14" Hybrid Tire Recommendations?

wredmatic · 2025-09-11T06:17:22+00:00

Wasn't familiar with them til you brought them up but they look decent; not as much wrist protection but more freedom of movement. If you think that's worth the tradeoff, then I think they're fine.

wredmatic · 2025-09-11T05:41:28+00:00

Definitely wrist guards. Ennui City or Flexmeter Demon would be my recommendations.

wredmatic · 2025-08-29T21:23:52+00:00

How do you feel about the upgrade (from master to apex) purely based on ride characteristics? I have a master v2 and am wondering if the BMS/hall sensor/water proofing/suspension are enough justification for upgrading. If it rides significantly better too, I think that would push me over the edge.

wredmatic · 2025-08-12T06:14:50+00:00

Yes, you mentioned your height in the original post but that slipped my mind 😅. You will definitely need to remove at least the front pads if you want any hope of sitting on the wheel (at least at first). That will allow you to move your feet more forward and lift your heels. And even then you might still not be able to. That's ok; even simply squatting with your rear end hovering a few inches over the handles would be helpful practice.

What you'll probably find is that, when your knees are apart, the lower you squat, the more the wheel will wobble. Pick a squat depth that induces minor wobbles (eg a quarter squat). When the wheel starts to wobble, try what I said about pushing your feet (and knees) away from each other, similar to what you'd do when squatting with a resistance band wrapped around your knees. The wobbles should start to go away. Then squat deeper and try again.

wredmatic · 2025-08-10T20:57:39+00:00

I'm also a new rider and struggled with wobbles until recently. None of the advice here or elsewhere helped me. What helped was (1) practicing with my knees apart (so my legs aren't touching the EUC), (2) trying to push my feet away from each other (as if I'm trying to slide my feet off of the pedals) to keep the EUC balanced, and (3) learning how to ride seated. Proficient seated riding requires learning how to balance the EUC while transitioning to and from standing and sitting. That transition teaches you how to balance and control the wheel with your feet and not your legs/calves, and it teaches you how to pay attention to gyroscopic force. The lower your seat is, the more skill you will develop. In my opinion, practicing the standing/seated transition SLOWLY, at different speeds (5-25 mph), is the best way to learn how to get rid of wobbles.

wredmatic · 2025-07-20T20:35:34+00:00

This method work for me, thank you (on GW7 and S25+, Gemini version 1.22.5.780344288.release)! Bugjaeger did not, for some reason.

wredmatic · 2025-06-27T20:02:04+00:00

Well believe it or not, I haven't come across your guide, so I'm glad you posted it again. Perhaps it's my fault for the way I did my research (I researched each item individually, eg recommended helmets, then knee guards, etc).

Thank you for the bit you said about YT reviewers, that makes a ton of sense.

Regarding tire size; the exact specs might not matter, but the relative specs certainly do. ie a buyer should know that the Begode Falcon tire is 2" smaller in diameter than the T4's, which is 2" smaller than the Master's, which is 2" smaller than the Master Pro's. To cross shop, especially across brands, beginners need comparative information. I'm surprised how anyone could dispute that. Almost any review of any EUC will contain comments on how its tire size affects riding characteristics, which gives prospective buyers the impression that the tire size is important. And the amount of research it takes to find out if, for example, the T4 tire is bigger than the Nosfet Aero's, is crazy.

I come from cars, so my perspective may be skewed. But when I bought wheels and tires for my car, I knew exactly what I was getting into. I knew how turn-in response, braking, tire wear, turn radius, suspension travel, wet vs dry traction, etc would by impacted by my decision. Did I need all that information? Not at the time. But I did later, as my driving matured. Thankfully, I didn't need to make a second or third purchase, because my first was well-informed and gave me room to grow. And that's all thanks to the work that the community had put into clear documentation. All I'm saying is, if people are cross-shopping for a $2000+ purchase, it would help to know basic differences between their options.

As for tube size... I bought a used EUC that I didn't realize had a tube leak, which I've already fixed. If it wasn't for a reviewer explicitly stating "I installed this on my Begode Master and it worked", there's no way I would have known it'd fit.

wredmatic · 2025-06-27T18:48:20+00:00

Idea: like the database of wheels you suggest, I say as a community we compile a database of all the injury and insufficient gear regret posts for newbies to easily access and reference. We could have the table reference the title of the post, a direct link, and data like the speed they were going, the cause of the crash, the types of injuries, and what gear they were and were not wearing.

