Begode Falcon - Expensive Toy or Cheap Transportation? 

After 2 years of interest in wheels, here is FINALLY a wheel that really makes me want to get started as a beginner!!! THANK YOU BEGODE THANK YOU!!!

I just took this thing up some technical trails that were a little too tricky on my Lynx. This thing just rips right up it and you can jerk it around and manipulate it so much easier it has totally exceeded my expectations. It is a lot of fun!

Whoa I am digging your workshop. Especially the ceiling lights.

nice small Begode wheel, impress by the quality, thanks!

finally, a worthy replacement for my old S18.

Getting mine this week! I'm pumped to see what it can do 😊

Great video! Love the studio ❤

OMG, 6:15 and the batteries are still connected! He's lucky he didn't get hurt. Next time, as soon as the top's off disconnect the batteries and power-on-to-drain before further teardown. PS: Thanks for the vid. :D

Nice! Great to see a video from you guys and I couldn't have dreamed up a better topic. I put a preorder in for a Falcon quite awhile ago and am impatiently waiting on its arrival;). This was an excellent teardown video and it was really helpful to see everything so up close and clear. Thanks and I'll look forward to hearing your guys' thoughts after riding it for a bit.

Thank you for the teardown. I love that scale BTW

Welcome back missed you two! Waiting on my falcon to arrive! Thanks!

Glad you're both back.

Oh by the way, great video and glad you made it back happy and healthy.

Nice to see a well designed and built wheel 👍 Great teardown and sharing of insights. Thank you !🙏

You have been missed! Nice teardown, I really enjoyed the camera work in this one.

Vous êtes super tous les deux. Bravo !

Suspension adjusting should be already inckused in the bms the same way the tilt angle is incorporated. That way u just control.everhthing from the app. Or menu screen . No need to take the control board off

To be honest, the only “smart bms” wheel I owned was the only one that ever gave me problems, so I’m perfectly fine with this setup.

Quality reviews as usual 👍

Glad to see you are back, you have been missed! 😀 The Falcon looks pretty decent. Only minus that I can see is the thin axle, since people will most likely do jumps on it. What kinda amps can you charge it with?

wow cool nice one been waiting for this one

I wonder if the buzzer/beeper under the wheel facing down would be much quieter if it was insider the top cover facing up towards the rider. Protected and waterproofed. It would be nice if they could put the headlight inside like the rear light but I guess it would be putting out a bit of heat you might not want near the control board. Great teardown. Still it is bit pricey where I live (~A$3000/US$2000) so may wait to see the reviews and hope for a price drop.

Looks better than I imagined it would but those forks looked toy like compared to the commander mini. BTW did you ever weigh those? Glad to see Begode putting the rear light inside. Remember the commander rear light? A hole for the wire (and water ingress) and flimsy vulnerable mount.

Thanks for the excellent teardown! I agree it's cute... if it had smart BMS, hollow bore motor and was 50 lbs or less, it would be irresistible.

Great teardown review👍. No BMS, bummer. Cheers

Nice video! Quite suriprised to see the eWheels branding on the video... Wonder what happened with evees?

Looks like a mini T4, just a bit reconfigured. I like it.

Looks like the falcon is easy to work on. A 50 pound suspension wheel is pretty cool. It will be my next purchase. Great teardown. Looking forward to your tire change.

Thank you for the video. I would like to know what kind of inclines it can tackle with you're respective weights. I live in a hilly area (30-35 degree hills) and weight 65kg with gear, thanks for reading.

Since the boards are conformally coated, you wonder where the heat goes. Yeah, there's the huge heat sink on the bottom of the controller, but the whole device is also sealed for waterproofing. So no convection cooling.

Currently having a KS-14D, A2 and V11. I feel this Falcon is a slight improved A2 but overall, I would not pay this price for a small wheel, small battery. 14D is for short trips (grocery store), going easily in the car’s trunk. V11 is for longer/faster trips/commutes (but as much as enjoy it, I feel I will need a wheel with a bigger battery just to reach 75-80km of range). A2 weight (20kg) is annoying to move around and range is limited (27-30km). The extra 150Wh on the Falcon will add more or less 5-8km but the weight is still high. The A2 is stuck between these 2 purposes (battery is too small for trips, wheel is too heavy to move around) so Falcon will be in the same dilemma. That’s why I would not recommend this wheel unless the person has specific needs (but I can confirm that, once you have tasted bigger wheels, you won’t sadly consider smaller wheels) or if the price is really low ($1400CA or less).

