The Assassin 🔪 That Changed My Mind - Begode A2 EUC Review
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- čas přidán 11. 06. 2024
- I had the pleasure to ride and review the Begode A2. I used two different electric unicycles: the infamous "assassin A2" that cut out, currently owned by@roghaj, and a demo unit supplied by Next Gen Mobility. Spoiler alert: I was afraid to like this wheel, but it won my heart. Watch to see why!
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Hook
00:00:31 Intro
00:01:21 The Assassin A2 Story
00:05:59 The Fire Story
00:07:09 Conclusions about the Incidents
00:07:30 A2 Review
00:11:40 Expectation Management
00:12:11 Final Thoughts
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It was a pleasure! Thanks for having me.
I mean I'm a newer rider and I learned on the mten4. Rode it to work 15mi round trip every day for 5+ months until I got the mini bull. I understand why people say its a toy however after putting 1800mi on the mten4 I have a hard time thinking about it as anything other than a wonderful machine
It is a wonderful machine! I regard it as a toy due to the very different way it rides compared to other EUCs, but I'm glad you get so much utilitarian use out of it and it's been so reliable and useful to you.
@@WheelGoodTime you're not wrong about that. I can't lean to accelerate on the mten4 pretty much at all and have to use my toes/torque on the unit. I also have it set to tiltback at 19mph and I ride the tilt the entire way. I was feeling really unsafe by it and so i got the mini. The first time I looked at the floor to go fast was really something. You can put your body in front of the mten4 but not really bend. The ride dynamics are entirely different but the mechanisms behind it are the same and do pass back and forth. The only issue I had at first with the mini was that it was so damn heavy respectively that it was awkward to get on. I'm getting better at mounting and its still heavy for me a little bit. I am rather small. Have a hard time getting good torque onto the unit with the pedals/pads but with how much I can lean over it its fine for now. My top speed is 41mph which is good for me. The advantage for me for the mten4 over the a2 is that with this nice weather the mten4 sortof lives in NY trunk right now. Usually because I forget to grab it mind you, I feel really bad that its become something of a second thought. So whenever I'm forced to drive I always have a wheel and it takes up basically no space and I feel confident enough to ride at a rreduced speed with reduced gear. Its like an edc thing; I don't leave the house without it unless I'm on the mini. And trust, i have a bag that's purpose made for holding the mten4 if I wanted to.. I would. Thing is weightless. Its convenience is worth every penny of its small price tag. Was much easier to convince the wife for new riders. I think wrong way actually said in his video about it that he was worried because of its sick looks and low price tag that it would draw in new riders that would be better suited to not this. But I feel like the ones that do get it will transition well to a faster wheel if they even need to. If you could put a better motor or more batteries in this package I might not have upgraded. Even the 750wh does more speed than me T.T and mind you even the 20mph that I get is flying compared to some of the earliest wheels people still ride today
I ride it as a daily commuter
I just took it on the offroad trails. Did epic
Uncle Roger euc always have insightful opinions. 😮👍
Glad you gave your comments on it i just bought one!
I live in the UK where it is not possible to buy the A2 Begode wheel, so I ordered it direct from China on AliExpress and six weeks later it finally turned up. At first the charger supplied with the wheel didn't charge so I bought a replacement from Speedyfeet which arrived pronto and at last I was able to ride the thing. I have to say I agree with this review that it is a delightful wheel to ride especially off road until one day it just stopped working for no apparent reason when I paused for a moment to check a text on my phone. Fortunately I was close to home because I had to carry it and at 22kilos that is not much fun. I opened it up took it to an ebike technician I know and there was nothing to see and no visible sign of damage. I am trying to get Begode to send me a new motherboard but they are implying that it is because I have ridden it through large puddles and on muddy tracks that it has broken down. There is no sign of water ingress and the wheel runs smoothly once the mosfets are disconnected so as far as I can tell it is another electronic failure and everyday I am in touch with the seller of the wheel in China but without success. So as things stand I have an £800 load of junk when all I want to do is get back to riding it, at 73 years of age it is one of the few pleasures I can get. Heres hoping🤞.
Wow! 73 years old! You're an amazing dude! I wish you to continue to soar above the earth! Greetings from St. Petersburg!
Thanks for the complement@@devili190 . I have got the wheel working again but only after paying Begode £148 more to send me a new motherboard, which was fairly easy to fit and off I went able to ride again. I am annoyed with Begode who claim I had misused the wheel and allowed water to get into the electronics despite the fact that I showed them several videos of the perfectly dry interior of the machine - I think they just wanted to get out of paying for their faulty machine but not being an electronics expert I can't prove it. Meanwhile the wheel is still working fine and is great fun to ride, as ever.
Nobody is going to read past the first six sentences if you put your entire life story on here no one's going to read it
Thank you for the video! I think we all benefit from analysis of when people have had cutouts and injuries. I'm not as tech savvy as Roger so I wouldn't trust taking a diode out but it tells me in a very layman's sense that begode does not have the robustness of tech as, say, Inmotion. Great videos! Keep it up!
