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"Videos, Photos, Ride Reports"? Probably better to stay at "Videos". But I figured I'd mention this.

Good storytelling. I have little interest in a collection of random scenes of someone or people riding electric unicycles, be it for 2 minutes or 2 hours. Have good storytelling. Give it structure. Make it about a journey, a destination, a challenge. Even if it is just a 5 second intro text explaining what I'm about to see and what that means. Explain what you are doing (talk!). I want to hear your excitement and anticipation. And then do it and make me wonder how it will play out. In order for a video to be interesting, what is filmed must be interesting, but you must also convey that and why it is interesting (to you) in your video. Mention something, foreshadow what is coming, so the viewer gets a reward when he sees that something later when it happens. Specifically for any exploration type ride, I want to know how far it is, I want to hear your route explained and to know what you expect on the route and what it means to you (never mind "objective" facts that don't really matter to you), I want to see a progression, maybe even a map. Not at the end of the video. I want to experience the adventure along with you.

Some thoughts regarding a possible new subforum: Should it be specifically about Learning? Maybe "Learning to Ride and Advanced Tricks" or "Learning to Ride and Advanced Skills"? What I like about it is that its purpose is very clear and focused. Should it be specifically for new and prospective riders? Something that clearly says: New riders: go here! So both "learning to ride" and "what wheel should I get?" type posts can go there? These are often mixed into one posted topic anyways (but maybe this shouldn't be?). Someone asks what to get, then gets it and ask about learning and gear etc. Maybe "New Riders" or "Prospective and New Riders"? Maybe this would be best to get more people riding electric unicycles? Something other which is equally specific? Something other which is a bit more open-ended? Trying to find some clarity what would be best.

Maybe a "No comment Video Thread" to go along with the normal "Video Thread"? This way nobody loses anything. And people who want to see "every" video will manage to check two threads instead of one.

@Aneta banned, thread closed. Sorry @Mortal Coil. Sorry everyone who commented here. But this was never a real discussion anyways. Feel free to start a new topic, if needed. The point of this forum is to offer a welcoming and inviting space where people can discuss electric unicycles. If you do anything that may be counter to that, please stop. Acting, reacting, whatever. Do not publicly talk about other things if doing so might put off existing and (prospective) new members by creating negativity and a bad discussion culture. If in the future you ever suspect a certain person has come back, do not publicly engage this person. Report the suspicious post, or write a private message to any of the active site staff (but a report is better). Do not engage said person outside of this forum, ever. Do us moderators a favor here! Enjoy talking about electric unicycles (or whatever you may call them). This is what the forum is all about.

Gotway boss left Kingsong, not Rockwheel, as far as I have heard.

Any given motor has a maximum speed (no torque speed) that only depends on the voltage supplied to it. At a certain fixed percentage (dare we assume it is 80%?) of this max speed, the "80% alarm" beeps appear. So it is purely a speed alarm, with the beep speed falling as the voltage (= battery charge) drops. For the MSX 84V, it's 58kph at 100% battery, going down to 45kph at 10% battery. (In addition and independently, at 15% the low-battery beeps start.) Current plays no role. See here, straight from the horse's mouth.

The opposite is true. We're discussing this as well at the moment (inspired by the recent discussions like the ones you quoted), and your opinions greatly help! Every initiative needs all the momentum it can get if we don't want to miss out on a good idea. As far as I'm concerned (you get my personal opinion whether you want it or not), my reply to your topic is simply a big fat "Yes!!" (honorable mention goes to @Gasmantle) The Video Thread can continue as a video index thread where no discussion is allowed and you can only post a short description, a video embed, and a link to the respective topic about the video, for example. People can see "every" video without distractions by checking this one thread and then enjoy all the discussion the want by following the links to the topics in the "Videos" subforum.

Just practice, doesn't matter how, just follow your intuition on what you should do and try. And make sure you enjoy it - you get this only once in life, and learning to ride is one of the best parts of EUCing. Scratches give your wheel character and an identity, and will allow you to find it on a group ride if you put it somewhere with a bunch of other wheels.

Some offtopic posts have been moved here.

Not worth it. You would need a new board and new batteries* (buying batteries separately is almost as expensive as buying the entire wheel). Selling the 84V and buying a 100V makes much more sense because it saves you a lot of money and work. *update because of thread revival: you can mod a 84V battery into a 100V battery if you absolutely want, but it's still a lot of work and you still need a new 100V board.

Picture of the MSPro board from the post above: Pictures of a 100V Nikola board, courtesy of @EcoDrift. Not sure how many different 100V boards there are. The MSPro mosfet casings look different (smaller gap between them? They're further under the board). I wonder if they use different mosfets. Also the capacitors are bigger (literally, and 1000 mF instead of 560). I wonder if this means something.

Sure In addition, as the battery gets empty, the voltage it provides decreases from its maximum (e.g. 84V) to its minimum which is like 25% lower (e.g. 66V or 60V for a "84V" wheel). So a "fixed" voltage doesn't exist anyways.

How about the Nikola and 16X? How do they compare for "fat" people?

