u/VonDinky

Hi

I took a chance with the Begode Race, hoping I'd be a lucky one without issues. Sadly, haven't been the case. Opened it out, took out of transportation mode (I think?) It at least started self balancing, but just keeps leaning forward, then turns itself off. just wanted to turn it on so I could roll it to where I needed it to be. I could see and hear, it was beeping, only showing one bar blinking of battery. Put it in the charger, but then. It doesn't charge.. Damn it!!

Anyone got suggestions what I could do here? :D I know there is firmware from telegram which might help out. However it's so low battery, don't even know if it has enough battery to do firmware change, but I might try if I can't get any other help. I wrote to Begode, and waiting to hear back. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Haven't really been riding Esk8's all year, been pretty much only riding EUC's. And almost only have ridden on RKP, and a bit of TKP last year. However, I have a Linnpower Zephyr, which I thought about selling. But esk8's so much fun, still gonna keep 1 or 2 for sure. However I think I wanna find RKP setup. Bought a drone, wanted to record a small ride on my Zephyr, which now has 190km on it. Drones are freaking cool! https://youtu.be/xn-n91EkCk4

Hi. One of the buttons on my Vader 4 Pro controller doesn't function too well. It's like sticky. Kind of like a thing which needs lubrication, doesn't press in smoothly, which makes me sometimes screw up my button press.

Can I take it apart, and lubricate it or something? Is that possible? If yes, what lubricant should I use in the button, so it isn't sticky/kind of stuck in movement.

Thanks for any help I can get, have a wonderful day!

I don't know much about fixing stuff, but I need to start learning with this hobby. What kind of Torque Wrench would I need? How high Nm and how low Nm would I need? I currently have a Begode C8, Begode A5 and tomorrow a Patton S. I just got a 2.5-25Nm one, would it work? One AI said it would, another now say I need way higher Nm? D:

Thanks for any help I can get, have an awesome day!

She said I was a real nightmare!

I got a C8, only 300km on it. Been loving it. Last two times I was driving it, I noticed a clonking sound when I started accelerating, and at the end of breaking. And sometimes when hitting a bad stretch of road. So I thought suspension. I recently also not long before I noticed this issue changed around the knobs to get suspension as I like, could that have messed something up? No oil leak or anything he said.

He took it apart, and he say he found the culprit here, can also be seen in main video and heard, seems like tolerance is too big there: https://i.imgur.com/lHkZWnw.png

Here is me rocking back and forth to generate the clonk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apf8BA_aEnU&feature=youtu.be

Once I was going on just a dirt path, with some rocks. I heard it catching a rock, which it have done a few times, the tyre. However this time I could even feel the motor halting a bit, so something really got in there and ground up some stuff, think that one incident maybe is what knocked those metal bars sliding to have a bit of tolerance or something? There is almost no space between the fender and the tire, so things can grind in there, and it happens so fast, you can't really stop when it happens.

Can you somehow fix this issue? Get new metal bars? Or do I then just have to live with that clonking sound? :( Pretty disappointing after only 300km to have a jerk motion and clonk appear. Have not fell even once on the thing, only time it touched the ground was that bad kickstand not being stable, and it slowly fell over. No crashes whatsoever.

Thanks for any help or information I can get, hope I can get this fixed. Having that clonk and play, is probably not the best long term. I have not been riding it since I found out the issue.

Begodes website good price on Begode Extreme. People say good things about it. Not a huge fan of the looks of it tbh though, but good specs for the price. Reviewers like it a lot it seems. Many people seem to do. But also a few people talking about cutouts, but might have been earlier models?

Patton S, I like everything I see, except price tag. Taking into account having to buy fairing plate and protection for battery and back light on the Extreme, price difference is still around 35 percent more still for the Patton S. And I'd be buying the Begode Extreme from their actual website, instead of the Patton S through some shady deals to get it just a bit cheaper, cause it's expensive af normally.

Any thoughts from people who own one or the other, tried both a lot, heard a lot of stuff. Can recommend me one or the other. Right now I'm still mostly leaning towards the Patton S. Mainly because apparently there is less maintenance.

What would be the easiest way to test this? I have the Begode C8 abs Begode A5.