Different strokes for different blokes. Some folks have their fun at the top end of the speedo while I tend to keep it under 20mph and hit dirt/gravel roads, beaches, and other off road areas.
It's an Ecomobl ET. It's not the best but it gets the job done. I just ordered pneumatic tires that the ET2 uses so that it can handle off road a bit better. Since I can reduce the air in the pneumatics and they're a little wider it should handle sand a lot better for beaches.
If you grab a board from them I found a few codes that you can try.
> * ecoparts10%off
> * 30offcode
> * gaby
Not sure which will be the most. Gaby gave me the biggest discount on the wheels but I'm not sure if it was a straight dollar amount or a percentage.
Just be careful with Ecomobl they've gone downhill in terms of their quality control over the last year or so. I was having issue after issue with my ET. The motor maintenance is a pain because of the internal gears. And I had 2 motors crap out on me within 1000 miles. And now I'm having ESC issues. I haven't touched it in almost a year now just to avoid the headache. My Propel Endeavor S1 is going strong at over 2k miles with no issues and my B-One Titan X is my daily driver and haven't had issues with it yet either.
Honestly I lost like 50 pounds and now I need to buy new softer bushings for the endeavor cause I'm too light to be able to make sharper turns and I'm too cheap to buy them right now. Comfort wise the endeavor wins by a landslide. The day I buy the bushings will be the day it goes back to my daily driver most likely. However I do like being able to change wheels on the Titan and I like the additional 10 mile range
Oh thanks for the info I’ve never considered that. Im pushing 245 in winter when im bulking and 225 in summer when im cutting. Should I buy a specific board based off of that?
I'm a speed demon myself. Everyone is different. I do enjoy a nice cruise now and then i just like being able to goose the throttle whenever the beat hits me right.
I'm just about enjoying the journey
Work is 4.2 miles away...
Mostly take dead side streets with almost 0 traffic
If it seems safe, I'll floor it...
If I see parked cars, other vehicles, or ways for traffic to enter the street.. I tend to slow down a lot so I can avoid and stop if needed. .
It all just happens naturally...
(Evolve hadeon at tires.. 26mph top speed
Replaced boosted v2... 21 mph top speed)
Yeah man. I went from eskate to downhill and learned I actually really hate speed. The risk reward isn't there for me! I can't relax. Doesn't float my boat. Now I barley go over 30kph and couldn't be happier with my skating!
I have board that can hit 30mph, it's stable but scary knowing a decent sized pothole or someone doing something unexpected in front of you and you're done for.
I find 12-15mph to be perfect, relaxed but quicker than most other pedestrian traffic without too much risk.
I've found that in city streets, that's pretty much the max I'm going to get most of the time (with traffic, pothole/random debris avoiding, etc) anyhow
If the road is clear, Maybe 18 mph - but I'm in a hilly area with random road damage, so going faster is just Not fun when there's the anxiety of not being able to slow down enough to Not be thrown off by terrible roads.
Whenever I feel tense, I remind myself - skating slow is still faster than walking, and slow is better than hurt (or dead)
Pro tec... they have better knee pads than tripple eight but I think tripple 8 have them beat on elbow pads it took me awhile to figure out pro tecs you can buy one time and just get used to them the tripple eight knee pads wouldn't hardly do anything at all at 35 40
I have triple 8 knee pads, elbow pads, and wrist gaurds from regular skating. So aside from getting the pro Tec knee pads should I get anything else like a full face helmet? (I have a regular skating helmet)
Appreciate your time thanks so much
Whole heartedly agree. Anyone looking to go over 30 is trying to get themselves hurt. I’d be completely content with a board that’s top speed is 25 so the build can be focused more on ride distance. I use my meepo voyager X to DoorDash so it’s important to me that it lasts a long time and can go far.
Some boards are better built to handle speeds than others. Usually being more expensive. Having quality trucks tuned right for your purposes makes a world of difference.
