What is Inmotion thinking with this KIT?! | A MASSIVE / HEAVY 3A Charger?! Inmotion V14 

4:28 That the wheel toppled over in deep sand was due to the lack of traction, not the lack of power, at least that is what the shown footage clearly suggests. The wheel continues to grab a hole in the sand even when the forward tilt is >45º. That's more like a rider error than the fault of the wheel, unless you expect to have electronic traction control (which cannot provide unlimited traction too). It's a nice experiment, but you can't possibly conclude from this footage that the wheel is "easy to cutout", or more appropriately worded, easy to overlean due to the lack of power.

Are you sure it comes with no pads? Everywhere I've seen they advertise the orange pads.

Thx for your honest review, appreciate it 🤘👊

Honest is honest! We appreciate you, man😊

I definitely appreciate an honest opinion. Good work 👍

Most mountain bikers either send their shocks off to get the internals worked on or just say screw it and buy a new shock. Being able to quickly access and replace the shocks on these is clutch AF. Hopefully leaper kim gets on that.

It's a great build and I think you'll be happy if you bought this wheel, but I feel Inmotion needs to improve on the total package to be competitive.

I was actually looking to buy this exact one, but I’m glad I found this video. It definitely does not sound like you’re hating on the wheel. You sound like you really like it. It’s just you seem like you’re trying to help us not get into a wheel that we’re gonna end up hating form the start, so I appreciate your help for that. These are definitely not cheap and I know for a fact, I don’t wanna spend over $2000 on one of these and then find out that I really don’t like it and then I have to go out and spend even more money on a different one so these videos are helpful

First of all, thank you for giving us your honest option about v14, from what I read in forums, the points you have commented are the ones that people complain about the most. They also mention that plastics suffer too much if you abuse them. Would you be able to try a bg extreme??? It would be interesting to know your opinion. Thank you!!!

Did you dial things in the app? some people brought this up as important to take full advantage of the torq in the wheel. Specially between brake and acceleration assist

Always good to get a range of opinions from many viewpoints before coming to conclusions.

Great review. Loved it. Stay honest

I enjoy hearing the bad w/the good. Overall your content is exceptional quality for euc influencers and I appreciate you man. If you come back to AZ lets ride.

thank you for giv to us that ifo, you are amazing and your camera man too

what makes the IM charger incompatible with other chargers? is it just a different pinout, or is there some "smart" function that prevents compatability?

Buen video ❤

Riddle me this: I remember as a boy, leaving my RC cars plugged into the wall, to charge over night, so that I can play with them. Now I can gas my Sherm S up fully, in 3.5 to 4 hours, with 8 amp charging. Literally insaneee.

With this review you’ve earned the ringbell sub from me. Honest, valid points. Especially as V14 is very pricey

Thank you very much; I truly appreciate your review. Is there any possibility of the Begode Extreme range test? I’ve come across conflicting information so far.

Why he say cutout if he mean overlean??? 🤪 Cut out = Electric failure = crash VS Overlean = rider over/torque/lean euc = Beach accident OMG!!!!

I have it on my v12. If you are on comfort mode the top speed decreases when you reduce the pedal sensitivity to less than 57% .

It is really not a problem to solder new connector to cheap 8A Master fast charger :) And you can charge 16A (I have seen even 18A) maximum :)

Try the black 50s version if it is going to cut out please..

Besides loving the honest feedback on the V14, I also appreciate the call out on Lynx suspension maintenance, which gave me pause; can you swap it out for something with easier maintenance?

It is unfortunate that this wheel has so many issues. Hope that they resolve some of them in following batches.

If the pedals are softer, it accelerates faster. So to compensate for this faster ramp up in power draw the wheel beeps earlier. I think this overly cautious design is because of the V13 cutouts, where people accelerated hard near top speed and cutout without beeps at least 2 seconds before cutout. This is just IM responding to feedback from (the boldest/dumbest depending on your viewpoint) riders.

The cutout is likely from them erring on the side of caution so there's even less risk of it catastrophically failing. That sentiment is echoed by their tweaked soft mode keeping the speed down so noobs falling forward don't get themselves into trouble - experienced riders they expect to be stronger/skilled and with Inmotion's tendency to bury a lot of detailed configuration down in the menus (remember when they were the only ones that gave you sliders for acceleration *and* deceleration - V12) it's likely advanced users will be able to dial in the different modes just like they want them - options can be added, if new ones are needed. Love when you decide to publish content, but even more I've been following forever and I also know that if I want to find every single wart in a product - especially Inmotion - this is the channel where I'll find them and this did not disappoint. YT randomly deletes my subs these days (when they dropped the cap to 999 it wreaked havoc on my feeds) so I have to find the content I want manually lol this was actually a pretty fun video. This is my real name so when people say "how you know what you're talking about", I'm not promoting but a chunk of my career is on LI so they can just go look at my proven skillsets. Honestly, I think they released this so they could have a product in the space - I don't think they want to go bigger, higher voltage, etc but are waiting for the next jump in EUC tech so they can build *that* instead of another variation on the same design themes - they can't even change their brand identity now until there's a technology shift because the EUC market isn't anywhere close to the "fat tire e bike" volumes, so they have to keep to their design guidelines that people are used to so the products don't outright alienate their little slice. Once tech configurations shift or leap up (different drives, transmissions, gearing, power improvements in storage and efficiency, etc) they can decide whether to try and differentiate from everyone *and* themselves, or just keep going on the same path until they're almost the same footprint as other PEV, losing part of their uniqueness/distinction. IMO the industry hasn't even landed on a really good suspension design - everything has a slider and that means you're basically just riding forks, which doesn't really manage forward impacts on the wheel like a swingarm type suspension can. When you encounter an obstacle, the physics only allow you to go UP so you're being thrown forward while you traverse it and need to reduce speed massively or damage something. There was a fork built for downhill MTB that the company went out of business, but to see what I'm trying to describe web search for "trust message fork"; the linkage allows the offset of the turn axis to be even more favorable while allowing obstacles to kick the wheel backwards as well as up so the main mass continues on at a higher rate than if it had to simply pogo up off of it. The Lauf Carbonara is another fork that uses compliant mechanisms instead of a mechanical linkage, resulting again, in an impact motion that kicks up and back but also is nearly impossible to break with zero maintenance. If EUC suspension could do that, there would be a lot less faceplants from curbs. Like, a *lot* - maybe even knock off most of the curb dumps completely.

