Recent content by happyinmotion

Just replace the bearings and seals first. The bearings are much more likely to have play than the solid metal linkages. There's a good thread on how to do this. It's all pretty easy aside from the two needle bearings in the pull rode. Those are a pain.

I think that's exactly what's happening when the connector is closed up. There's no way to stop the sealing ring from being pushed forward and squishing into contact with the pins. Solution 1 is just to run without the sealing ring. That's what I'm doing now and the bike is behaving as...

Pro options are now on the MX 1.0 for beta testers using the v3.0 of the firmware.

Update done - it sat there for a while then went through the usual update process. Firmware 3.0.3 App 1.8.0 UI refreshed, none of my settings changed except the timers reset to default. The History section is much faster now - my rides would sometimes take minutes to display in there and now...

New Beta app? I just got the email saying "You're one of our most active VARG MX riders, and we want you to be the first to experience what's coming next. Be the first to ride with Varg App 3.0." So I've joined the beta programme... ...but after updates my MX 1.0 is still running 1.2.0...

Further checking confirms to me that the sealing ring is definitely the cause of the issue. Joining the plug and socket without the sealing ring causes the control switch to work as expected. Joining the plug and socket with the ring in place causes phantom signals. It is also much harder to...

The control switch on my MX 1.0 has been misbehaving - the status LED is always dimly light and the bike occasionally behaves as if the buttons are held down. Sounds like dirt in the switch, yes? But taking that apart and cleaning it thoroughly didn't help. So next steps is the connector...

Also according to Gemini: AI is only as useful as the question that you ask it.

I do not believe. It would be so simple for Donut to demonstrate their key claims. Instead they're trickling out evidence about their minor claims to keep us talking about them. Prove the energy density or GTFO.

In the end I just upgraded to the Brembo. That's a much better brake and I have had no problems since.

Who wants to pick up a 200 kg bike? I would rather they target the KTM 690: 13 k€ 80 hp 160 kg That would be a go-anywhere bike that I would not worry about dropping. It could use the existing drivetrain, adding 20 kg of batteries and 10 kg of charger and adventure gubbins. That would give us...

Sixthing this request for tougher spoilers - the carbon is super-light but super-fragile. I'm on my third replacements. Something less pretty but more durable would be an easy buy for me.

Ok, finally got my bearings sorted. The paired bearings in the rocker aim came out with a blind bearing puller with a slide hammer. They should push through as the bores are parallel, ie they don't have a shoulder in them. Still, I couldn't get the pair of them to move with my bearing press so...

Cars have fully shifted to water-cooled batteries so they can have fast charging without overheating. I think that's going to be valuable for bikes, despite the smaller size of batteries. Liquiud battery cooling won't work for the Varg platform but I'm assuming the next bikes will be different...

No. There is a step in the bore and they are pushed up against this step. Hence there's no access to the back side of them. (Well, the lip of the bearing sticks up above the bore by maybe half a mil but hammering on that just broke the lip.) This is a dumb design. Stark could have gone with a...