Ah duuuuuude so glad to see you putting your rest time to good use! This is an amazing innovation - I’m sure @rich will take one off your hands after his previous misfortune!!
Hey, I don’t suppose you have anything in the works for the underside of the drives do you to protect the gearboxes from damage against curbs etc or in my case the ability to be able to hit rails, ledges etc without damage? This could even be added into this design.
Haha yeah cant drink beer the whole day
will send @rich one bumper for testing, he is the new destroyer …
Yeah @Duffman made some 3Dprinted “driveguards”, they will help to protect against scratches, not sure if they will take an full impact by jumping on a rail… need to be tested !
Would definitely be keen for a pair of these. Got a few scrapes on my gear enclosures already from riding up curbs at an angle. Any idea how much these will be at this point?
Yeah I’m financially involved, I’m drinking the cnc badassery flavored JensoBro Koolaid! I happily give him my money for his gear, he destruction tests everything which is more than I can say for most.
Regardless of what it’s being called, do you actually think that people are getting mislead as to what exact sort of system this is before they buy it due to the term “direct drive” being used? Particularly at the price point these sell at.
I understand that direct drive generally seems to be referred to as hub motor systems on these forums but you could also conceive direct drive as being a term to describe the fact that the gears make direct contact as opposed to requiring a separate component such as a belt of chain to drive to “drive” the system.
Thanks bro!
I don’t like to destroy things but I’m not afraid of
These 3D printed driveguards look very helpful, too.
I could do that
Almost on every ride I hit a gear box with a curb or similar with full energy and weight (like after jumping, I like to ollie sidewalks but don’t succeed everytime), the gear box has no problem with this heavy impacts which is really amazing but this protector could save some material…
Dude - it’s all good - you gotta take your medicine
These look great - I’d also be happy to put these through their paces
I guess the problem still might be the drives could buckle under too much impact - it really needs something to take the impact instead of the drives. No idea how that could work though without comprimising ground clearance. This will certainly help with general riding though.
I doubt the drives could buckle from my experience (of course it’s possible like a lottery prize). I think a further advantage of the driveguards is that the main impact is always on the aluminium part of the gear box and never on the POM part.
I could imagine that with a separated protection the ground clearance would be too less.
I’m definitely down fora set (front and back) I think the front doubled asa headlight mount and luggage handle to drag it around would be awesome (I refuse to carry my esk8s, luggage rolling it or riding only haha…f***** Esk8 pris <— )
Hey actually no pricepoint, playing around with different materials.
Send rich my last pair, but as soon i got new i will spread some for testing.
Not my intention this time, i think the encoder embadded on the Gearbox would be nice (-;
No… Do you have a link?
The truck bushings seems not strong enough, i think its just to thin 8/10mm the brass break fast like @rich pointed out
The next prototypes of Driveguards could be tested from you of course.
Thanks mate, ANYTIME
Yeah Dude i will
yeah the next batch for testing i will thinking of you !
yap i think its the main problem is everything you add will reduce ground clearence and you get more and more impacts…
wax the driveguards
Haha
Anytime
but i guess you will wait for Blue ones isnt it ? (-;
will send 
on someone else’s party
win!
I don’t like to destroy things but I’m not afraid of 