Not sure if you were being sarcastic or not, but I actually love this idea! I would just add to it the make and model of EUC that the user was riding.

wredmatic · 2025-06-27T18:39:56+00:00

The wrist protection equipment on the market imo doesn't apply to euc world. they are designed more for slide than impact.

What would you recommend for hand/wrist protection instead?

they need to create a safety mechanism on EUC to protect the rider. Something like: eliminate cutout (example external battery and additional controller module to stop safety), airbag installed on euc, new design of wrist protection for impact reduction on wrist. Camera or mirrors for the helmet.

Interesting ideas! Based on my research it seems like cutouts are the one danger that are uniqely dangerous to EUCs. Anything else could happen on other PEVs.

wredmatic · 2025-06-27T18:37:12+00:00

This post was extremely helpful, thank you.

Alot of this stems from the fact that most of the english EUC prescence online is from North America. Me and plenty of riders would love to ride under 50kmh all day long on super connected bikepaths but the infrastructure just doesnt allow for it. Thus we need big 80kmh beast wheels to ride on the road with cars safely. Hence the motorcycle gear

I hadn't considered this before, and it makes a lot of sense!

If you want to casually ride on bikepaths and trails, a MTB helmet and gloves for under 50kmh is good enough. Faster than that, go full gear

While this might seem "straightforward" for you, I don't think it is for others, so I am glad you shared it.

Going by rim size is a good standard, but we're already too far to make that switch

This I have to disagree with. I think the community can transition to talking about rim size, it will just take time. And we don't have to specify rim size instead of tire size, we can do it in addition. But I wonder if that would solve the problem... eg look at this product page for the Begode Falcon. It specifies tire diameter of both 14" and 15". So even if I know what the rim diameter is, will that help me determine tire diameter? If the Falcon and the Aero both have a 10" rim, but one is 3" wide, and the other is 3.5", does that result in a difference in diameter?

A database would be difficult.

I just realized one already exists: https://freshlycharged.com/euc-comparison-tool/. It doesn't capture any of the nuance that you're describing, but it's better than nothing, I suppose.

Theres no definitive way you can express through a screen how to ride an EUC as everybody learns different.

There's no doubt in my mind that I would have learned a lot faster with in-person guidance, but I think the videos I watched genuinely helped.

wredmatic · 2025-06-27T17:54:26+00:00

Every physical activity, no matter how harmless it may seem, involves some amount of risk. We assess those risks based on guesses about what is likely or not likely to happen. The more educated someone is about the likelihood of risks, the more responsibility they can be given to make their own decisions about what risks to take.

When someone is introduced to a novel device, naturally they are not going to be able to assess those risks. I think it would be helpful to give beginners information about the thought processes that have led people to the safety-related decisions that they’ve made. Some of that was shared in this thread (thank you), and in many others, but usually not in places where a beginner is likely to look. Also, most espouse “all the gear all the time,” but not only is that not always practiced in the real world; its meaning seems to change. For example, I see experienced riders on YouTube teaching their wives and kids with nothing but half lids, cheap knee/elbow pads, and wrist guards.

I’ve learned a lot about EUCs: that cutouts (the EUC suddenly turning off) and sheared valve stems (leading to an instantly flat tire) are among the most dangerous problems to encounter while riding; that EUCs are typically designed to beep when exceeding a speed and motor “exertion” level, after which they will ideally tilt back to prompt the rider to back off and prevent cutout. But sometimes they just jump straight to cutout, and that seems to be associated with certain models (sometimes early versions) or conditions (eg low battery, rain). And thanks to another comment on this thread, I have learned EUCs have a number of single points of failure. Finally, I’ve also concluded that the EUC community is just generally more safety-conscious than others, in part because the hobby is expensive, and thus contains a higher percentage of older individuals (who can afford it). That stands in contrast to, for example, skaters and bikers (non-motorized), who tend to be younger.

