oh wow, thats a great link - wish I found that back then 
here is my most important accessory - an old split riptide 80A bushing 
you can see well how the copper rod is deteriorating from the welding. without a strong force to open the circuit it will weld together after 4-5 welds!
The SCR would fix the deteriorating rod but I can’t to find a high amp one above 100 amps. I guess I will just replicate your copper rod switch and use a really thick spring 
with 44+6 degree calibers, the wheelbite is gone. ill try later tonight if riding with essentially 50degree calibers will be too turny. looked really silly to use a 1/2" flat riser for caliber 44s, so before I do that Ill try the angled rubber version.
also digged out my old tb ver2 mounts with the very first topspeed black calibers. looks great in red but also cool in black 
gorgeous !!!
So sweet! What kind of bushings do you have on there?
Im using the same on all builds so far - riptide krank barrel 93A boardside, 87A roadside - somehow those just work for me, also quite well to tune with a little kingpin nut magic!
caliber stock is too soft for me, also not fond of cones - all too surfy for 30-40kph carving!
For my weight on the carbon mini cruiser I like Venom 87a barrel boardside, 78a cone roadside as I’m rarely going past 15-18mph. The low speed surfiness gives me a little more control for all the crappy roads and obstructions in my city. I change to stiffer bushings for everything outside of the city. One day I want to get the whole durometer range of bushings to really fine tune things for different occasions.
yea, softer bushings help with comfort! I might go softer if I find that I go a lot slower with the spud. the 87/93A krank barrels is a consequence of max speed 45kph and average carving speed around 30kph.
tried a lot of bushing duros - trucks quickly feel too soft for me and also quickly too hard (at least from a purely barrel perspective). cones never worked for me for anything 
Cool looking board !!
Can ask where you got the Kegel Wheel Gear ?
alienpowersystems (UK)!
Nice, glad you worked it out! Looks sick!
either its me getting more confident on the board, or I had my head free of the gorgeous carving of my vanguard OR calibers just suit me better than these extremely smooth ronins … my conclusion: even in 44+6° caliber setting, it was a very fun and also stable ride. ran the spud down a 15% slope a few times, carving was a little more extreme and with higher frequency than the raceboard like vanguard swings, was able to slow down the board more like that though - last bit of the slope I opened up to get some speed - probably up to 45kph and it didnt really feel shaky like on my first night with the ronins. board is somewhere in between my gbomb 60°/20° pump setup and my tesseract and it definitely helps my confidence to know that I cant wheelbite.
was a suprisingly smooth ride too - stiff board and kegels, couldve been a lot worse. Im not actually sure yet why it didnt feel worse … 
thumbsup, now I need my alien order! 
@whitepony This is such beautiful and interesting build. Your CF skills are amazing. Definitely one of the most appealing, intriguing and well executed street builds I have seen so far. Give me one of these, and one of @longhairedboy’s boards, and I’d probably quit the DIY thing and be a happy rider.
I’m really wanting to try some of those bindings now. I bet if you came up with a lightweight CF version of those, you could sell enough to put an American kid through half a semester of college, aka, a ridiculous amount of money.
Keep up the great work, and excellent documentation of your builds. Always a pleasure to see what you’re up to next. 
its funny that you say that … Ive been thinking the last few weeks and months about spending more time buildings things for others.
had a lot of requests about various things - carbon, boards, enclosures and a lot about batteries. Ive sold a few evolve carbon batteries with reasonable profit that funded at least one build.
but then I see people like chaka & jason, openly arguing with impatient customers who break things all the time because they dont know about all the details and things you probably shouldnt do. or going down the 3rd party way, fiddling with chinese to make stuff cheap. its all things I wouldnt want to do at all!! so I feel I am a lot better off by just making things for myself and keeping it a hobby 
Nope. You’re more like nowind, building really top, elite boards. Rise the price, you will only have few but loyal and happy customers. Chaka & jason lowered the price and got lots of shit. This is how it works.
I feel you on this, I’ll get a request here and there but if I can’t trust the experience/responsibility of the rider it becomes almost like a moral obligation to NOT assist them in hurting themselves, especially after seeing my friend get hurt. I mainly stick with close friends and local folks that I can physically assist. You have a great DIY philosophy man and it’s why your threads are keeping things alive.
small updates during waiting:
decided to give the battery a wrap in 2mm thick felt to protect it a little better from vibrations and impacts:
shrink tubed and added felt to the enclosure as well. you can see the new early march vesc order from enertion that finally arrived - one with 2 caps, the other with 3! curious how they will perform … my very first vesc was a china enertion vesc thats the only one that hasnt died on me yet!
and ah well, I didnt want to do it, but since I wanted to clean bushings & pivot anyway, put the motor on heelside and switch to foc I finally stole the tesseract trucks, mount, motor and wheels for the spud. poor tesseract, not sure if ill keep riding it with vanguard and spud around. it rides so well, but the vanguard is just doing basically everything better. 
plan for now is: when my aps mount arrives, my project will be to make it work with the cronins, then Ill take the enertion mount and re-use it on the tesseract.
anyway, abecs, no wheelbite, love satin red rum, rspec for now, setting it up with foc later! 
How do you plan to make it work with cronins? I’ve been trying to make it work with my torque motor mounts
hm, not sure if enertion tests the vesc under load, but one of the two new vescs came in with a DRV8302 error before I even got started with setting it up (connect, notebook -> up downarrow -> red blinking LED & DRV8302 faults in console). other vesc is working fine on the same setup …
sucks big time man! lucky you ordered two though
