Posts made by Lia

While chasing the sun last night I had an opportunity to hide the board in a panorama. Good luck!

It's not super hard but like, I wanted to bring this little game back.

@wheelwizard "Step 2. Swear at tyre until it comes off" Aha preach! The only tire I didn't have to is the big burris BTG 12x8 😅
Loving the ride! We need to meetup for a ride at some point. I've re-added Northants back into my usual loops ^-^

Seconding the tire spoons. I never valued them till I had to pop an enduro off a superflux and may have invented new swears till I caved and printed the spoons to get it off.

I managed to get back out and finish the loop while revisiting what caused me to fall.

Some kinda shoddy trench filling :/ hard to get a good pic as there were too many cars to take a pic of the actual spot but despite how poorly it came out on camera there was a section towards the edge on the left lane that sunk quite a bit.

My best guess is I got air in the while then bounced off the lip on the other side and bonked, sending me up off the pads. There’s a white streak after the trenching that must have been my board scraping. What remnants of my knee are long washed away in the rain.

Bandage off. It's proper mingin under there but healing fine. I'll spare y'all of the picture I took of it freshly peeled back 😅 At least that's one more bit of skin I won't have to shave anymore!

@Puzz360 I always mess up the left arm too. Just the nature of it being the leading arm lol. Just a ickle wickle graze though this time so no complaints here. Makes me feel like a real skater with all the scrapes 💅 Gotta work on my ragdolling though so I take more superficial damage and less... flesh woundy types.

@Lemur Yeah I'm pretty lucky it wasn't something like a break. That'd really mess up my ride vibes moving forward. Would tie me down to living vicariously through you all instead.

@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 😅

@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.

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.

@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.

@wheelwizard It really was. I completely detoured to get a good vantage point for it ^-^

A sucker for a good sunset 🥰

Found a new route today to get out from one town and to a neighboring city. Tried it out and got some pics. The majority of it was following a towpath along a canal. Here's the best ones 🥰

Beginning the canal stretch of the journey Stoke Bruerne. Pretty village although not really a fun place to be so I don't stick around long.

A common threat on canals and beside a lot of farmers fields is blackthorn bushes. The bushes are fine, it's the clipping. Lazy trimming ends up leaving loads of massive thorns that can be like 2cm long just laying like spike strips. On 3rd party tires these will just cleanly go through the tire. Thankfully I'm still rolling stock rubber so it just ignores even these evil thorns. That said... can't be mad, view is still beautiful.

Bank gets slimmer and path gets less defined in a lot of spots. Not nearly the worst spot but a few later on were barely traversable safely on foot so riding was out of the question. Definitely have to scrub this route from the planned route with some of the other women I was planning >.>

Another pretty little village. Ended up chilling here chatting to a chap moored up for a bit about things. Nice guy and had a cat that wanted cuddles so was well worth the trip.

This was atop of an aqueduct entering the edges of Milton Keynes. Very pretty

So I made it into MK. No pics to share since it's not a super picturesque place at least where I ended up.

@puzz360 Aha right? Do like a good challenge.
Makes me confident I can do the same to my old XR that is bound to be in no better condition 😅

UPDATE!
It works! The bearings unfortunately did need replacing in the end. Just too far gone sadly despite getting them spinning freely and smoothly. It did however need the hall sensors replacing too but other than that it's happy.

So yes, turns out a motor as rusty as that can be restored.
That is of course if you're willing to spend hours with penetrating fluids, ultra fine abrasive scrubs and a bin full of rags.

Spring is round the corner!

Saw dome geese fly overhead last night which is usually a good indication the weather is going to be good again 🥰

@puzz360 Looks like a shockingly nice day for winter!
Did you stop at the pub there? Any good or just chilling with Paddington 😊

@rob-s It may be a bit of a tricky repair to pull the thermistors from the pack but if you’re up for it those should work fine on a pint-x. It’s a fairly basic 10k thermistor so not hard to find alternatives for if the one mentioned isn’t easy to get where you are.

Regarding getting inside the battery Mario did a teardown of a 3rd party battery that isn’t too dissimilar in structure that may help you in your journey.

Best of luck with the repair :)

@LOAFFETTE The cable swap was mint! Looks intimidating at first but I guess if you defo have the right pinout then it’s just a case of patience and heat.

@Sirgu I went with some generic bearing grease on Amazon as I didn’t have a whole lot of time left to wait for any specialist grease for the specific application. Afaik for this use case it’s mostly about keeping water out so the thicker stuff seemed appropriate. High speed grease maybe if you wanna ensure no performance loss since normal greases increase the rolling resistance a fair bit once packed well.

@lemur Duuuude I remember this thing. It’s on Instructables btw if you wanna trip down memory lane. Thing was sick!
https://www.instructables.com/Self-balancing-one-wheeled-electric-skateboard/