I might be off but I remember the diode is on the battery management chip, whatever effect it has on the battery performance must not be immediate and likely won’t effect the performance when he’s only “testing”,shorter rides on it.
awesome review🤙
i have 3600 km on my a2 and it never acted funny or failed me
I see the A2 as a good little errand wheel. The MTen4 seems more like a fun little play thing that may be good for hauling out the trash or something, but from what I've heard you get death wobbles like crazy on it, so the MTen4 is definitely not a beginner wheel. It's nice that there's a compact option in the A2 for that.
After overpowering my KS-14D **yet again**, going over a large bump in the middle of an intersection with cars waiting on me, I appreciate being reintroduced to the A2, potential warts and all!
Finally I see the comment that the screen doesn't flash. Thought so too from a hypothetical point that maybe the Begode screen refreshes at a rate lower than the camera frame rate making the screen appear to flash. Thanks for the confirmation
Agree on the stock pads really needed to be replaced and the trolleys it totally blocks the lights, in all it's my replacement for my now not working mcm5 as my commuters and as u said last mile
Got my a2 made my own pads.....I'm 277 pounds and it rolls me up and down hills lil jumps and is so much fun just to cruise through grass sidewalks all of it. Next for me? Maybe v14!
Nice wheel. Although, as a User, I did not know you had to gave a certain angle you could lean your wheel. However, I also think it inexcusable to measure temperature on a mainboard and let it get so hot, it catches fire. I thought we were past that point.
I do agree, though, the A2 is, at least on paper, an amazing machine and makes me excited for the future wheels of Begode!
So no more fires? First timer
I've been trying to decide if I should buy a Sherman S, V13, or V14 and it's been quite challenging to find any incidents of fire on these wheels. When it comes to security flaws, its usually Begode or Kingsong wheels it seems. I'm transitioning from a Ninebot Z10, which I heard has been quite well designed, so I feel like I can trust it, but then Sherman S with 3600 Wh seems like quite a powerful fire bomb if something goes wrong, especially since there is not battery temperature monitoring and some say there is no waterproofing on the controller board. :/
There have been zero fire incidents from any of those EUCs, and not a single battery fire from any EUC model since the Kingsong S20 (now called the S22). You are pretty safe choosing any of those options, depending on what your intended use case scenario is. You can buy any of those with confidence that they won't burst into flames. The days of current generation EUCs having battery fires is over. 😊
@@WheelGoodTime Thanks for the reply, it's quite reassuring to hear. 😃 My primary need for a wheel right now is for longer distance travel, both for personal leisure and for grocery shopping, all while ensuring comfort for my knees and lower back. Given these requirements, the Sherman S seems like a good purchase, especially considering I tend to ride at lower speeds, which should minimize maintenance needs.
Where can I get those pads on the A2?. I just ordered a unit.
Those were 3d-printed, I'm not sure by whom. In order to get those pads on, you have to cut off the built-in (not very good) pads to create a flat mounting surface. On my personally owned A2, I don't have the heart yet to cut off those pads, in case I mess it up 😂 If you know someone who does pad 3D printing in your area/country, there's lots of designs that you can choose from on thingiverse. 😊
It looks like ewheels is going to start selling a 50s version of the A2. Do you think this will combat the battery sag issue?
I absolutely do! That's great news!
50s version question mark what the hell
Hey any ideas in adding pads to this a2
It takes a brave soul, but you'd need to cut off the "pads" that are included - I suggest using a knife and a metal file to get it smooth-ish. Then lots of Velcro. It won't be pretty but it sure is useful
Wait. You were there at GMR (Mt Baldy)?
Sure was!
Waaaa... Man. I hold my wheels turned on against the wall turned on almost always (in restaurants, when going out, at work) - often leaving them on close to an hour FOR YEARS since ninebot s2. Nothing never happened - nothing never heated, especially burned.
@1:48. What wheel is that in the background?! That is fricken small!
That's the "mtiny" - a homemade micro EUC 😊
@@WheelGoodTime Thanks for the reply and info!
Came here to ask the same question! NICE!
I'd love the A2 as a replacement for the KS14D, but the lack of a good trolley handle with a killswitch on lift, that doesn't block the rear light, is a huge bummer for an errand wheel.
I actually just got the A2 for my daughter - they redesigned the trolley handle and it doesn't block the tail light any more 😊
@@WheelGoodTime Yesss, let's go!!
@@WheelGoodTime Where did you buy it from? I'm stilling seeing a lot of the old "bad" versions.
@@leetNightshade I got it all from next gen mobility. The new trolley handle has bars that are on the sides in the rear part of the wheel so they don't obstruct the rear light.
