10k miles - 0 problems

[schwankl]

 

[rayivers]

Congrats! I went past 5K this morning, wouldn't have noticed except for your post. Btw... do you notice any change in motor power? I used to be able to lift the front wheel fairly easily in map 1, but not anymore.

 

[schwankl]

I have not noticed any diff in power... its an 18 EXR. I have a 18 MXR w/ ~4k miles on it too, both bikes have wp xplor suspension - mainly ride trails in the uintas and wasatch range. Both ride the same, always keep them in map 4, and never had a problem getting front up.
Unrelated, but another pic of the EXR at Hagerman pass thought would share:

 

[rayivers]

Cool pic! Is that windblown ice?

I really should've gotten an EXR, but I wanted that AER fork for some reason. I don't notice the power thing in map 4 either, just 1 and maybe 2 as well. I'm mainly using map 3 since the last Ohlins revalve, the rear suspension works so much better without the strong map 4 regen (my MXR's maps are identical to the SM's, not sure what's up with that).

 

[Oded]

Congrats! I went past 5K this morning, wouldn't have noticed except for your post. Btw... do you notice any change in motor power? I used to be able to lift the front wheel fairly easily in map 1, but not anymore.

Hi Ray, I'd try to re-time the motor via multitool. Might help

 

[rayivers]

Hi Ray, I'd try to re-time the motor via multitool. Might help

Thanks for that idea, Oded - I'll check it when I finally get off my butt and hook up MT. At this point, I honestly think it's the magnets degrading from use. When new, the bike had strong 'cogging' w/key off and was difficult to maneuver uphill into the garage sometimes, hot or cold. Now it has weak cold cogging, and almost none when hot. Fwiw, I brought my Zero in for retiming when it lost torque and started surging, turned out the timing was fine.

 

[wwmotors]

Congrats! My MXR has now 7500kms of hard MX. No major issues. Best bike!

 

[Rashid510]

Thanks for that idea, Oded - I'll check it when I finally get off my butt and hook up MT. At this point, I honestly think it's the magnets degrading from use. When new, the bike had strong 'cogging' w/key off and was difficult to maneuver uphill into the garage sometimes, hot or cold. Now it has weak cold cogging, and almost none when hot. Fwiw, I brought my Zero in for retiming when it lost torque and started surging, turned out the timing was fine.

I would definetly try the re-time/potentially update the inverter. Over time the motor cogging will change, and that definetely due to the bearings wearing, but nothing out of the ordinary.

FYI - Zero timing is idiotic. The XMX commisioning program required your to PULL the belt during production a few times . Operators did not know how to do that correctly which would lead to mistiming/bad cogging from the motor. Since Zero used an encoder chip, the chip also had a tendency to go bad...

 

[rayivers]

Yeah, I don't miss the Zero experience at all. One dealer was excellent and knew his stuff, the rest varied from sort-of-OK to awful.

 

[Motophyllic]

Is the motor time automatic with MT or do I have to pick parameters?

 

[Rashid510]

Is the motor time automatic with MT or do I have to pick parameters?

The motor timing process in MT is completely automated. Just click the motor time button, go through the prompts on the screen and your set! (Just make sure your bike is lifted up since it will be cogging forward and backwards, rotating the wheel.)

 

[Motophyllic]

I never knew that. Thank you very much!!