This is very handy guys, had my wide wheel 7 months and love it. I’m a road cyclist and motorcyclist but my wide wheel is the perfect mix of both- the best fun!! And no pollution, I’ll never own a car again! Great to get your maintenance videos, bicycle shops have no idea how to work on these.
good video. Actually you don't need to remove that grub screw as its just an interference lock to prevent the rear caliper from moving due to vibration. So just loosening it a bit is sufficient (and may prevent losing it). Of course a drop of the lowest strength loctite on that is good practice too. With respect to the rear adjustment I believe that you need to keep adjusting that up as it wears the pads, so I would be hesitant to put any solid loctite there too ... indeed you'll also need to adjust the front pad too as it wears (and you don't want to need to change the lever position to take that up) so I'd also be cautious on loctite there too. Nice work
I know finophile has a lot of experience with this scooter and I thought the exact same thing about loctite'ing the threaded disk that holds the rear brake pad. That threaded disk is the adjustment for when the rear brake pad wears down. The rear pad should be almost if not touching the disc at all times. This ensures braking force is even on the disc since force is only applied to the front pad. As the rear pad wears the disc will have to bend farther and farther towards the rear pad as the rear pad wears down and force is applied to the front pad. These brakes are designed with the main goal being cheap. With this design that rear brake mount should technically be ever so slightly tightened after every trip you take on the scooter and use/wear-down the brakes to minimize the amount of bend the disc has to do to bite. Which is crazy since that adjustment is impossible to get to without taking off the entire caliper. Loctite'ing the set screw makes sense. Replacing the brakes on a widewheel with some quality MTB hydraulic brakes would be my first upgrade to this scooter.
Agree, but I dont see that the outer pad should be adjusted by anything else than the arm/wire? The small screw I thought was only to hold the magnet for the outer pad?
@@ApolloScooters Actually, i would like to know that, is this failure always noticeable from the outside with naked eye? The point is if the break caliper lever is in good angle, the break loose cannot happen with me?
I was changing the brake pad and a spring came lose, I have no idea where it goes and I didnt see any springs on the wide wheel in the video, I do have a wide wheel pro..
Apollo Mvmt maybe for another video you guys could do how to replace the led likes in the front and tail end of the scooter or you guys could show how to maintain the disk its self the more Videocon you guys put out there for this scooter the ppl will buy trust me I got stopped this weekend about 5 times by ppl talking about how now there's a bunch of videos to fix the marcane and they were very interested
why? Small toys like this are not cars or motorcycles, and so its entirely different to a multi thousand dollar vehicle. These things are for enthusiasts, so just like your skateboard or bicycle you'd be doing this yourself too. I think its fantastic that the internet actually gives people a way to pass on this information to the end users quickly.
@@finophile I take my Cannondale to a bike shop for repairs, unless it's some simple task like putting air in tires or adjusting the seat. A skateboard typically is not motorized, so the amount of repairs is minimal or replacing it is not a financial hardship. This $1200 toy is not on the same quality build as a Boosted scooter. Also at least with that brand if something as serious as a faulty break occurs, there is someplace to take it to/ship it that will correct the problem. This Wide Wheel issue is DANGEROUS & should be addressed by a professional not the consumer 💯
@@vincedemo2752 then you should take your wide wheel to the same bike shop that ypu take tour canondale to, they can put a new disc caliper on it for you. Its literally 2 bolts and a cable retaining nut.
@@finophile simple solution, yes. However is not something I thought I would need to address after spending $1200 & now incurring additional charges to correct an issue that is troubling for a consumer. I will eventually have to follow your last recommendation, however, 2 years from now when boosted has duel suspension on their scooters 🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@vincedemo2752 if you dream that no product is without fault then that is not a vision of reality. The reality is that it is probably a very small number of affected parts. I would laugh hard and long at those who blame a maker for this supplier side issue were that same thing to befall their own "chosen one" If you are interested to look into the problem and learn a little I have some good videos too, starting here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rQZTkWQ21qg.html I encourage you also to read my blog post here: cjeastwd.blogspot.com/2019/09/mercane-safety-issue.html Curiously when I was a kid (I'm over 50 now) saying that someone couldn't maintain a bicycle was quite the insult, yet now we are in a society where someone needs to do a video to show someone how to take a simple tool to a bolt and un do it. I feel this is indicative of the de-capicatation of society and endemic in now in our western society. We have become India (if you've lived there you'll perhaps understand what I mean, unless your a Braman en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braman.
