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I believe in the first 1 min of the video he says its 3"

FWIW the D30 material is the same material used in the Demon Flexmeters that many of us are wearing.

Can't you just turn the wheel perpendicular to the slope before lifting it?

That resolution to not give in to new wheel temptation is already gone and new wheels haven't even been released yet!

Saturday was great fun with @Marty Backe and the SF crew! We decided to run all the wheels onto the beach with the Z10 to see if it could prove its superiority with the fat tire. This was what we ended up with...

My Mten3 tire (probably tube?) has a leak that slime doesn't fix. It sort of holds pressure overnight but when I tried to ride it, it was effectively flat after about 1 mile after which I had to carry it the rest of the way. I don't have a lot of tools or place to work here (in a tiny studio apartment atm). What are my best options for fixing it?

I just wanted to chime in here in wishing for a swift and full recovery @Rehab1. I actually got a speed wobble on my Mten3 today. I've been riding it a lot more on account of my KS16s rim issues. While I did get the rim somewhat straightened and I have ridden it at least 20 miles at full speed over varied terrain so I know it is usable - it feels like I'm riding a Gotway - it could decide to quit at any time. j/k. sorta. Anyway since I've been riding the Mten3 quite a bit I have also started riding it in the street at high speeds for short distances. Today I got a pretty severe speed wobble while going maybe 18-19 mph. I didn't hit any noticeable bumps and the area I was on was fairly flat and level. I just started to wobble like crazy. Fortunately, I managed to get it under control but I suppose it could easily have thrown me too. It just reminded me of this thread so I thought I'd put this here since it seems to be the de facto 'speed wobble' thread. Unfortunately I don't know what caused it so this isn't very constructive except to say it happened to me too without hitting anything. So I do believe it is possible.

I might be tempted to get a Z10 so I can round out my wheel stable. I already have a kingsong and gotway wheel, I am missing a ninebot to round out my collection. I would then have one from each of the current major modern manufacturers.

I realized I forgot to move a few items out of the fridge so I went back and grabbed the stuff from the freezer and rode back with it. I also went to return the key and forgot one of the keys so I had to go back to get the key and then back... so a lot of trips.

There are some really huge potholes on McAllister going down the hill. It was dark so I decided to stick to the sidewalk since I wasn't positive I had memorized where all the giant potholes were. It turned out there was a raised section of sidewalk pushed up by a tree root at least a few inches that I couldn't see very well due to all the leaves on the ground. I didn't realize it until the last moment and tried to jump it. I think I might have done better by trying to emergency stop which may have lead me to roll over it ungracefully but without damaging my rim. I'm actually not positive if it was golden gate or mcallister with the sidewalk ambush though as I took both throughout the night (I was moving so I went back and forth a couple times).

I'm probably going to try to straighten it myself. If that doesn't work - time to decide between an ACM2 and Tesla! This is forcing me to ride my mten3 more anyway which has been a little neglected. The accident that caused the damage was avoidable too. I was going down a hill pretty fast and saw this giant raised crack in the road. I've been practicing hopping over bumps and cracks and tried to jump it rather than slow down. I didn't get enough elevation and clipped the top of it at high speed and went flying. Even so, I almost controlled the landing but ended up in a controlled faceplant (class 2 according to the other thread...). Thank god for the flexmeter wristguards. I fully used my hands to brace my fall trusting the wristguards to work. Wrists are completely uninjured despite bearing the brunt of the fall. Also, I didn't notice the sound/feeling right away after that incident so it actually could have been from one of my jumps later. I hop off curbs all the time so maybe it warped the rim a little and then me hopping off curbs a few times bent it out further until it looked like the picture above (there is another smaller bend on the opposite side of the wheel right under the valve. In any case I'll try fixing it tomorrow, thanks for the advice!

So I had an unfortunate visit with the pavement today and the crack I hit was big enough and I was going fast enough that I have bent the rim on the wheel. It has a rhythmic thumping feel now as I ride around although it is probably not audible to others. I can just feel it as I ride. Does anyone know: 1) How hard it is to fix this? 2) How dangerous it is to ride on it like this? Maybe this just means I need to buy a new wheel???

I'm not sure there is enough black in this outfit, you probably should wear some black gloves just so nobody accidentally mistakes you for a person.

Yep, I've been on the fence on what wheel to get next but I'm waiting out this new crop to see what happens with the Z, KS-18L, and whatever other cool stuff comes up (maybe new Msuper?). CES should hopefully bring us new info.

I think people are worried about an edge case (that probably would never happen on a ninebot) where you are close to the wheel's maximum speed and you accelerate past it quickly and the wheel tries to tiltback but no longer has enough reserve power to tilt you back. It then shuts down because that attempt to tiltback pushed it over the edge into cutoff. Now arguably if you were that close to the edge you are asking for it anyway but it is possible that you could be saved from a cutout if you did not have tiltback on in that scenario.