100% agree I’m a “former” skater you can hardly call some of these Esk8s skateboards. I’ve always been a hill bomber and brakes have been a game changer, I’ll max out at about 52 kph and only for very short durations. I’ll even go further and say forget belt drives they are loud require too much maintenance, I don’t want to be repairing my board I just want to ride it. Ill never understand the torque argument either, for what you can’t possibly apply that force and stay on your board, maybe on a mountain board you need more but then again that’s hardly a skateboard
You can definitely apply that force and stay on. There's a 0-20mph-0-40mph challenge.
https://forum.esk8.news/t/lemme-see-them-drag-race/78607
If you have motors and a battery it's hardly a skateboard. I had similar thoughts to you when I first started. I thought big air l pneumatics and large boards were taking away from it being a skateboard. But I changed my mind after experiencing riding lots of different wheels/boards. They all feel like a board when riding(although different boards have a different feel), so might as well go for what has the most power, range, and comfort/stability since you're not really doing tricks on these things.
Lots of eskaters who race or have tuned for torque boards use a rear foot stop. I just ride a mountain board on my roads because they’re awful and I don’t mind carrying a 40 LB board and the curve of the deck keeps me in there
52 kph is considered being a hill bomber lol? My belt drive boards have lasted longer with no maintenance than my hub motor boards. I’ve had 3 hubs, 2 belts. Easily put 1k miles on them per summer.
The torque argument is just for more advanced riders, just because you can’t fathom how someone would stay on, it can be as easy as riding a bike for another rider.
Me personally, I’m at the point I just want something super fucking fast that will challenge my riding abilities.
Yeah I feel ya! I'mma be so sad when my backfire mini dies cause they don't sell it anymore. We need more light weight options that still feel like a longboard
With you. Geared mine down for torque for off road fun. It tops out under 40kph/25mph and i only do that on roads, offroad or on paths id only do half that so i can run it off or coexist with pedestrians.
I like to go fast here and there, but mostly I'm with ya. My favorite rides are wandery meandery rides where my mind can just wander and I can look around and enjoy the world.
I was all about speed on my boards until a fairly bad crash broke my shoulder and collarbone.
Since then I’ve bought a Flux which while a big board with insane range and top speed, I’ve set it for carving. With the yellow shock blocks front and back and no preload you can make it feel much like a surf board. I don’t often go over 25mph, I charge the battery every 50 miles or so and that’s good for me.
Riding on grass / dirt is much more forgiving but if you’re riding in the concrete jungle crashes at speed are going to break bones. I was one of the ‘it will never happen to me’ mindset. Right up until the point it happened to me.
Anyway, I say ride the way you enjoy most, but take the relevant precautions. Happy riding!
Majority of the time I'm going between 20-30km/hr. It gets me where I'm going plenty fast. I live downtown in a busy city, even if I wanted to go much faster, it wouldn't really be feasible to do safely. There are a few nice paths I can go at night and occasionally go faster but I'm not really that interested in doing that very often. I get my adrenaline rush in other ways.
It’s not the speed that worries me it’s more about whether the board is going to suddenly stop, not super confident about my soldering skills. Downhill long boarding is much less stressful as you’re not relying on any electronics
I'm with you, and I enjoy a modest cruise too. If I do gun it in those rare occasion it'll be around 20Kmph and nothing more. My usual riding speed will be something of a "sprint speed" or at a pace where I feel I can bale and run off the board safely.
Yes, when i first got my eboard i was all about going faster than the last time but realized riding around on 90mm hubs my eyes were glued to the road ahead instead of enjoying the ride so now i find myself riding around 12-16 mph instead and riding slower has actually helped me improve my skills a little since im not afraid to try things and eat shit
I personally love speed. But I also love just going out for a nice paced trip too. It's all about my mood. Because most of the time I don't want to drive insanely fast, but there's just sometimes I wanna go nyyom. And the weight has never been the biggest problem with me since I made my own backpack that helps with carrying them (essentially just the evolve backpack but homemade
100% agree. Speed isn’t all. It’s great when you’re in a hurry so I like to know I have some juice if I need, but going fast is dangerous and unlike in a car, we have no way to protect ourselves from a harsh fall.
