soft as you like, then set the rebound back slow enough so when you push it down it doesn't bounce several times at the top when it comes back up. This is if you want a soft ride without pogo stick over bumps. I am quite heavy, but I like a soft ride. I make the compression a bit harder on trails. This might be totally wrong, but it feels good to me.

Your machining is a thing of beauty.

@Julianjc84is working on a universal pedal project. He might be able to help you.

Plenty of V11 riders up here in Perth. I am heading down to Denmark next month for a long weekend. If I can fit in my V11, I could come with you for a ride sometime. Come on up to Perth for a ride. We do group rides on Wednesday nights and often ad hoc rides on weekends. Mark

Same happened to me once recently in latest software 1.2.22. I had ridden for a few minutes and was about to take off on a group ride and I got severe tilt back, red light and wheel saying "repair". A minute later it leveled up, light went off and it was fine. Diagnostics came up ok and batteries were the same voltage. I did a 30km ride without incident. Never happened since, but it makes me nervous. I've been face planted by a failed control board once before.

No probs and I guess if someone wants to knock a few out and make a few bucks to sell them it's fine by me.

You can get someone to print it for you. Just give them the file.

Yep. Here is my well used one.

Here you go guys. If you have a 3d printer this little tool will tighten and remove your V11 valve covers. Valve-tool.stl

There's a ride tonight from the Camfield to the quarter acre and back. Be at the Camfield around 6. I'll be there on my V11. There will be 1 or 2 Shermans and maybe a MSP. Lots of esk8 and a scooter or two.

Sure Michael. What is your Facebook name? We have a Messenger group. What area are you in?

I am riding in high 20s - low 30s and my temp never goes above 49.

Hey Kristian Why don't you come on a group ride Wednesday nights? City beach to Hillarys this week. Mark