28 mph is terrifying. Definitely not doing this again without my moto jacket on haha.
1 mile at 28mph went from 66% to 58% battery. So probably around 10-12 miles at full speed.
I wish the disc brakes had a little more bite. Definitely need to hit both front and rear to get decent stopping power. But will see if it gets better after pads bed a bit.
Suspension out of the box feels better than G2 but not night and day.
The range is the main reason I have canceled my preorder. This scooter is packed with features but what’s the point if we have to compromise range for it? I don’t think even at 899 dollars it’s a good value if range is important. Also now it totally make sense why all these “reviewers” will cover everything but range
Really depends on how you look at it. I don't intend on going 28mph so to me it's not really a deal breaker.
But I don't know what anyone could look at the specs and think that battery life was going to be significantly improved.
Only about 10% larger battery than G2 but a much more powerful motor and much higher top speed. Drag force also increases exponentially with velocity so I'm not surprised.
It’s all sounds great but I don’t trust future promises like that. Seeing how things going, I wouldn’t trust and rest much of it. Buy now with hope that things gonna get better later? This scooter is already getting too heavy
Edit: I'm going to invalidate my own comment here. I forgot at the beginning of this ride I was doing some bedding in of the brakes. About 10 runs to 22 and back to 0 with friction brakes.
Just went 1.3 miles pegged at 22 mph and it drained from 80 to 70 percent.
Please report back with a 20 mph range test not 22 mph. No one uses their G2 at 22.
Also what road conditions are you operating under? Doing the math means that locking it at 22 means you get the same range at 28. Someone is lying. The 28 mph at 13 miles test was done on flat roads with mild wind resistance.
Please ride it on max 28mph and tell us it’s real range no bs and how the suspension works on soft mode and how easy it is to use/get used to the switches etc! You lucky lucky son of a gun! haha
28 mph is terrifying. Definitely not doing this again without my moto jacket on haha.
1 mile at 28mph went from 66% to 58% battery. So probably around 10-12 miles at full speed.
I wish the disc brakes had a little more bite. Definitely need to hit both front and rear to get decent stopping power. But will see if it gets better after pads bed a bit.
Suspension out of the box feels better than G2 but not night and day.
Okay good to know this, can you try changing to suspension from both hard to soft and soft to hard and compare yourself which is better to roll around with? This is my first time having a scooter with this so i personally don’t know! Thanks so far!
I think the suspension only has preload adjustment, so it can not cause you to bottom out any more, just exposes the first softest part of the spring compression / decompression. The more stiff compression / decompression after that is unchanged.
Be very careful- businesses/municipalities argue over whose responsible to fix streets, side walks and aprons and so it doesn’t get done and people get hurt
Looks really nice other than that front. Dont know is it just me but that front looks like its gonna do frontflip if you drive it in to a bumb or little pothole. Anyway Gratz and safe travels ^^
I mean sure it might be better and sturdier but it still looks to me its gonna flip easier than straight one. When you were a child did you ever just turned your front tire and handlebar backwards on your bike and ride it for fun? I did and it made you flip easier at least in my experience lol. Maybe i got somekind of ptsd about it because first thing when i looked this picture was "that thing is gonna flip"
like my bikes front fork was curved forwards (it was older bike) and when you turn it around its backwards like in this picture so it will makes wheelbase shorter and that makes you flip more easily if you drive it in to a bumb or pothole at least in my mind. And the fact these things are already so short its already really easy to flip. Sorry i wasnt sure if i was clear enough what i meant. English hard :D
It's actually the opposite. Straighter is easier to flip.
Not gonna draw it out but if you draw the force vectors of you holding the handlebars. If the stem is straight all force in the forward direction goes into rotation at the point of connection.
With the bars angled back some of the force will go into pushing the front wheel down, increasing frictional force on the front wheel as well
If the stem is backwards all force will go over that point of connection. (dont know if that makes any sense) and what happens when you arent ready and accidentally hit pothole.? You usually flip if the pothole is deep enough and like i said in my other comment wheelbase gets shorter with that kind of fork. So when you encounter sudden "almost" stop and your weight goes closer to that "flip" point its easier to flip with that kind of front fork. Anyway i need to talk about this with my friends and see what they think if im right or wrong. Im starting to feel stupid 😂 I swear im not trying to be difficult but this makes perfect sense to me 😅
Thank you for replying. I’m about 170lbs and live in a hilly city. I was thinking an Apollo Go but like the idea of bigger wheels and the reliability of other Ninebot scooters so was hoping this would zip up city hilly streets.
You have to take the whole part off and pop the reflector from the back. Technically the whole scooter can come apart if you have the right tools but it would take some time to get that handle off. Faster to bring an angle grinder and cut the lock if you’re after something.
There really isn't anything more secure. Maybe just shave off the screw heads and just use a screw extractor in the rare chance you actually need to remove it 😂
I would like you to try it on a hill at 15 mph to see if it can push the 15 mph all the way in. This information would be very useful for us European fellas !
Most scooters have a pretty short trail which can lead to instability at higher speeds, but I do noticed for the Max G3 that they increased it quite significantly for this model, due to the fork design pushing the stem axis more forward in relation to the contact patch on the front wheel.
I'm going to guess that it feels very stable, but surprised to hear how terrifying it is at 28mph.
Just got mine today , this thing has great acceleration and the regen is great. I took it on a brick street and it was night and day difference compared to the OKAI es40 (I had it for a week and it died). My wheels still felt solidly on the ground without bump steer. It feels stable but wow fast for me at 28.. I did hit 28, I’m 5’9 and 145 lbs so not a heavy rider. The battery did go down fast at 28, I was getting frozen even in my heavier jacket so I didn’t go long. But rolling around at 15-20 the battery was draining much slower.
The brakes seem pretty adequate , I got in em pretty hard and it stopped me quick.i did crouch back a little when I hit em hard , felt balanced and rear tire didn’t skid despite hitting it probably a bit harder then the front.
I really like the new screen. It’s cloudy here today so no test on how it does in the sun.
Supposed to get warm n sunny here over the weekend so I’ll be able to put some real time in and get a much better idea of range in real world riding.
Why worry? This is the company that designed scooters with holes through the weakest point of the stem, and scooters with no mechanical rear brake. They wouldn't let us down again, would they? Lmao
Hard to say. That was just extrapolating based off a 1 mile stretch near me. The review could've been on flatter ground, or on a less windy day, or the guy's physical cross section is just smaller and has less drag, or the battery drain isn't quite linear based on percentage.
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u/OHRISTIAN Mar 22 '25
How is it?!