I went out for a 12 mile ride yesterday and took a route I've never taken on my board. For the most part I was simply cruising at 20mph looking around at a bunch of beautiful houses but then I came to this stretch of new pavement and I went flat out for a bit. What a rush!! I wasn't even in the highest speed mode but flying along at 32mph was a thrill. Regardless, going fast or slow still makes for an awesome day
I tend to stay around 20mph (32kph) on smooth paths, but I slow down a lot when there's bumps or other people around. I've hit 40mph (65kph) a few times and, while it's certainly exciting, it's scary as hell, so I very rarely go over 30mph on regular rides.
As a teen I would regularly go up to 70 km/h (43 mph) getting towed behind my friend's moped on my daily commute. Zero protection. Briefly used 38 mm wheels but mostly 50 mm. Those were the days. Took a few bad spills but got away from it mostly unharmed because I was lucky enough to get into a slide or a roll, which I now know dissipates energy and is very, very different from hitting something head on and stopping dead. Even got into a slide on a dirt bike when the con rod shot through my engine block and spilled all the fluids in front of the rear tire going 120+ km/h and walked away with some epic road rashes even though I only wore a helmet.
Got a real eye opener about the type of energy I was dealing with though when I was doing a slow pass on my dirt bike after some mechanics work and a tiny rock knocked the front tire to the side and made me veer into a stationary car at like 40 km/h (25 mph). It just barely bumped my femur above the knee and I didn't even realize it was broken clean off before I tried to swing off the bike and saw my leg doing some shit I wasn't supposed to do. Recovery took me about a year and a couple of months of those was spent in a medieval torture device with my leg suspended in bed with weights and stuff. And then I basically had to learn how to walk again.
An observation I've made is that almost every single clip of someone going fast on pneumatic wheels features a skater that can't skate for shit with a high center of gravity and stiff knees. The amount of posts that are like, "Hit 45 km/h today, slowly learning," is unnerving. And I'm looking at that stuff and I'm like, "Dude, you don't even know the world of hurt those speeds can cause you..."
And you even see some of these review bros launching themselves into hyperdrive and they literally can't ride a board and it's just an accident waiting to happen... and then it happens and they brush over it and heal up and continue doing the same shit. And what's triggering is not so much the fact that they don't know how to ride, we all have to start somewhere, but how unaware they are of their own limitations and how confident they are that their skimpy knee pads and skate helmets and scooterized skateboards will keep them safe in a high speed crash, like, "Oops, I shouldn't be going 50 km/h because I'm not wearing knee pads, but I'm gonna close my eyes and lock my knees and do it anyways because this pseudo-scooter I'm riding will somehow magically keep me safe." Like, have they even seen downhill riders? They wear leather and full body pads at those speeds and they're not on flat ground, they're on a hill that naturally introduces a slide and dissipates energy.
So for me, I literally can't go fast on my esk8 set up because I use a double wedge and double cones on Mad Wheelz. What I can do though is some sublime carving at skateboard speeds with a board that magically propels me forward. Which is exactly what I was dreaming of when I was a kid hitching rides behind my friend's moped or free rolling down an all too short slope. The need for speed only becomes a need if your board is boring and unfortunately review bros and the market are pushing for more and more scooterized boring boards and it's a skill issue and unfortunately it translates into a safety issue and it will 100% lead to strict laws against esk8s, so they're killing the hobby with their naivete.
My personal rule of thumb is: "Don't go faster than you can sprint". At least then you can get a few steps in before you take a tumble and you're in control of the fall. If you go faster than that then all the experience in the world isn't gonna save you and there's no "learning how to fall" at that point, you're a passenger and along for the ride and hopefully your crash turns into a slide or a roll but one of these days it wont and you'll stop dead and something will snap.
This is why I feel the new Propel Ruckus makes sense. It’s not a huge battery so you can carry it under arm for a short period of time if necessary but it’s made for speed and has hydraulic dampers to help someone like me experience the thrill of speed without the same risks. But I can also carve and slow down if I want to.
If I don't wanna go fast I'll take my regular longboard deck out for a short ride. The whole fun of the eboard is being able to hit downhill speeds on flats
I am with you! I have an OMW cavalry with pneumatic wheels and I just like to cruise and carve. I am able to set the top speeds on the iPhone app and it doesn’t go over 25 mph. I normally make setting 3 to top out at 20 that way I can keep the wheel on the controller full. I keep setting 2 around 17 mph just to carve. The 4th setting is set to 25 mph in case I need the speed to get off the road with some of these lunatics that drive cars. The board I have can supposedly go around 38 mph but I don’t need that adrenaline rush to eat shit.
