Beeps

Your wheel talks to you through beeps. Speed alarm, load alarm, low battery alarm - each one is the motor telling you it’s running out of headroom.

Types of beeps

Not all beeps are equal. Speed beeps trigger at configurable thresholds. The 80% alarm (five rapid beeps per second on Begode/Gotway) is hardcoded and cannot be disabled. Low battery beeps are slower, signaling reduced voltage and therefore reduced available torque.

Why beeps aren’t enough

Beeps assume you can hear them. In wind, in traffic, with a helmet and music - you might not. That’s why tiltback exists as a physical backup. Beeps are information. Tiltback is intervention.

The real problem

Beeps tell you where the limit is right now, in current conditions. But conditions change in milliseconds - a gust of wind, a pothole, a sudden lean. By the time the beep fires, the margin may already be gone.

555 take

Don’t ride the beeps. If you hear them, you’re already too close. Back off immediately. Set your first alarm conservatively and treat it as a hard ceiling, not a suggestion.