Haven't seen a single advertisement referring the A2 as the Assassin. Its not on their website either
That's the nickname it was given because a prominent person had their ankle broken on it within the first few minutes of riding. It's not officially called "the assassin" 😜
@@WheelGoodTime oh ok thanks, i was searching for the assassin unicycle I liked the name
How is it comparing to MCM5?
Hard to say. I haven't had enough time with the mcm5 to give an accurate comparison. But, I like the A2 enough that I ordered one for my daughter shortly after making this video 😁
@@WheelGoodTime Thank you
Wait? Doesn't the A2 have a smart bms, it's it supposed to cut off before there is a chance of a fire
Nope. Dumb BMS with fuses.
I've been teaching people for years, I use MTen3 and MTen4 as my primary tools for getting people moving if they are having trouble with bigger wheels. The notion that riders of bigger wheels find little wheels challenging at first isn't relevant; we go the other way. The little wheels are easier to ride at low speed, gain confidence, and then transition up to bigger wheels once they feel comfortable riding at the necessary minimum speed. Also, I've been riding without gear and without incident for seven years going on eight, 25,000+ kms, no plans to change that.
You know gear doesnt mean you wont get hurt...
1:47 what da heck is that wheel in the background.
Lol that's the "mtiny" - a homemade EUC. They put the battery in a wearable backpack 🤣
Please stop bagging on the MTen's as a training wheel. It is the perfect wheel to learn on. low center of gravity, low pedals and low power. The issue is when you graduate to bigger wheels the MTen's will feel scetchy.
Thanks for your feedback. I still would never recommend an mten to an adult learner, because the writing mechanics are completely different. Since you have to put the weight of the wheel on your ankles on an mten, as opposed to the calf region on other eucs, it's a rather different learning experience. I'm not saying that those wheels are bad, it's just different by comparison, and the a2 is about the smallest I would go for recommending to an adult learner. Again. It's not a bad wheel, it's just in a different category because of the different ride mechanics.
@@WheelGoodTime As I mentioned above, I'm as close as it gets to a professional wheel trainer, six years of teaching people and getting paid to do it, and MTen3 is so useful as a training tool that I have five of them so I can do group lessons and keep everyone occupied.
i had a power cut out up a hill at 50% battery maybe over power it to cut out and its slammed me into the ground no warning or beeps at all at 18mph
Do you remember what your pwm safety margin percentage was set at?
@@WheelGoodTime I think my power alarms were set at 85% also forgot to mention it was on the mten4 lol
@@WheelGoodTime what is it pwm if that set lower will it cut out at lower speeds ?
Assassin? Looks like a blue minion.
Mten3 skills only work on mten3.
Nobody mentions that an over inflated tire drastically increases the possibilities of wobbles.
I don't believe anything was wrong with that wheel. Marty is a really bad rider, let's be honest here.
Aw he's a good rider 😂 he's got more experience than you and I combined most likely. But hey, it could have been rider error for sure. I have enough confidence in the A2 that I bought one for my daughter, so I truly think it just got a rough start but is still a reliable wheel.
How can you expect anyone to take you seriously when you're not wearing a helmet?!! Maybe you should visit some former euc riders who have gotten traumatic brain injuries and long-term disability because they weren't wearing a helmet.
Thanks for your input! I acknowledged my bad choice in the video as well 😉
It looks like he's going about 5 mph in this video. Jeff, I hope you wear a helmet when you're taking your dog for a walk, too.
I was going between 5 and 12 mph in the entire video 😊 I believe in progressively gearing up as speed increases. I acknowledge I could have sworn a helmet to set a good example for CZcams purposes, but in reality I wouldn't wear one typically going that speed in real life as an experienced rider
Roger making excuse after excuse for Begode! He always does that. Kinda hard to trust these guys when they are willing to to sacrifice the well-being of others. He and others just need to tell the truth, it's begode' s fault, they don't properly check their wheels before sending them out
This is one single isolated incident that has not been replicated after extensive troubleshooting, and not a single other A2 has been known to have this happen. It's easy to blame "evil Begode" but this really hasn't happened at any other time with any other A2. It just so happens that it occurred with a higher profile figure in the EUC community... Roger did tell the truth.
@@WheelGoodTime yes but the history of Begode and their carelessness isn't isolated. Every EUC they come out with there is always a serious problem. My biggest thing with them is that they never ever take resefor NOTHING, NOTHING at all and always try to blame the rider. That's why I don't like them. At least if there was a problem with Inmotion and Kingsong they would take responsibility and that's respectable.
@@curtflirt2 I understand your frustration. Please don't accuse Roger of dishonesty after he put forth a good faith effort to troubleshoot it. Remember that every single brand except LK has had numerous battery fires and has accepted the same level of responsibility as Begode (very little).
@@WheelGoodTime Aight, I'll cut him some slack
well...they trying to get in bed with begode. these wheels are not cheap!
In the nicest way possible, I assert that Marty is lame.