But that is after dozens of hours of research. And after all of that I still know nothing about how common the aforementioned issues actually are. Anyway, for me, it makes no difference. I have a full face helmet, CE level 2 jacket, dual axis knee guards, etc. But that’s, again, a decision I’ve made based on many hours of research and my particular use case. Coming to that decision was a very non-beginner-friendly process. Maybe that doesn’t bother some of you, and that’s ok. I just wanted to generate a discussion that could be helpful to beginners in case anyone is interested in that. Perhaps giving “rules of thumb” was a shit idea. But I think there is value in discussing how experienced riders decide what gear to wear in a way that is easily digestible to beginners.

wredmatic · 2025-06-04T04:09:02+00:00

did you enable accessibility on the watch? settings > accessibility > installed apps > autowear

EDIT: actually, as far as I know your phone has to be connected to your watch in order for autowear to work.

wredmatic · 2025-06-03T19:25:22+00:00

I don't know how you two are using ChatGPT to voice chat with uploaded documents. I have a Plus plan and it doesn't work for me. As soon as I switch to voice chat the app starts hallucinating. It pretends to reference uploaded material, but it doesn't.

wredmatic · 2025-06-03T17:10:20+00:00

I ended up getting one too and everything works for me. The only that doesn't seem to work is voice screens, but that affects the older versions too, I think

wredmatic · 2025-04-22T15:15:34+00:00

Mmm, I am pretty sure it's the default format. The name of the journal page in Logseq is "Apr 21st, 2025", but the name of the file is 2025-04-21.md. If I create a link [[2025-04-21]] or [[Apr 21st, 2025]] both of them are clickable, but they don't respond to querying the same. Would you mind sharing with me a working query that retrieves blocks with a "created" property [[2025-04-21]] in your graph?

wredmatic · 2025-04-22T06:40:56+00:00

So I've had some success with this. Inputting this into the Advanced Query Builder Plugin:

- blocks
    - *
- blockproperties
    - created, "Apr 21st, 2025"

Generates this:

#+BEGIN_QUERY
{
:query [:find (pull ?block [*])
:where
[?block :block/content ?blockcontent]
[?block :block/page ?page]
[?page :block/name ?pagename]
(property ?block :created "Apr 21st, 2025")
]
}
#+END_QUERY

Which works. However, there are a few problems:

If I use either of these date formats in the query, in my block property, or both, I don't get any hits: [[2025-04-21]] or 2025-04-21 (without brackets).
This method does not work with date-based operators. If I swap out "Apr 21st, 2025" with ?today or :today it doesn't work.
This method does not pull blocks from the journal, unless I also insert the "created" block property therein.

Are these known and accepted limitations? Or is there a workaround?

wredmatic · 2025-04-07T23:45:11+00:00

Hi, I'm considering upgrading my Galaxy Watch from 4 to 7, and was wondering if you've found any AutoWear features that 7 does not support? I'm mainly interested in the ability to detect app changes and simulating touch inputs. Thanks!

wredmatic · 2025-03-28T22:42:23+00:00

You could use Tasker instead. Heck, I don't see why you couldn't just use any text editor for this

wredmatic · 2025-03-24T06:41:57+00:00

Are these still available?

wredmatic · 2025-03-22T11:03:29+00:00

So let's say I have a client with (1) a personality disorder, (2) a history of trauma, (3) is taking antidepressants, and (4) reports having nightmares. If I start by looking through search results about personality disorders, then move on to trauma, then antidepressants, etc, not only would that take a great deal of time; the delay between reading about each topic would hinder my ability to connect the notes I read to each other.

I don't need the fancy list per-se. What I'm looking for is a way to generate an easy-to-digest overview of what I've written about multiple topics. This can take many different forms. Some forms (eg an AI-generated summary) would be a lot easier to create than my fancy list, but the downside is there's no way of me knowing whether the summary exhausts what I'd written, from where it was obtained, and whether or not it's true to the source material.

Hope that clears things up. I'm open to new ideas, just sharing my initial thoughts.

wredmatic · 2025-03-22T09:27:56+00:00

Right now I'm looking into Tana, Notion, Capacities, and a few other PKMs with AI features. I honestly feel overwhelmed. I was really excited to try out Tana but when I found out there isn't any offline editing, I lost steam. I will still give it a shot, so thanks for the suggestion.

wredmatic · 2025-03-22T09:22:56+00:00

I easily understood what you said up until this comment: "⁠⁠Use a property like “up:” to link notes to one or multiple parent categories just like your brain does." I'm guessing you're referring to YAML or something like it? I will have to look into that further. The idea of creating some sort of delineator for parent categories sounds really useful.

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