Keep Your Motor Cool.
The most common method of damaging the unit is by over heating the motor. Motors can be over worked and eventually this
will burn-through the motor. Avoid frequent accelerations, burnouts, towing heavy loads, long steep hill climbs, and the likes that
require the motor to work harder. If you have been working the motor hard, reach down and carefully feel the temperature of it. If it
is too hot to hold your hand/finger against then stop riding and give it a chance to cool down before continuing. These heavy loads
also exert huge power draws from the batteries that drastically shorten your usable range and battery life. In addition, keeping your
speed relatively constant will also help maximizes available range.
Don’t get dragged down
Brakes should not be dragging or preventing the wheel from spinning freely. There is a small amount of natural drag created by the
drive components but making sure they are in working order, properly lubricated, adjusted, and in alignment, will help ensure you
are not losing any performance.
Rolling
Make sure you have the proper pressure in the tires. There is a PSI tire pressure rating on the side wall on the tire and you should
try to keep your tires at that pressure at all times. Keeping the correct PSI marked on the sidewall will further reduce the rolling
resistance of the tires and increase the usable range, acceleration, and speed.
Battery Care
Letting the batteries sit in the unit with a depleted charge is harsh on the chemistry that makes them functional and will greatly
reduce their usable life. So, it is best to get in the practice of keeping them charged whenever possible.
Charge For Storage.
Do not leave unit on a charge for an unneccessary long time. Any longer and over charging (more than one week) can end up
damaging the batteries or even create an potential fire hazard. If you plan to store the unit for more than one month you should
first charge the unit fully then disconnect the charger to store and put the unit on a charge for a few hours once a month to insure
the batteries stay “topped off”.
Riding surfaces to avoid
Your unit incorporates some very sophisticated and sensitive electronic components that do not like heavy vibrations or shock
loads that is typically associated with riding on an unpaved/uneven surface or hopping down street curbing. The occasional
unavoidable bumps are ok but try to avoid rough terrain whenever possible.
Weather Conditions to Avoid:
Although some water resistance measures have been made, your electric vehicle is not completely sealed from the elements so
driving the unit through standing water, wet or muddy conditions runs the risk of severely damaging it. The ideal solution to riding
any 2-wheel vehicle in wet/muddy conditions is to just not do it.
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