Brooster
07-10-2005, 06:04 PM
Our friend Skip (Scoghill) was nice enough to come over today with his two new i180s (one red, one yellow), and we gave them a good long run along the lake Michigan shoreline on a beautiful summer morning and afternoon.
It was the first time I'd ever even seen an i180 in person, let alone ridden one, and I have to say I'm well impressed. Skip and I rode for exactly 15 miles today, and I also have to say that my legs were tired when we got back. We stopped at Moody's (a great hamburger joint with a nice outdoor beer garden) for lunch at the halfway mark, and did charge each machine for about 30-40 minutes (we only had one charging cord with us). At the end of 15 miles, and we didn't necessarily go slow, we were each just flashing on the third bar. That's incredible.
--The Lithium Phosphate batteries are wonderful. It's so great to be able to go out and enjoy the Seg for a good part of a day, go further than we'd ever dream of going with NiMH, and not worry a bit about having enough juice to get home. It's like the biggest source of anxiety is all of the sudden just not there.
--I'm still not crazy about the fenders and the wheels. The wheels are more difficult to clean dust from, and the fenders strike me as having been designed with scrimping on material costs in mind. I still think the splash guards look a little goofy. I do like the red and yellow colors, a lot.
--I was very impressed with Version 14 software. The red key "snap" has been dampened just a bit, but that's not entirely a bad thing. Outside of that, there was no appreciable difference from my beloved Version 11.0. I intentionally took the i180 up a couple of fairly steep grass hills and did a 360 spin on a steep incline, and there was absolutely none of the obnoxious stick-shake chatter that characterized Version 12.0 in those situations. Again, I'm well impressed, and wouldn't hesitate for a minute to have this code loaded on my machine.
All in all, the i180 with Lithium Phosphate batteries is a solid performer, capable of easily doubling the fun of a day out Segging. It was a whole new experience, one that I really enjoyed.
Brooster
It was the first time I'd ever even seen an i180 in person, let alone ridden one, and I have to say I'm well impressed. Skip and I rode for exactly 15 miles today, and I also have to say that my legs were tired when we got back. We stopped at Moody's (a great hamburger joint with a nice outdoor beer garden) for lunch at the halfway mark, and did charge each machine for about 30-40 minutes (we only had one charging cord with us). At the end of 15 miles, and we didn't necessarily go slow, we were each just flashing on the third bar. That's incredible.
--The Lithium Phosphate batteries are wonderful. It's so great to be able to go out and enjoy the Seg for a good part of a day, go further than we'd ever dream of going with NiMH, and not worry a bit about having enough juice to get home. It's like the biggest source of anxiety is all of the sudden just not there.
--I'm still not crazy about the fenders and the wheels. The wheels are more difficult to clean dust from, and the fenders strike me as having been designed with scrimping on material costs in mind. I still think the splash guards look a little goofy. I do like the red and yellow colors, a lot.
--I was very impressed with Version 14 software. The red key "snap" has been dampened just a bit, but that's not entirely a bad thing. Outside of that, there was no appreciable difference from my beloved Version 11.0. I intentionally took the i180 up a couple of fairly steep grass hills and did a 360 spin on a steep incline, and there was absolutely none of the obnoxious stick-shake chatter that characterized Version 12.0 in those situations. Again, I'm well impressed, and wouldn't hesitate for a minute to have this code loaded on my machine.
All in all, the i180 with Lithium Phosphate batteries is a solid performer, capable of easily doubling the fun of a day out Segging. It was a whole new experience, one that I really enjoyed.
Brooster