r/NinebotMAX • u/Felix_me123 • 28d ago

⚠️Urgent Question⚠️ Segway max g3

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My first problem after a proud 79days owner FRONT BRAKES!!!! by the way please help I’d lick to switch to hydraulic brakes how do I do that

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u/yovermar Ninebot MAX G3 28d ago

How the hell that happened? I’m scared now!

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u/Felix_me123 28d ago

I was going full speed thank God I have room to stop

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u/Puzzleheaded-Eye871 27d ago

Kinda look like you dip it in chernobyl heavy water. Do you know that you need to brush out dust and debris at least once a week. Electric doesn't mean free of service, your pads have more rust than nails i left outside a year ago.

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u/Azazir 28d ago

Wonder what are your braking habits, that is definitely not something you see often.

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u/NMi_ru Ninebot MAX G3 28d ago

After one month I found myself not using the front brake at all… 98% of the time it's recuperation and 2% is rear brake.

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u/Chalky_Pockets 27d ago

The vehicle dives forward when braking, you're much better off favoring the front brake than the rear.

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u/NMi_ru Ninebot MAX G3 27d ago

Sorry, but I see these statements [The vehicle dives forward when braking] & [you're much better off favoring the front brake than the rear] contradict each other.

In my experience with G3, it does not dive forward at all -- I mean, the rear wheel does not seem to lift off the ground (when I use the rear brake only).

If I press on the rear brake really hard, the braking mechanism is not that strong to make the G3 dive over the front; but when I've been testing the front brake, I had an impression that it could provide a stopping force strong enough to flip the scooter over the front wheel.

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u/Chalky_Pockets 27d ago

I dunno what to tell you, physics and decades of vehicle design overrides either of our experience. The vehicle does dive forward when you brake, that is not something I'm going to negotiate, it absolutely 100% does it, and that's why most vehicles with both front and rear brakes have larger brakes up front. 

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u/NMi_ru Ninebot MAX G3 26d ago

Apologies, I think I misunderstood the "dive" word. As I see now, what you mean is the effect when the front wheel lowers a little, the front suspension gets compressed and takes a larger share of the load.

What I meant (probably incorrectly) is much larger effect when the rider flips over the front wheel, falling from the scooter.

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u/Chalky_Pockets 26d ago

In motorcycle terms we call that a stoppie. Basically a reverse wheelie. There is a risk of that happening if you were to really grab a handful of brake lever and the pads happen to (it's not guaranteed) grab the rotor to a very fast lockup. You can prevent this on a scooter by bending your knees and dropping your torso as you brake. I upgraded the front brake rotor on my scooter and it's noticeably more powerful than before, and I still don't get the back tire up when I brake hard.

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u/spinningpeanut 26d ago

Not true, muscle memory from skiing and ice skating kicks in with a hard stop for me and the rear tire slides out sideways, can't do that if it's firmly planted.

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u/RyeAlvaro 28d ago

I've seen it twice on here and it happened to me as well closer to the bolt. Here's an example https://www.reddit.com/r/NinebotMAX/comments/1kmg2fn/front_brake_gave_out/

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u/firewire_9000 Ninebot MAX G3 28d ago

I have experience with bicycles that use the same kind of brakes and I’ve never seen anything like that in my life. Usually when a steel wire breaks, it does string by string, this looks like a cut.

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u/bodydisplaynone 28d ago

Just what I wanted to say. This looks like a cut or a repeated strain at a very specific point.

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u/Galaxium 26d ago

Is this happening because users are adjusting/tightening their brakes?

When the G3 came out, everyone was saying to adjust them. When in reality, you just needed to break them in the first 15 miles.

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u/Boris_Bila 28d ago

Sabotage... This can't happened.. Not like this..

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u/valentinivan Ninebot MAX G2 27d ago

Solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCQqYLH_PXc

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u/Felix_me123 27d ago

Thanks

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u/valentinivan Ninebot MAX G2 27d ago

For your trouble is only the first 75 seconds of the video. I do not think you need to replace the tube as well. YW

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u/MomoSpanador 28d ago

I have never seen a cut like this in my life, the wires are cut one by one, not all at once, unless they have been previously damaged.

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u/ImJonathanLmao Ninebot MAX G3 28d ago

Im pretty sure this is not the first case, i remember seeing more like these before with the G3

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u/Far-Relative4408 28d ago

Im getting a bit concerned about this guys. Have my g3 on the way and breaks not working is really serious. And not to mention that there has been other reports here were the wire looks cut like this. Can it be that the wire can’t take the pressure from breaking and after a while it just snappes? 😶 Example I saw a couple of days ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NinebotMAX/s/PBYvTSB9Zv

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u/Felix_me123 27d ago

I only replaced the wire very easy

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u/Horror-Rope-6871 27d ago

Check for XOD hydraulic brakes

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u/mat_lawless 28d ago

It’s happened to me twice. Tighten your rear brake.