My friend wants a cheap board and is looking at the Acton blink can anyone advise if it’s good or bad , 7mile/15mph but cheap as chips worth it or avoid ?
Im gonna go with that. I don’t know anyone that’s owned one that didn’t have it brake.
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Cheap and OK is Meepo new versions.
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I would hope it brakes 
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It’s horrible, I hit a rock and the whole wheel chunked and left me flying
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Stay the fuk away from Acton. Nothing good really comes from that company
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Im shook, did it actually just chunk and pop off?! 
Big piece of the wheel chunked off, it was my second esk8
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Like literally half the wheels urethane
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Pics or it didnt happen 
Na I believe you, I rode a blink for about 30 feet and got off… 
It was a while back, I wasn’t even on the forum yet, let me look. Don’t remember if I took pictures
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Couldn’t find any, damn I should have taken a picture, it was real bad
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@B-b-q-tom, I got a meepo campus cruiser, Sanyo battery, goes up to 18mph, I’d sell it for cheap, didn’t think of it @M.Hboards
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He’s read all your replies and he’s gonna go with a meepo v2 instead now , thanks , we don’t know anyone with an Acton so this was very helpful
I had an Acton once upon a time. Literally taped the battery/esc onto a longboard. To be honest, their first single belt drive was actually “good”. I got baited into the whole hub motor hype at the time and sent my board in for a belt to hub motor swap for $100. That hub broke within 1-2 miles of slow circling my office parking lot.
I contacted Acton about it and there was “nothing they can do” eventually a solution was reached where they gave me an Acton Lite and called it even. The Lite was cute, but useless for me unless I had one for each foot
Really? I rode an action blinkquatro once and I really really liked it.
Well the Quatro is a whole different level of board compared to their other stuff.
But still stupid thin urethane, and cheap remote. Braking is still a bit harsh, but I guess that’s something one can get used to. If they are still in business and planning future eskates. I hope they use the new Chinese ESCs because 2018 seems to be when they finally got things running smoothly.
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After a lot of decision making he bought the wowgo and loves it , so much so he has done a review of it and put it on YouTube https://youtu.be/Zo3JdZz6TGA it’s actually a good review he’s only a young chap but worth a watch
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