Sai Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 3 hours ago, Solosmooth said: Just picked up my Sherman from FedEx it comes w firmware 4.32 reported by EUC World / Darkness Bot 1056. It came w street tire. Jason is sending me the knobby tire. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mphz5A66S3mVHttZiPDtvIr5d9_IY3zC/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mk0MF91mljS8xmyQm0TJCRtRXTlNmFXB/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MuatBope0lKD506EmahzJCnQHnDedw1v/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N1BmHYkA8L1ZxWaMKERBi2a799dgNoch/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N182IbR3qdteWtrcP1pOpEVg9Z3nwh7Y/view?usp=drivesdk Hi there, what is the free wheel spin for that firmware please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solosmooth Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 Free spin 63 mph 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLRocketMan Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 I just received mine. Also with the wrong tire! What the hell? Months of waiting for the wrong tire... We all know what it takes to change it:( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adel Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 13 minutes ago, FLRocketMan said: I just received mine. Also with the wrong tire! What the hell? Months of waiting for the wrong tire... We all know what it takes to change it:( I'm surprised Ewheels doesn't do any pre-shipping inspection, it would have caught this and other issues so that customers don't get bad surprise when they receive their new EUCs. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brockj Posted December 1, 2020 Author Share Posted December 1, 2020 On 11/30/2020 at 2:16 AM, Ferreal said: Such an awesome, powerful wheel. I love soft mode, it makes accelerating and stopping a lot easier. I don’t mind the pedal dip, it helps with turning IMO. The weight of the wheel really bothered me at first but I’m slowing getting used to it. The turn dip does seem intentional, to help make the turn tighter. It will just take some adjustment to riding style, which is fine, there are always Medium/Strong modes. To be fair, I didn't made any wide turns at speed in soft mode, mostly the tight turns at slow speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post houseofjob Posted December 1, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 1, 2020 (edited) On 11/30/2020 at 4:25 AM, brockj said: Speaking of pedal dipping on turns, I thought I should say more since there is curiosity about these firmware differences. I only felt surprised by it on Soft. It feels like a Veteran engineer had a quirky idea and it became Soft mode. It may be fun to mess with at low speeds sometime. I feel no dipping on Strong and just a tiny, helpful dip on Medium. Quirky [new] idea? Hardly. If you go back to the early Solowheel days earlier this decade, or even as late as the MSV3 circa 2017(?), you would know true Soft mode is not new; it's been there since the inception AFAIK. The minority of old mainstays like myself prefer soft mode on All speeds, All everything, if you learn to leverage your body angles, not staying only flat-footed on the pedals, ie. one heel up at a time, contrary to the newer rider prevailing opinions that dip is a defect, which it most certainly is not. On 11/30/2020 at 5:16 AM, Ferreal said: Such an awesome, powerful wheel. I love soft mode, it makes accelerating and stopping a lot easier. I don’t mind the pedal dip, it helps with turning IMO. The weight of the wheel really bothered me at first but I’m slowing getting used to it. Yup. I actually mind the wheels that have no pedal dip: everything you can do to get some English on the pedals and overall lean, without resorting to artificial accoutrements such as pads, is a huge plus IMHO, down to soft mode pedal dip (or swing rather) and body / foot positioning, not being flat-footed and stationary while riding, being dynamic to maximize lean force. The more you get your heel positioning wide and away from the wheel body, ie. the less you hug, is when the "weight" of the wheel no longer matters, along with the mistaken perception of a bigger EUC's "turning radius", which also goes away with heels wide. Edited December 1, 2020 by houseofjob 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solosmooth Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 (edited) Just did a 20 mile test run on the street tire Medium mode. Turning is actually better than I expected. Able to handle the wheel pretty well at slow speeds. I'm getting some wobbles above 30mph but I'm still able to control the wheel. My current psi is 30 my weight is 220lb. Not sure if I should go lower around 28 psi? After 16 miles my battery lowered 1 bar. NICE!! I tilted the wheel back by 2. Didn't really noticed any pedal dip. Edited December 1, 2020 by Solosmooth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brockj Posted December 1, 2020 Author Share Posted December 1, 2020 1 hour ago, houseofjob said: Quirky [new] idea? Hardly. If you go back to the early Solowheel days earlier this decade, or even as late as the MSV3 circa 2017(?), you would know true Soft mode is not new; it's been there since the inception AFAIK. The minority of old mainstays like myself prefer soft mode on All speeds, All everything, ... That is really good to know. Thank you! 1 hour ago, houseofjob said: ... if you learn to leverage your body angles, not staying only flat-footed on the pedals, ie. one heel up at a time, contrary to the newer rider prevailing opinions that dip is a defect, which it most certainly is not. 1 hour ago, houseofjob said: I actually mind the wheels that have no pedal dip: everything you can do to get some English on the pedals and overall lean, without resorting to artificial accoutrements such as pads, is a huge plus IMHO, down to soft mode pedal dip (or swing rather) and body / foot positioning, not being flat-footed and stationary while riding, being dynamic to maximize lean force. The more you get your heel positioning wide and away from the wheel body, ie. the less you hug, is when the "weight" of the wheel no longer matters, along with the mistaken perception of a bigger EUC's "turning radius", which also goes away with heels wide. Most of this describes my preferred riding style, albeit with KS "Hard". I have recently been trying different power pads and they all bother me. If I can't dance on the wheel, what's the point? I'm excited to give Soft another chance now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post houseofjob Posted December 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 2, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, brockj said: That is really good to know. Thank you! Most of this describes my preferred riding style, albeit with KS "Hard". Sure~ FWIW, true brick wall hard mode for EUCs has been more of a recent norm coming into the recent generation of 2kW and + motor wheels (obviously there are outliers like the early Ninebots and InMotions). It's much easier for an EUC developer to program the mode responses softer since the force lean v motor power demanded is spread out across a longer pedal swing motion, thus not approaching the overpower threshold as quickly as in the hard mode scenario where the lean response is concatenated in a smaller rock-stiff motionless pedal range. And KS Hard mode FYI is, in large, more of a "harder Medium" mode when compared to all other EUC mode response ranges. In large, their lineage is to tune and design wheels more for tricks, as evidenced by most of their wheels being fairly symmetrical, having relatively flat tops to step on, and their modes also being more rubbery and symmetrical for forward lean v back brake (in contrast, Gotway and Veteran modes are not symmetrical in the pendulum range of motions at all, having different responses for each stage of the swing in a manner that lends itself to forward motion, not pendulum tricks). 3 hours ago, brockj said: I have recently been trying different power pads and they all bother me. If I can't dance on the wheel, what's the point? I'm excited to give Soft another chance now. While I'm not against pads (hey, ride however way you want), I AM against the notion that you cannot ride a wheel efficiently without artificial appendages such as pads (riders have been riding EUCs well before this recent pad trend just fine). It's a quick band-aid fix to the lean/torque learning issue really. But it stunts you from really learning your lean and leverage angles on a wheel, ie. how to manipulate and angle the wheel to suit you, instead of you being manipulated by the wheel. If you do go down the Soft mode rabbit hole, I would recommend taking it one heel lifted foot at a time, and aiming to get the wheel to start leaning one side, then the other, by twisting it that way via weight emphasis on left heel + right ball/toe on the pedals, then switch. Edited December 2, 2020 by houseofjob 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferreal Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 18 hours ago, houseofjob said: Yup. I actually mind the wheels that have no pedal dip: everything you can do to get some English on the pedals and overall lean, without resorting to artificial accoutrements such as pads, is a huge plus IMHO, down to soft mode pedal dip (or swing rather) and body / foot positioning, not being flat-footed and stationary while riding, being dynamic to maximize lean force. The more you get your heel positioning wide and away from the wheel body, ie. the less you hug, is when the "weight" of the wheel no longer matters, along with the mistaken perception of a bigger EUC's "turning radius", which also goes away with heels wide. Thank you for the advice. I will definitely give it a try. My veteran’s tire was not aligned at all, I tried to center it but I was not happy with results. I found a bicycle shop that was willing to work on an euc and I just got it back last night. Looking at the line on the side of the tire it doesn’t look aligned at all. I rode it for about 5 minutes last night and it looks as straight as it can be. It also feels planted and just wants to go straight. I will take it for a longer ride during my lunch break today. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gon2fast Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Just received my Sherman with the knobby tire! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solosmooth Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Finally found time to swap my street tire to knobby and boy what a beauty this knobby tire is. LOVE IT!! The knobby tire rides like a dream above 30mph Wow!! I was getting a lot of wobbles w street tire. Before https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QuWlZQkwmkmuUvlKynL5UU3cUrRcpnwS/view?usp=drivesdk After https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QxcVXguMMTJPBvp4TpiAZc68zaHKMy0w/view?usp=drivesdk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adel Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Solosmooth said: Finally found time to swap my street tire to knobby and boy what a beauty this knobby tire is. LOVE IT!! The knobby tire rides like a dream above 30mph Wow!! I was getting a lot of wobbles w street tire. Before https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QuWlZQkwmkmuUvlKynL5UU3cUrRcpnwS/view?usp=drivesdk After https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QxcVXguMMTJPBvp4TpiAZc68zaHKMy0w/view?usp=drivesdk How tough was it to change the tire. Did you have to disconnect the motor from the board or is there another way to change the tire by just splitting the shell. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solosmooth Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 (edited) Working on the sherman was a pleasure not too bad. You have to disconnect the 3 motor wires and another which is the sensor wire i believe. Removed the metal bars Disconnected the batteries Disconnected 4 wires from the board. The sensor wire is very delicate be careful when removing motor from shell and putting back in shell. Make sure the air is out of tire when trying to remove from shell. The hardest part was removing the street tire from rim. I damaged the tube when I was removing the street tire. Lucky for me I had a spare tube which I got from Jason. when installing the knobby tire, the tire spoons weren't necessary. I did it by hand. Splitting the shell was not necessary. I bought steel tire spoons from Amazon which helped me alot!! Edited December 10, 2020 by Solosmooth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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