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Look where you are going, see everything ahead, always, every single second. Have some luck, because you can't look where you're going, see everything ahead, always, every single second

Get a travel adapter somewhere. Less patience required Great you're enjoying your new hobby (admittedly, it's hard not to).

Great follow up!! One can tell how agitated and frustrated you are by your "French" indeed! Such bad luck, a stupid pothole that you didn't see coming and just happen to hit instead of being a foot further left or right, with some destabilizing extra gravel for good measure, and then the unlucky bad fall itself. A combination of multiple unlikely dumb causes! If only you could go back 4 weeks with this information... I wouldn't blame yourself too much, though. It's not "Don't be stupid", it's more "Look where you are going, and don't have bad luck as well". (Exactly what caused my crash - with luckily only mostly harmless injuries - fucking rock in the middle of the wide ass path I just happened to hit, and just right when I didn't look for 3 seconds or I would have seen it) This is good news and bad news. Good news is, your crash wasn't rider error (if speed isn't seen as an error per se, but slower speed would probably still had you crash) or something wrong with our wheels that causes wobble. Bad news is, this is the classic "shit was in the way" that there really is no good recipe against, and once you lose your secure footing in a bump or slip or whatever, it's hard or impossible to recover. Wheels are just susceptible to that, and not much we can do Wear protection and pray

More Schiller.

I recently cleaned and opened my ACM (some small loose stuff in the shell, which turns out was a bit of broken off plastic thread due to the crashes on my snow ride) and figured, might as well try a winter/offroad tire while I'm at it. Here's how it looks. It's the standard Kenda thing in red. Feels like riding on a rough surface a bit, and it's definitely louder. I wonder how much it iinfluences the range. The rubber between the extrusions is thinner than on the standard tire, I hope that won't lead to easier punctures. Will see. Too bad I can't really ride because all week it's been around zero, icy rain/snow, wet, very unpleasant

Nice skillz indeed!

If you look at Marty's 18S mountain test videos, it can handle much more safely than just flat terrain at low speeds I'd say the KS S models are the only wheels atm that can actually be called trustworthy, and you can just use them wherever without worrying about sudden hardware failure in the back of your mind. While in fact sudden hardware failures are extremely rare, even with Gotways or Rockwheel, and this is more theoretical than a practical problem - the KS engineers actually did some thinking and design, vs. just reacting to problems and ignoring obvious flaws like paper thin cables.

KS18S - great electronics, good warnings and limits, and 8 parallel battery blocks give you maximum ability to produce current spikes when you need them (no overlean at low battery percentages or low battery temperatures). The same applies to the other KS S models (14D/S, 16S) - minus the battery thing, which isn't that big of a deal in practice.

25 miles, nice!

You don't have to tell me

Not my video. "The best way to learn, to get better, is to ride offroad on these things" - very true.

If you don't know Russian hardbass yet (pronounce with Russian accent), it's great! You can't not love the stuff. Search Youtube for hardbass, gopnik, GOP FM [ГОП FM], dj blyatman, xs project, hardbass school. "Boosted" versions are with better bass. -- Not hardbass, but cheap Russian techno - also nice.

That's hilarious!

I only go trough the ones that are not too deep to prevent exactly this possibility.

Ah, ok

I don't get it, sorry. Either I'm dumb or it's your medications Also, if you look too long at this picture, the perspective gives you a headache

It's blue!!!

This is a big one every manufacturer misses. Even Ninebot, who after 2 years of absence come out with a performance wheel, only slap their old, tiny 3 year old pedals on it. I'd say 22 cm is still too short. Pedals should be longer than your shoes, not shorter! The only reasons to possibly have them shorter is so the corners can't scratch in tight turns, or for looks. But make them as long and big as possible.

