Posts made by Lia

@puzz360 Ws looking great! How are you finding the new ride style?

@wheelwizard Aha good eye. It is!
I don't usually adventure much through there anymore since there's always a surprising amount of fuzz in the area. But I felt a little adventurous that evening and decided to chance it.

Shame the weather is looking pants this weekend. I would've suggested a little group ride in the area.

@scabaa I tend to set off early and don't get back till the sun has completely set 😅 It was a mix. Big long converted railway to cycle track, ride around a reservoir and then a bit of mixed urban exploring later on before chugging along back home on mostly paved terrain. Charged up a few times between stops with a fast charger.

Just got done with a 123.6km ride. Best pic I got from the expedition 🥰

@scabaa Ah I see. I was hoping for regular outlets but that's probably never happening. Super cool you can just leave it like that without a worry.
I ride super lean so no backpack. Just the charger dangling off my hip from a carabiner in a lil bag with some misc bits alongside. Not sure I could pack the adapter 😅 Good shout though!

Personally would have preferred a HS but it's whatevs. She's got more range than my prior GT that's in retirement with the rest of the boards :3 Defo a good conversion especially if you can swap out the hypercore for a SF.

@Wheelwizard Different board. Built it from bits I acquired over time then used my Fungineer privilege's to get the missing bits I needed ^-^ Rides like a dream with just a few tweaks but I'll probably go over all the settings in vesc tool to make sure I'm not leaving anything on the table. So far it's just better than my GT was with the same battery. BTG seemingly making offroad less of a battery drain too which is nice.

@scabaa Oh wow there are just sockets around available to use?? That must be sooooo good for those rides. I'm still daisy chaining starbucks and McDonalds for reliable sockets here in middle England😭
Are the locals chill about you riding?

GT platform all the way. It's just better for putting power in safely. I'm using:

• Thor301
• GTFO BMS and headlights
• Purple anodized Superflux to GT rail axle blocks
• Superflux V2 stator and a V3 HT hub
• Thundercat BTGF tire
• WTF regular matte black rails
• Lowboy front footpad
• Kush wide retro purple rear footpad
• Mini flight fins
• Custom flight fender and flight shield

Debut of my new ride. Took forever to get it running but she’s a great little machine. Photogenic just like her sisters 🥰

@scabaa How is living on the isle of man? I hear it's quite pretty!

@scabaa I wouldn’t be able to print them sadly. But there’s probably a bunch of local places that can 3d print on demand :)

A little around the motor/footpad connector where the nuts seal up against the casing is a good idea too. It’s not super likely to leak but helps stop them becoming a problem later after some use.

I do have some fender deletes on printables too for the x10/7. Similar to the stock Pint/GT but split due to the rail bend. There’s a flat or curved version on there if you go through my models on there :)

@loaf That must have been one hell of a tumble to destroy the wrist guards and take you out for a year! Hope you're doing okay now.

@scabaa Hiya ^-^
Yep that one's me. I printed mine out of PLA+ with 6 walls on a 0.4mm nozzle. Layer height was less than 0.2mm and was surprisingly strong so anything you do beyond that should be more than good enough to hold it in place :)

For funwheels they're pretty good out of the box but for piece of mine I'd recommend a line of silicone around the boxes just to be safe.

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.