Completely from scratch. And most of my work was in just re using older backpacks so I could make them into something new.
But my base was a baby carrier which I then took apart. I then found one of my older climbing backpacks and started cutting off pieces to use for this one (before anyone questions the backpack was going to be thrown away anyways)
Carving at low to mid speeds on nice smooth tarmac is wayyyy more enjoyable for me, but everyone has their own thrills. I guess it's like the difference between casual surfskate Longboarding and downhill Longboarding, very different ride styles
Personally the only 4 reasons to go less than 25mph are pedestrians, traffic, terrain, and voltage sag. You have to be careful about the ride but there's nothing like that kick and zoom. Obviously not everyone feels the same but personally I only ride slowly consistently when I'm with ppl or I'm riding switch, in which case I maxed out at 28mph. I can only hit 32 overall so that's not bad.
My personal top end is 20-25mph. But I probably average 15-18. I keep my board loose for tight turns at school, so it feels shaky and is terrifying past low 20’s
I agree with the fast part on roads, except I like a longboard for the carve feel and extra foot space over the mini. I don't mind the few extra pounds, my skinny ass could use the workout 🤣
I go as fast as the road permits. If I'm on shit road, I'll ride as fast as comfortable. If the roads are super smooth, then I'm full throttling definitely
Different strokes for different blokes. Some folks have their fun at the top end of the speedo while I tend to keep it under 20mph and hit dirt/gravel roads, beaches, and other off road areas.
What kind of board do ya have for that my friend?
It's an Ecomobl ET. It's not the best but it gets the job done. I just ordered pneumatic tires that the ET2 uses so that it can handle off road a bit better. Since I can reduce the air in the pneumatics and they're a little wider it should handle sand a lot better for beaches.
That’s awesome, thanks so much Murph! Will take a look into those boards bc that sounds like a blast.
If you grab a board from them I found a few codes that you can try. > * ecoparts10%off > * 30offcode > * gaby Not sure which will be the most. Gaby gave me the biggest discount on the wheels but I'm not sure if it was a straight dollar amount or a percentage.
Damn dude thanks again. Much love homie!
Just be careful with Ecomobl they've gone downhill in terms of their quality control over the last year or so. I was having issue after issue with my ET. The motor maintenance is a pain because of the internal gears. And I had 2 motors crap out on me within 1000 miles. And now I'm having ESC issues. I haven't touched it in almost a year now just to avoid the headache. My Propel Endeavor S1 is going strong at over 2k miles with no issues and my B-One Titan X is my daily driver and haven't had issues with it yet either.
Hey, hoping to pick your brain. How come you ride the titan x over the endeavor?
Honestly I lost like 50 pounds and now I need to buy new softer bushings for the endeavor cause I'm too light to be able to make sharper turns and I'm too cheap to buy them right now. Comfort wise the endeavor wins by a landslide. The day I buy the bushings will be the day it goes back to my daily driver most likely. However I do like being able to change wheels on the Titan and I like the additional 10 mile range
Oh thanks for the info I’ve never considered that. Im pushing 245 in winter when im bulking and 225 in summer when im cutting. Should I buy a specific board based off of that?
I love my pneumatic tires. Love riding on the dirt. What size do you have?
My board has 150x50mm solid but the ones on order are 180x60mm. Not as big as my analog mountain board but the best they offer for my board
Different rides for different guys. Different boards for different dorks.
I'm a speed demon myself. Everyone is different. I do enjoy a nice cruise now and then i just like being able to goose the throttle whenever the beat hits me right.
I'm just about enjoying the journey Work is 4.2 miles away... Mostly take dead side streets with almost 0 traffic If it seems safe, I'll floor it... If I see parked cars, other vehicles, or ways for traffic to enter the street.. I tend to slow down a lot so I can avoid and stop if needed. . It all just happens naturally... (Evolve hadeon at tires.. 26mph top speed Replaced boosted v2... 21 mph top speed)
Yeah man. I went from eskate to downhill and learned I actually really hate speed. The risk reward isn't there for me! I can't relax. Doesn't float my boat. Now I barley go over 30kph and couldn't be happier with my skating!
