Razumpel Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 Hi, i only want to tell my first impressions of my brand new toy to you. Please excuse my bad english - but my schooltime is long ago. My euc-history is quite simple - i learned to ride on my first secondhand bought Airwheel X3 in the age of 50 With today 51 years i am surely not the youngest one in this forum. My Airwheel brings a lot of fun to me. Main area where i used it was our private court behind the house. Many Garages to hold on, and its great enough to ride great circles and go straight for the speedlimit. Some little tours into the woods... but not far. 10km range only. Only a Toy. For me - its too slow to ride some km's. On a electric-car-meeting in this spring i met a younger guy who rides a fat gotway with over 1500wh battery - and it goes fast like hell Till this moment i havent realized that there are faster and greater eucs as my Airwheel... For me it was just a toy to practice some skills... Than i joined this forum and began to read... Bad for my Wallet Last week i bought a KingSong KS18 with 1200W and a 680Wh Battery. My first impression (always compared with my X3) was : big and heavy. I took my new wheel home, charged and put my first feet on it... Luxurious feeling. Very good Pedals - quite comfortable. High between my legs... Very nice to handle. Dismout and you can easily grab the handelebar - cause its so high you dont have to reach far down. My first start was a little bit hesitantly - in comparison to my Airwheel, on this little X3 - i get on and it speeds up and i can balance perfectly. The KS18 behaves like a big-fat-mama... I leaned forward... it felt like my big-fat-mama first has to take in a deep breath... and than slowly began to roll forward... but than... Big-Fat-Mama shows me her qualities. It speeds up and 3secs later it beeps and beeps... Rookie-Protection. I hate it. Today after several longer rides through woods and along the near River Rhine... i am very glad with my KS18. It felt very comfortably - the Pedals are pretty. The behavior of it is exactly like you would expect it from a big-fat-mama. Always well disposed. Quick, but not hectic. Quick turns and fast forward or backward speed up is not the domain of big-fat-mama. But who will expect this from (my) big-fat-mama ? I dont. Take it as it is. Not for Tricks and not for small courts. Lean forward and ride some kilometers - take a breath with (it) her - when it speeds up... Take care with big-fat-mama If it reaches speed - its like a Lorry... look your way ahead, big-fat-mama takes her time to break... I have fun. The straight running characteristic is great. It climbes stones, roots and curbs without problems. Its fast. Heavy - but a well trained big-fat-mama. In my case with 60km range its breath is deep or long enough for me. Thank you for reading - this are only my first impressions of my Rookie-Mode-100km's... Today i will speed up my big-fat-mama !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodman Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 Grats on your new big fat mama...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingfelder Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 Grats, I'm glad you like it! Tell us more about your ride impressions sometime as you continue to see what it can do. Did you try the seat yet? This is one of my favorite riding videos: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abinder3 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 I hate the seat on my KS18AY with 1680wh battery; too uncomfortable. Allen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razumpel Posted May 10, 2017 Author Share Posted May 10, 2017 Hi again, @Dingfelder - thanks - its a very nice wheel... and no, i didnt try out the seat yet. But its no. 2 on my "to do list" @Goodman - thanks... the big-fat-mama is a little bit disappointed... She said "i'm not fat" I will try out the seat in the next days... i think it could be relaxing to seat a (little) while riding a longer distance... i will hold you up to date ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingfelder Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 7 hours ago, abinder3 said: I hate the seat on my KS18AY with 1680wh battery; too uncomfortable. Allen That's good to know too. I think I'm probably too tall for it to be comfortable. I wish the seat were higher, maybe thicker too, like on the Gotway monster and MSuper V3. The kingsong looks really minimal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kasenutty Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 I want to get myself a big fat mama, and maybe even a new EUC Congratulations on a beautiful wheel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetricUSA Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 On Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Dingfelder said: That's good to know too. I think I'm probably too tall for it to be comfortable. I wish the seat were higher, maybe thicker too, like on the Gotway monster and MSuper V3. The kingsong looks really minimal. You could always add a thicker cushion to the 'hard' seat...it is just a hollow plastic seat, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingfelder Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 36 minutes ago, MetricUSA said: You could always add a thicker cushion to the 'hard' seat...it is just a hollow plastic seat, no? Still on order, so I can't say for a couple of weeks yet. The videos and pics I've seen make it look like a solid hard rubber seat that slips tightly over the handle and doesn't go down the body for any appreciable distance. Anything additional put on might be hard to use unless it were attached rigidly to the seat. I wouldn't want to have my butt sliding around and possibly off the wheel if a booster didn't hold firm to the seat. Something that wrapped a hard vertical wall around both seat and booster, leaving them no ability to separate, might work. But anything too tall would start to provide a lot of leverage against the handle should one's weight shift, again possibly leading to separating from the wheel on, say, sharp braking or turns. There would probably need to be a more secure sort of attachment system to the wheel itself. Ian of speedyfeet had a five-minute video on the seat and got used to it, saying it would be fine for short periods. He didn't appear uncomfortable. I'm not sure how tall he is, but he's not chunky and supposedly weights about 200 pounds, so I'm thinking he's probably not far from 6 feet. So maybe the seat will work as-is for me? Guess I'll have to wait a bit to find out ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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