Zen, as always, great videos. What after market items/parts and what hacks would you do to resolve the negatives? How do we make the V14 wonderful? 😊

This is the Inmotion V14 Adventure Electric Unicycle 50S, Upgraded Suspension version?

V12 same thing. They call it dynamic speed limit. There’s certain percents that raise the limit. V12 also has basic and fancy mode AND commute and off road mode. Sounds like it only has the commute and sport

Does the lynx come with pads?

Not sure the beach test is really a cut out. Isnt the wheel just slipping in the sand , tilting forward and then getting angle based shut off?

I'd like to guess that coding is a tricky wheezil. Soft mode could be more complex than hard so takes more power.

You said at the beginning that you’d had no cutouts with the wheel….until you tried to dig a hole with it on a beach…. Actually, I don’t really see that as an issue.. no one is going to do that in the real world. And another point on the beach scene..a wheel with a bigger diameter wheel..20” for example..isn’t going to dig holes in the sand as easily as a smaller 16” wheel.. Regarding the pedal softness effecting the available speed….Your wheel was a pre production wheel wasn’t it? Do the newer production wheels do the same? It would be good to hear some feedback on that. 👍

The Lynx and the V14 cost the same? You compare those 2 wheels, but I'm not quite sure that they are in the same league. The performance per dollar could be a good idea for comparison those wheels.

Yeah, I didn't feel a difference in comfort vs sport. Kind of disappointing, but maybe a firmware fix. Funny though, you seem to want a comfier mode, but i thought it was missing the sportier mode. I think if you keep mentioning it's more expensive than its competitors and yet keep comparing it to the Lynx, you should be more clear. The range and charger is indeed disappointing, but it's plenty for commuting. You ride to work and back and have plenty left over to ride to dinner and then charge overnight. I don't know how many people like me are buying this wheel for commuting though. But even not being a content creator I enjoy having a super powerful and nimble wheel I ride in short bursts back and forth every day.

Master Zen, you speak truth in the face of mediocrity.

Fwiw, the V13 has the same limitation on pedal stiffness and top speed / alarms... just throwing that out there.

With all respect, I don't think it's fair to mention the bent rim on the Lynx. If you watch how he crashed it and how the EUC flipped and landed sideways on the rim I don't think anything that weighs 88 pounds could've survived an impact like that.

I need inmotion to build another v12 with sus haha good to see someone being honest ..i see most reviewers r scare to talk bad about the v14 lol

The rim on the Lynx bends? That's a deal breaker.

It comes with pads.

Hit me up for a fast charger. I sell one that works for this and the Lynx as well as the 168V wheels that are on the horizon :)

now you're my favorite reviewer!

That would be actually so cool if you if you would buy me one

my dealer let me swap my v14 preorder to lynx....u saved me dude!

You could be totally honest without (over-)emphasizing the negatives as much as you do. Just saying, no need to make enemies where there aren't any. It looks like with software fixes and another charger the wheel would be just fine or even better than just fine, apart from the rather excessive consumption (2400 Wh / 40 km = 60Wh/km, usual consumption is more like 20Wh/km, but of course aggressive riding makes a big difference).

Yes please move on to the wheels that you like…

40km range you say? It is horrible😢

seems a POS euc overall lol

Less than 40KM range for guys who weigh as little as y’all, easy cut-outs and 8-hour slow-charging?! 😱

I feel like you have it in for IM man. You've been overly negative from the minute you stepped on it. The v14 has the most torque of a 16 inch wheel AFAIK. The plastic side fairing are that way so you can EASILY replace in event of a crash (can u say that for most other wheels/brands?) so there's method to the madness there. Of course no wheel is perfect but far out man, try and be a bit more objective. Also you have MEGA options for brake assist/accel assist etc in the app, did you even try to tweak it???

wah okay... i cancel my pre-order..

Such a hater. Why do you always hate on inmotion wheels? You've been hating on them since the v12.

It’s very good to hear that this unit sucks

40km?! That's so bad, nothing wrong with the wheel?

w.h per KM good thing about inmotion wheels is the store the w.h/per KM from day 1 average. so keen to learn about that.