I hope the Bluetooth chips are get little better. They seem to take a min and the distance isn’t very far. Usually just important when charging at a charge stop n you want to check on your wheel. I wonder how fast you will be able to fast charge these?

I would buy it if it had smart bms. To bad begode cheaped out on a dealbreaker for many of us potential buyers. Hoping leaperkim picks up the ball and makes an falcon type of wheel.

the wheel used for like 2 year will be done i hope they sell replcement wheel for it if the old wheel not good anymore

YOOOO I really want to get one and check out how it rips around a pit bike track If it will perform as good as a 16X, I will consider getting two, one for track one for city 😂

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thank you Albert and Christine, good honest infos and goo thought..... you quit eevees?

Is this a hollow motor or with an axle like the A2? If like A2, then is there a perpendicular through hole in the axle for the wire, which is not at all necessary, but only weakens the axle?

Awesome teardown, I like it how suspension travel is in metric mm and weight is in pounds. Cool to see how this wheel is made.

I’m curious how the last parts come off and if the wheel has n axel or is it hollow core? It kinda looks like a huge axel in there?

whoa 2 cells tier down of this baby ....its like christmas

Hello! Maybe someone knows which company produces the shock absorbers that are on the Falcon. Maybe there are analogues? I need to know if the shock absorber breaks, where I can buy it and how much it will cost.

Water bucket test please!

no smart bms is crazy in 2024

Do you guys already tested therange of it? I'm really looking for a smaller wheel for my gf for 50kg/110pounds weight. Any experience on how far it can go on a regular usage? 👀

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Whats the weight limit for the Falcon?

Do u have to remove the pedals to to get to the adjustments for suspension ?

I'm thumbsing down so you don't put that poor falcon in a lake! 😭 (great teardown btw!)

This simple design looks interesting to me. Not good that there is no smart BMS. I would like to have option to have smart BMS.

Hi, I would like to have your opinion on the absence of BMS and a hollow motor on this new wheel. Is this problematic in the long term?

Im sorry if i missed it but what watt is the motor? Not peak, Nominal? Thank you so much

You got my “like,” but please don’t put it in the lake. I’m a bit nervous. I ordered one of the first batch Wheels would you say it’s generally true if the Begode has been upping their game and it is not as big of a risk order or first batch of the falcon? With your expertise, your opinion is of course important to me, but I know we can’t project the future!

Finalement c'est pas plus mal que WRONG WAY se soit lui même auto censuré sur les roues NON Smart BMS ça permet aux gens plus réalistes et optimistes de dire du bien de cette belle roue et de la mettre en avant pour les nouveaux débutants et non les vieux ronchons pessimistes dont on se passe foutrement bien :-)

ip67 means it should withstand water for 30 minutes submerged 1 meter under water. So please don't submerge it for an hour. And don't high pressure wash it. If you want to test it, test if it does what they say it does, not more than they say it can handle.

please make a lynx and etmax teardown

Where can I buy this EUC? I'm in Italy

can you change the tire with a lighter one?

It's good choice for beginner?

Does anyone have a good recommendation for motor bolt toque specs?

This wheel is everything I want as a first wheel but the lack of a smart bms is a such a killer!

800 mores likes to go !!!!!!!!!!

Bonjour, mon poids est de 85 kg. Crois tu que cette roue puisse me convenir malgré tout ?

This wheel is already making people jealous, you can read it in the comments ^^ The number of frustrated people trying to convince themselves that it's not good makes me laugh so much. This wheel is great, nothing to say!

Sweeet

u guy better hope that thing can run at least 60 MPH max speed LOL if not that bad LOL

Those pedals give me foot cramp for some reason.

nooooo dont tare down the protofalcon! well do what you gotta do.

500 kind to much 300 on that thing is good

Dip it into the water

Basically a sturdier Molicel S18 on a lesser diameter. Meh.

A Begode test without Bailey is like well, whiskey testing without whiskey…..

I think the title is really missleading. It's a teardown.

useless overpriced poor enginered toy