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@s-leon I'll probably reconsider not having knee pads. Issue is a lot of them I find super uncomfy and really distracting >.>
I get to peel off the bandaging tomorrow to clean and replace them so get to see the carnage 😅

Yikes! Glad it was relatively minor. Heal fast and heal well!

@lia Badass,maybe some Ibuprofrofen might be the ticket for a day or 2 if not just for getting a good nights rest

@wheelwizard I bounced back pretty quick thankfully. Went for a little spin earlier but defo feel my body aching a loooooot 😅
Defo could have been much worse. Helmet once again came in clutch and stopped yet another whack.

@lia hope you heal quickly and get back to riding soon, glad the injury's wern't any worse

Taken 20 mins before a spill I took earlier tonight 😅

Been a while since I took a spill and wow did the fates have one in mind for me.

(Trigger warning. Sorta graphic detail and a bit of blood)

Cruising back at 10PM in the cold after a spontaneous desire try out a new 50km route I just found. Anyway long story short, just like my hang time, I took a 25km/h slide that shredded my jeans and took a nasty dime sized hole into my knee. Maybe 5+mm deep just shy of the bone. No pics because it was dark and well the blood wasn't helping. Also... it's grim lmao.

However my helmet and wrist guards did their job as I ragdolled along the road like the muppet I am.
Taxi to home to drop off my gear then to A&E to make sure I wasn't just thugging out something more serious.

Lost enough skin on the knee that there's nothing to stitch (yippe, I hate stitches) so it'll take up to 3 weeks to heal from the bottom up. Hand was swollen but no fractures. Me and the nurse got a giggle out of how surprisingly fine I seemed despite the crater in my knee. Gotta love UK healthcare. Hadn't even sat down and was called to be seen. Took no more than 30 minutes to sanitize my wounds, pull the road and jeans from the hole, xray me and double check before sending me on my way with some replacement bandages and a a giggle with the staff.

Pic just after getting a fancy bandage. My blood knows no mercy and wants to get out. Got a gnarly and legit tear in the jeans so not a complete loss.

So anyway... do as I say not as I do. Wear pads!!!

@wheelwizard I haven't tried getting a GT tire off yet but I'm remembering my XR's Vega being a nightmare so the 6.5" GT won't be any more fun.

I still have the stock treaded that's about 800km from becoming a slick 😅 I might actually put another on or a performance treaded. As long as it's tough I'm happy.

Lemme know how that goes. I have a custom build with that monster 12x8 burris tire in the works.

@lia it's finally come to that time where I need to change as the enduro on my GT is knackered. Decided to go for the street pro 2 this time almost went back to FM but the thought of trying to get those sidewalls over the hub put me off as I remember trying to get the bloody thing off.

@martinlink Personally not aware of known temp issues with the XR platform. Do you have any high res pics of the bms just in case I can spot anything that looks a bit off?

Being 4209 there's quite a lot of options if it is the BMS that's faulty. Hoping your thermistor swap worked but if it is the BMS there's probably a good few people in a local ride group with a bunch just laying around since most swap them out when vescing and have no other use for them.

For other checks I'd try probing between ground and each one of the thermistor pins on the BMS while it's disconnected from everything. All should return a similar reading to eachother. If you find one way out of line then that's where to start looking by tracing back that one pin to a component like a cap that may have gone bad or been knocked at some point.