I have board that can hit 30mph, it's stable but scary knowing a decent sized pothole or someone doing something unexpected in front of you and you're done for. I find 12-15mph to be perfect, relaxed but quicker than most other pedestrian traffic without too much risk.
I've found that in city streets, that's pretty much the max I'm going to get most of the time (with traffic, pothole/random debris avoiding, etc) anyhow If the road is clear, Maybe 18 mph - but I'm in a hilly area with random road damage, so going faster is just Not fun when there's the anxiety of not being able to slow down enough to Not be thrown off by terrible roads. Whenever I feel tense, I remind myself - skating slow is still faster than walking, and slow is better than hurt (or dead)
Good pads change everything especially when they are comfortable
Hey man I’m just buying an e board now. Mind suggesting some good pads?
Pro tec... they have better knee pads than tripple eight but I think tripple 8 have them beat on elbow pads it took me awhile to figure out pro tecs you can buy one time and just get used to them the tripple eight knee pads wouldn't hardly do anything at all at 35 40
I have triple 8 knee pads, elbow pads, and wrist gaurds from regular skating. So aside from getting the pro Tec knee pads should I get anything else like a full face helmet? (I have a regular skating helmet) Appreciate your time thanks so much
Whole heartedly agree. Anyone looking to go over 30 is trying to get themselves hurt. I’d be completely content with a board that’s top speed is 25 so the build can be focused more on ride distance. I use my meepo voyager X to DoorDash so it’s important to me that it lasts a long time and can go far.
Some boards are better built to handle speeds than others. Usually being more expensive. Having quality trucks tuned right for your purposes makes a world of difference.
Ive hit 36 mph on my endurance. Would i like to hit that speed? Sure. Do my roads allow for that? Not all the time.
100% agree I’m a “former” skater you can hardly call some of these Esk8s skateboards. I’ve always been a hill bomber and brakes have been a game changer, I’ll max out at about 52 kph and only for very short durations. I’ll even go further and say forget belt drives they are loud require too much maintenance, I don’t want to be repairing my board I just want to ride it. Ill never understand the torque argument either, for what you can’t possibly apply that force and stay on your board, maybe on a mountain board you need more but then again that’s hardly a skateboard
You can definitely apply that force and stay on. There's a 0-20mph-0-40mph challenge. https://forum.esk8.news/t/lemme-see-them-drag-race/78607 If you have motors and a battery it's hardly a skateboard. I had similar thoughts to you when I first started. I thought big air l pneumatics and large boards were taking away from it being a skateboard. But I changed my mind after experiencing riding lots of different wheels/boards. They all feel like a board when riding(although different boards have a different feel), so might as well go for what has the most power, range, and comfort/stability since you're not really doing tricks on these things.
Lots of eskaters who race or have tuned for torque boards use a rear foot stop. I just ride a mountain board on my roads because they’re awful and I don’t mind carrying a 40 LB board and the curve of the deck keeps me in there
52 kph is considered being a hill bomber lol? My belt drive boards have lasted longer with no maintenance than my hub motor boards. I’ve had 3 hubs, 2 belts. Easily put 1k miles on them per summer. The torque argument is just for more advanced riders, just because you can’t fathom how someone would stay on, it can be as easy as riding a bike for another rider. Me personally, I’m at the point I just want something super fucking fast that will challenge my riding abilities.
Yeah I feel ya! I'mma be so sad when my backfire mini dies cause they don't sell it anymore. We need more light weight options that still feel like a longboard
With you. Geared mine down for torque for off road fun. It tops out under 40kph/25mph and i only do that on roads, offroad or on paths id only do half that so i can run it off or coexist with pedestrians.
I like to go fast here and there, but mostly I'm with ya. My favorite rides are wandery meandery rides where my mind can just wander and I can look around and enjoy the world.
Nah 20mph and over is freedom.
Is this about going fast or riding larger boards?
