Taco Tuesday Group Ride With Glendale PEV

[@mandyplaneta8683]

That red bike is so sick 🤩

[@mandyplaneta8683]

I have blast today on my brand new Niu 300x

[@THEAVERAGEGUY1983]

@mandyplaneta8683 i know that was the first bike that caught my eye when i first seen it at an LA PEV ride in Santa Monica. I love those white wall tires. 🥰

[@Matsterious]

Love seeing the pev and tacos!

[@THEAVERAGEGUY1983]

@@Matsterious 😁👊

[@inspiritusanto9214]

New video-cool, thanks 🤝💥

[@THEAVERAGEGUY1983]

@inspiritusanto9214 very much appreciated 🙏🙇‍♂️

[@artartpal]

Great ride and video as usual. I liked the part where the intro song gets stuck in my head. Thanks for the shoutout!

[@THEAVERAGEGUY1983]

@@artartpal hahahaha its a catchy intro. And right on! 😎👊

[@adamstevens3428]

Pizza is always good! So are tacos 🌮

[@THEAVERAGEGUY1983]

@@adamstevens3428 😁👊

[@tomtu550]

That scooter is hooked up 👍🏼

[@THEAVERAGEGUY1983]

@@tomtu550 😁👊

[@JPL_Rides]

Great video as always. Despite the negatives, it was a good ride. I agree with you in that we have to be responsible at these group rides, safety always comes first. Unfortunately have seen a nasty fall during an LAPEV ride after someone drank too much. The guy at the ride also had muscle spams which was not helping either.

[@THEAVERAGEGUY1983]

@JPL_Rides oh damn i definitely didnt know about the muscle spasms, that definitely didn't help at all for Justin. 😬 i do hope he is doing ok now.

[@Ariel-x1x]

I'd just pay more attention to brake maintenance. RS has thicker disks and 40 amp-hours. While regen is for coming down larger hills or mountains to keep brake fluid temperatures lower to prevent brake-fade. It's really not for routine recharge of the battery, IMO. Here's why: The battery does not discharge much downhill so overheating electronics isn't such an issue with regen use for downhill only. IMO, regen should thus be selectable on a switch on the handle bar (and it is on some), or don't bother to use it at all (unless your brakes are trash). Having it accessed via settings is almost useless, and may lead to you always having it on. Why is that bad? DC (battery) to AC (engine use) conversion thermal loss varies from 5% to 17%, as a scooter accelerates (i.e. battery discharge resistance loss, AC sine-wave conversion/filtering loss in controllers, cable loss, AC motor loss, and even tire traction thermal loss as well). This loss is all as heat, to be dissipated in electronics, then into a heat sink. So your electronics get hammered. If you then convert back from AC to DC (i.e. regen battery storage) it suffers rectifier conversion loss of about 18% a second time, to transform it from the AC sine wave current into DC battery storage. Then another few percent of loss as cable and battery resistance to recharge (which then heats battery cells and helps degrades them). All up the losses of around 22% occurs with regen. So regen makes more electronic heat than even acceleration does. Thus using acceleration, plus the regen, together, means you're constantly doubling the thermal dissipation required for every acceleration and deceleration cycle. This extra heat all has to go into electronics and a heat-sink to dissipate the added thermal stress. So you're losing about 35% to 40% of all AMP flows in your cables and controllers as heat into electronics, via combined DC to AC discharge, and AC to DC recharge conversion processes. So why do that for normal flat-ground riding with regen on? IMO, stop doing that. A 40 amp-hour scooter will easily get 90 km to 100 km range (with good speed) so there is no need for regen as you already can't physically ride that far on typical rides. So turn regen off, and bleed your brakes more regularly plus visually check the brake pads more often. Almost every part of the scooter will last longer if you do that. The brakes contain 'consumables' that are designed to be replaced. The electronics are not (except fuses). So bleed the brakes more often and carry spare brake pads in your tool kit. With no regen all the braking heat goes into the air-cooled disks, brake fluid and tires, not into the expensive thermal conduction-cooled cable insulation, controllers and battery.

[@THEAVERAGEGUY1983]

@facsimile-io3dd very good info, and i read everything! You definitely know your tech. I wish others were like you. It would make explaining things easier. I do feel Inmotion should do what Apollo did and warn customers about the regen so the cables dont burn out from excessive heat from regen. I think it would help the life of the scooter.

[@therealcmplx]

Bro...im jealous that im no longer down in the general socal area. I got a few scoots and ebikes i would take out for group rides. I'll just have to plan to come down there some time.

[@THEAVERAGEGUY1983]

@@therealcmplx you should if you ever get a chance to come down here.

[@tomsgadgetgarage]

I’ll take the asada tacos and a gallon of horchata haha.

[@THEAVERAGEGUY1983]

@@tomsgadgetgarage 😁👊

[@ShaunWavePlus]

i wish i could join! i have a segway gt 1 .. pittsburgh pa here...

[@RaneMP2016]

If you have headphones, you can hear the 1 wheel eat it

[@THEAVERAGEGUY1983]

@RaneMP2016 yeah it was a very hard hit.

[@lex_2037]

Is this a monthly ride? What's the telegram for Glendale PEV? Where's the event page? Why did the chicken cross the road? How did they build the pyramids? Will Elizabeth Olsen love me back? Thanks, bro! 😅

[@THEAVERAGEGUY1983]

@felix_2037 it is pretty much like every 2 weeks to monthly. Im not sure if Glendale PEV has a Telegram page but they do have a Facebook page and Instagram page and the group leader does post the next upcoming group rides.

[@lex_2037]

@THEAVERAGEGUY1983 thank you for replying!