Schön! Gefühlte Rechtslage vs. tatsächliche. Wo wir grad beim Thema sind, wieso tun jetzt hier wieder alle so so, als ob es den Grosskopf nicht gäbe? Demnach sind EUCs keine Kraftfahrzeuge (sondern selbstbalancierende Fahrzeuge, die extra klassiert sind) und in D auch von sonst keine Gesetz überhaupt erfasst (das einzige mögliche, das u.a. die Segways regelt, gilt erst ab 2 Rädern). Hab ich was verpasst?

@Marty Backe Here you go. ACM going through icy puddles.

Ok, one joint venture (of some kind), two brands Cool.

Haha, at least one guy does believe Thank you. Video of what? I have a short video where I go along the path and there's some nice crunchyness from a puddle at the end. Is this what you want? Might take some time to upload with my very shitty upload speed... I'll see if it works. edit: 70 minutes or more. I actually have another video of the specific puddle in the photo, but this one crunches nicer (I can upload the other one too if you like) edit:

Immer noch viel zu kompliziert und einschränkend. Moped-Führerschein = kostet viel Geld und Zeit, und allen unter 16 wird das fahren verboten. Sollen wir jetzt allen Kinder und Jugendlichen, die schon fahren, das wieder verbieten? Versicherung - wieso nicht die allgemeine Haftpflicht wie für alles andere auch? Usw. Ganz einfach: wer ein Fahrrad fahren kann, kann auch ein EUC fahren. Gibt auch keinen Fahrrad-Führerschein. Die Notwendigkeit alles weiteren soll erst mal nachgewiesen werden - Rennräder können auch 60, schneller als man mit EUC je unterwegs sein wird, und da heult keiner rum. Macht keinen Sinn, wegen EUCs gross extra rumzutun, bloss weil ein Motor drin ist. Aber Deutschland eben... Regelungswut (ohne wissenschaftlich erwiesenen Nutzen, bloss weil irgendein Beamter, der sowas noch nie in echt gesehen hat, an seinem Schreibtisch "aber da könnte ja X passieren" denkt) UND Autoindustrie-Schwanzlutschen, was will man da erwarten

Of course, too long is not fun, but some variety for a few km is great. Slippery is fun. -- This is why I love this forum, makes me go out and ride when I normally wouldn't have. I visited the spot, expecting more mud and wetness. But i was mostly frozen. Nothing nicer than going on smooth, pristine snow only to suddenly get a crunching sound and realize you're going through a puddle with ice on top. Same mud spot like in the photo 2 posts above, but frozen now. So crunchy A few meters further. You can find the green arrow on the tree on the older photos, too. Hello, frozen puddle! No longer uncrunched ACM lies there for lighting, no spin out (but I had a few on frozen mud-ice). Looks fresh and pure. All the smooth stuff is frozen puddles, you can see the lots of water behind the path too. Crunchtastic! Also, horse riders again. I learned that Offroad riding in various conditions is just so much fun! My new phone does not make good photos at dusk I need @Rehab1-style spike pedals, once the grip paper stuff gets wet or stuck with snow, it's very slippery.

There's really nothing special to it. Maybe instead of mud run, one should call it a mud avoidance run, because where you actually ride there isn't too much mud, and that's kind of the challenge and fun in it - to see what you can get through. All you'd see is a guy balancing along a path through some muddy puddles and trying his best not to have to stop. Which is the trick - never stop. If you stop (or if you go through deeper mud that can push you off course or if your tire slips sideways on an incline) not only do you have to step into that crap or even run off, the wheel might also lose balance and do the Gotway dance right in the worst place (luckily, never happened) and you'd have to ride home on what looks like a ball of mud So you go into something and can't stop until you're out, and you're not exactly sure if you can - it's great! There's a similar path nearby, and it feels nice going through that dirthole without ever having to step off, with spotlessly clean shoes and pedals like you were never anywhere else but on pavement Here's some clarification where I did ride. Much of the other pictures are actually spots where the mud is too bad (too deep and no puddles or otherwise semi-solid ways through it). In the first picture, I think that's my tire track above the puddle where I left out the red path for a meter. As for video, right now it's below 0 and snowing. Maybe I'll do a quick run anyways one of these days, just to see how the place looks like now.