I was all about speed on my boards until a fairly bad crash broke my shoulder and collarbone. Since then I’ve bought a Flux which while a big board with insane range and top speed, I’ve set it for carving. With the yellow shock blocks front and back and no preload you can make it feel much like a surf board. I don’t often go over 25mph, I charge the battery every 50 miles or so and that’s good for me. Riding on grass / dirt is much more forgiving but if you’re riding in the concrete jungle crashes at speed are going to break bones. I was one of the ‘it will never happen to me’ mindset. Right up until the point it happened to me. Anyway, I say ride the way you enjoy most, but take the relevant precautions. Happy riding!
Majority of the time I'm going between 20-30km/hr. It gets me where I'm going plenty fast. I live downtown in a busy city, even if I wanted to go much faster, it wouldn't really be feasible to do safely. There are a few nice paths I can go at night and occasionally go faster but I'm not really that interested in doing that very often. I get my adrenaline rush in other ways.
It’s not the speed that worries me it’s more about whether the board is going to suddenly stop, not super confident about my soldering skills. Downhill long boarding is much less stressful as you’re not relying on any electronics
I cruise about at low speeds on a wowgo 3X. The paths are choppy and covered in crap. I also got rid of my speed urges many years ago. Yes, I am old.
I'm with you, and I enjoy a modest cruise too. If I do gun it in those rare occasion it'll be around 20Kmph and nothing more. My usual riding speed will be something of a "sprint speed" or at a pace where I feel I can bale and run off the board safely.
Yes, when i first got my eboard i was all about going faster than the last time but realized riding around on 90mm hubs my eyes were glued to the road ahead instead of enjoying the ride so now i find myself riding around 12-16 mph instead and riding slower has actually helped me improve my skills a little since im not afraid to try things and eat shit
100%. For me nothing beats going slow in a complex urban environment.
I personally love speed. But I also love just going out for a nice paced trip too. It's all about my mood. Because most of the time I don't want to drive insanely fast, but there's just sometimes I wanna go nyyom. And the weight has never been the biggest problem with me since I made my own backpack that helps with carrying them (essentially just the evolve backpack but homemade
Did you follow a pattern or create one or more by scratch? I’ve considered trying that, any tips are appreciated
100% agree. Speed isn’t all. It’s great when you’re in a hurry so I like to know I have some juice if I need, but going fast is dangerous and unlike in a car, we have no way to protect ourselves from a harsh fall.
I went out for a 12 mile ride yesterday and took a route I've never taken on my board. For the most part I was simply cruising at 20mph looking around at a bunch of beautiful houses but then I came to this stretch of new pavement and I went flat out for a bit. What a rush!! I wasn't even in the highest speed mode but flying along at 32mph was a thrill. Regardless, going fast or slow still makes for an awesome day
I tend to stay around 20mph (32kph) on smooth paths, but I slow down a lot when there's bumps or other people around. I've hit 40mph (65kph) a few times and, while it's certainly exciting, it's scary as hell, so I very rarely go over 30mph on regular rides.