The right choice in my opinion. Everyone thinks they will never need to go faster than 20mph (I did). 90% of those people find out they were very wrong. 6 miles is like 20+ minutes with stops etc. That's no longer a "short" commute. You will probably enjoy a big, comfortable, forgiving tire for such a longer and regular daily ride. Doesn't have to be the 18XL, but you chose the right category of wheels.

Yes I know. I just get worried every time I hear "gloves" so better to be overly clear about this

No. But I didn't wear any gear at first (dumb/stubborn/thoughtless), and any gear I added was because of a fall where I realized I really should have had that piece of gear. First minor very low speed fall ruined my cloth winter gloves. Without gloves (in summer), my hands might have been a bit torn on the gravelly ground. Then I realized wrist guards are a good idea. Never again rode without them. Next fall was a bit worse (luckily also in winter the year after, so I only lost all of my clothing instead of a lot of skin) and I realized I needed knee guards (and upgraded my wrist guards, though the cheap ones worked super well, you could literally feel them cushioning the blow, and my palms would have been majorly f**ked up without them, maybe permanently). Then I figured I should add a full face helmet before I have a fall that would convince me I needed a helmet (which might end not so harmlessly). I was pretty lucky, could have gone worse. Once you're used to the gear, you'll feel naked and unsafe without it. That's a positive. The important thing a about wrist protection for EUC riding is that the wrist guards must slide along on the ground unimpeded if you have a fall. As soon as you land on your hands, they are supposed to slip forward and barely catch your weight. So if your "gloves" don't slide and don't have plastic slide plates, I would not recommend them. That's something to be aware of for EUC hand protectors of any kind: they must easily slide on the ground (plastic slide plates). Wrist protection is not about protecting your wrist from bending and breaking. You don't fall like this in a EUC crash (unlike in snowboarding, for example). EUC crashes are mostly doing a superman forward onto the ground. For EUCs, wrist protection is about two things. Impact protection, to prevent the impact shock from travelling along your arm into your shoulder and break/hurt your delicate shoulder (the by far worst consequences of pretty much every major crash reported on this forum were nasty shoulder injuries!) or arm. That's why they need to slide instead of rapidly stop and ram your arm into your body, which would be seriously counter productive at 20+ mph. The other thing is abrasion (do not underestimate abrasion). After the impact, the wrist guards need to prevent your palms from being grated off by the ground. Cloth would still work, but doesn't slide. Impact and abrasion are the two factors for every piece of EUC protective gear you consider. It matters differently for different pieces. Helmet is mostly about impact (head and face must hit helmet, not ground). Knee guards are mostly about abrasion (which here means: they must not slide off your knee while you still slide along on the ground!). Etc. You don't have to use one, but it would be a very sensible choice to wear it, and not extreme at all. Not necessarily during learning (you can get away with nothing or wrist guards only), but later. This is my all time favorite EUC video ever. It is a fantastic example of proper knee guards working well (and great crash technique from a pro rider), and you can gleam any information you need about knee protection from 10 seconds of video (simply imagine what would have happened without). Maybe it convinces you that knee guards are indeed a good idea (they are!). About 10 seconds into the video... Please don't be scared off by these descriptions. It is entirely possible you will never have a fall that is worse than you running off the wheel. But you can't be 100% sure and don't control the circumstances 100%, which is what protective gear is for. Contingency planning, nothing more. But it is unintuitive and very hard without experience to judge the possible dangers of a EUC crash, so plan as much as you like (= no such thing as too much gear).

Exact same motor. Just driven at different voltages. For example, the 84V and 100V Monster, MSX, Nikola use exactly the same motor, the one motor Gotway uses for all their current 16 inch and bigger wheels (not sure if the Tesla motor is the same or an older revision of their "one" motor). Older 84V EUCs had ebike motors that had 60V printed on them. So motors do not need to be voltage-specific. In the end, it's just a hunk of metal that gets connected to a power source. As long as nothing melts or fries, it works.

That's exactly what is so wonderful about EUCs! Just so intuitive to ride, and so easy to use everywhere. Haha, that's exactly what everyone thinks when they lift their first wheel out of the box and then try to stand on it. Nice! Sorry if I sound like a broken record, but never ride without wrist guards; and a (full face) helmet and knee guards are pretty much the minimum gear for higher speed.

Cool! I don't think you will regret upgrading Get the EUC Bodyguard for the 18XL (can be had on roll.nz and ewheels.com) or pad your wheel up very well before ever going outside (1st ride outdoors is always the worst for scratches!) and you don't have to worry about scratching or damaging your nice expensive new wheel in the learning phase. And wear the appropriate protective gear for such a powerful wheel. I don't think anything can go wrong other than damage to the wheel or you, and this is how you protect yourself against that. Looking forward to hear what you think of the EUC once you have one!

E+ to MSPro... wow, that is going to be quite the upgrade

It's the next msuper. He'd be crazy not to carry it.

My guess is that "MSPro" will be the final abbreviation people use. Or just "pro". Type @ and continue with the first few letters of the username. You'll get a dropdown to choose from. But I'm sure Jason was informed about this wheel before the general public was.