Hotdogging Does Indeed Reduce Range

[Marty Backe]

A Short Public Service Announcement

Have you just received a new beast of an EUC with 1600wh (or more) of bundled energy and find that you are experiencing much reduced range? Your fellow riders of similar beasts are able to go much further than you? You've become concerned that perhaps your wheel is defective and it needs to be returned?

Fear not. You have fallen prey to the The Big Boys Club Syndrome, where you have progressed from your first beginner wheel to a performance wheel.

What do you do with this new wheel? You hotdog it. Every time you start you lean hard and heavy to experience the thrill of the newfound power. There is no such thing as slow-down. No, break hard and fast.

But whoa, "I'm not getting the range that I'm expecting". I go on group rides with guys riding the same wheel as I have, but I'm Ubering home while they continue on their way. Time to call @Jason McNeil at EWheels to complain that maybe one of my battery packs is defective.

In all seriousness, I'm writing this because a local rider with his new Nikola was concerned that something was wrong with his new wheel. We went on a ride together where it was important to do proper battery management to get through the entire route. I knew he had these concerns. I was to maintain the proper pace (speed) to get through the 45-miles.

Just looking at how he was riding around the parking while we were prepping told me everything I needed to know. He was Hotdogging It 

So I established new rules for this ride. Easy starts and stops and no 30mph riding. What happened? This time he completed the ride with plenty of leftover capacity and was getting the same range as the rest of us.

Lessons learned for him and a saved call to Jason 

Edited December 18, 2019 by Marty Backe

[Dave U]

3 minutes ago, Marty Backe said:

He was Hotdogging It 

[FlyboyEUC]

Define hotdogging.

Nevermind, Google told me. It means to do tricks and show off.

Edited December 19, 2019 by Flyboy10

[FlyboyEUC]

This is hotdogging in action  

"I think my MSX is defective. I only went 15 miles before I ran out of usable battery" ~ A Hotdogger

Edited December 19, 2019 by Flyboy10

[Marty Backe]

10 minutes ago, Flyboy10 said:

This is hotdogging in action  

"I think my MSX is defective. I only went 15 miles before I ran out of usable battery" ~ A Hotdogger

Yep, you have the syndrome 

[RoadRunner]

2 hours ago, Marty Backe said:

He was Hotdogging It 

 

Man you’re cracking me up 

[FlyboyEUC]

Here @Marty Backe this is the same wheel with your style of riding. A conservative riding style yields in double the range. At least for gotways...

 

Edited December 19, 2019 by Flyboy10

[Rehab1]

11 hours ago, Flyboy10 said:

Define hotdogging.

 

 

[RoadRunner]

2 hours ago, Rehab1 said:

 

 

You forgot the Batman cape. 

[Rehab1]

36 minutes ago, RoadRunner said:

You forgot the Batman cape. 

Your wish is my command. Not just an ordinary cape but a badass one. 
 

 

Edited December 19, 2019 by Rehab1

[AtlasP]

I often refer to what you're calling "hotdogging" as riding "youtuber style" (or "wannabe youtuber style")--i.e. many PEV youtubers (EUC, esk8, whatever) tend to over- accel/decel/carve a lot as it looks more dynamic/'cool' in videos, and consequently you end up with a bunch of new riders who learned everything off youtube and ride like that and then b1tch about how all advertised ranges are bogus.

(Apologies to Marty who is a youtuber and doesn't do this, but I think he will understand/sympathize with what I mean.)

Edited December 22, 2019 by AtlasP