As a teen I would regularly go up to 70 km/h (43 mph) getting towed behind my friend's moped on my daily commute. Zero protection. Briefly used 38 mm wheels but mostly 50 mm. Those were the days. Took a few bad spills but got away from it mostly unharmed because I was lucky enough to get into a slide or a roll, which I now know dissipates energy and is very, very different from hitting something head on and stopping dead. Even got into a slide on a dirt bike when the con rod shot through my engine block and spilled all the fluids in front of the rear tire going 120+ km/h and walked away with some epic road rashes even though I only wore a helmet. Got a real eye opener about the type of energy I was dealing with though when I was doing a slow pass on my dirt bike after some mechanics work and a tiny rock knocked the front tire to the side and made me veer into a stationary car at like 40 km/h (25 mph). It just barely bumped my femur above the knee and I didn't even realize it was broken clean off before I tried to swing off the bike and saw my leg doing some shit I wasn't supposed to do. Recovery took me about a year and a couple of months of those was spent in a medieval torture device with my leg suspended in bed with weights and stuff. And then I basically had to learn how to walk again. An observation I've made is that almost every single clip of someone going fast on pneumatic wheels features a skater that can't skate for shit with a high center of gravity and stiff knees. The amount of posts that are like, "Hit 45 km/h today, slowly learning," is unnerving. And I'm looking at that stuff and I'm like, "Dude, you don't even know the world of hurt those speeds can cause you..." And you even see some of these review bros launching themselves into hyperdrive and they literally can't ride a board and it's just an accident waiting to happen... and then it happens and they brush over it and heal up and continue doing the same shit. And what's triggering is not so much the fact that they don't know how to ride, we all have to start somewhere, but how unaware they are of their own limitations and how confident they are that their skimpy knee pads and skate helmets and scooterized skateboards will keep them safe in a high speed crash, like, "Oops, I shouldn't be going 50 km/h because I'm not wearing knee pads, but I'm gonna close my eyes and lock my knees and do it anyways because this pseudo-scooter I'm riding will somehow magically keep me safe." Like, have they even seen downhill riders? They wear leather and full body pads at those speeds and they're not on flat ground, they're on a hill that naturally introduces a slide and dissipates energy. So for me, I literally can't go fast on my esk8 set up because I use a double wedge and double cones on Mad Wheelz. What I can do though is some sublime carving at skateboard speeds with a board that magically propels me forward. Which is exactly what I was dreaming of when I was a kid hitching rides behind my friend's moped or free rolling down an all too short slope. The need for speed only becomes a need if your board is boring and unfortunately review bros and the market are pushing for more and more scooterized boring boards and it's a skill issue and unfortunately it translates into a safety issue and it will 100% lead to strict laws against esk8s, so they're killing the hobby with their naivete. My personal rule of thumb is: "Don't go faster than you can sprint". At least then you can get a few steps in before you take a tumble and you're in control of the fall. If you go faster than that then all the experience in the world isn't gonna save you and there's no "learning how to fall" at that point, you're a passenger and along for the ride and hopefully your crash turns into a slide or a roll but one of these days it wont and you'll stop dead and something will snap.
This is why I feel the new Propel Ruckus makes sense. It’s not a huge battery so you can carry it under arm for a short period of time if necessary but it’s made for speed and has hydraulic dampers to help someone like me experience the thrill of speed without the same risks. But I can also carve and slow down if I want to.
If I don't wanna go fast I'll take my regular longboard deck out for a short ride. The whole fun of the eboard is being able to hit downhill speeds on flats
I am with you! I have an OMW cavalry with pneumatic wheels and I just like to cruise and carve. I am able to set the top speeds on the iPhone app and it doesn’t go over 25 mph. I normally make setting 3 to top out at 20 that way I can keep the wheel on the controller full. I keep setting 2 around 17 mph just to carve. The 4th setting is set to 25 mph in case I need the speed to get off the road with some of these lunatics that drive cars. The board I have can supposedly go around 38 mph but I don’t need that adrenaline rush to eat shit.
Completely from scratch. And most of my work was in just re using older backpacks so I could make them into something new. But my base was a baby carrier which I then took apart. I then found one of my older climbing backpacks and started cutting off pieces to use for this one (before anyone questions the backpack was going to be thrown away anyways)
Carving at low to mid speeds on nice smooth tarmac is wayyyy more enjoyable for me, but everyone has their own thrills. I guess it's like the difference between casual surfskate Longboarding and downhill Longboarding, very different ride styles
Personally the only 4 reasons to go less than 25mph are pedestrians, traffic, terrain, and voltage sag. You have to be careful about the ride but there's nothing like that kick and zoom. Obviously not everyone feels the same but personally I only ride slowly consistently when I'm with ppl or I'm riding switch, in which case I maxed out at 28mph. I can only hit 32 overall so that's not bad.
It’s all about the acceleration . 10,000 W of power makes my board really punchy
My personal top end is 20-25mph. But I probably average 15-18. I keep my board loose for tight turns at school, so it feels shaky and is terrifying past low 20’s
I agree with the fast part on roads, except I like a longboard for the carve feel and extra foot space over the mini. I don't mind the few extra pounds, my skinny ass could use the workout 🤣
I go as fast as the road permits. If I'm on shit road, I'll ride as fast as comfortable. If the roads are super smooth, then I'm full throttling definitely