I recently dove into making a DiY battery for my CGT 3 months ago. In that time, I bought some Evolve hardware to make a DiY board. But since I started, I have gone through the painful process of waiting on parts, so while I expect to get things going again in a month or so, I am looking at buying a used GTX to ride, which would be my 3rd board.
I’m starting to feel that it may be over the top to have 3 boards, even if 2 are out of commission atm; the urge to ride though makes it hard to fight the impulse to get another.
That got me thinking, how many boards do people have on average anyways? How many esk8 boards do you own or are building atm?
Three. One low-power trainer/loaner board, one “daily driver” and I just finished my first dual-motor.
That’s down from 4 - I had to sacrifice 2 loaner boards to make my dual motor.
I’ll probably end up with a mountain board at some point, but likely the dual will become my daily and the daily will become the mountain board. Or maybe the dual will become the mountain board. Or something.
Not that long, but only because I had 2 donor boards, so I had everything in stock except the motors and motor mounts. and I needed 12 additional 18650’s to make a 10S5P pack out of an old 3P pack.
So maybe 7 evenings and a saturday. I’m still tweaking it a bit.
Available and ready to be riden:
Trampa hs11 (for rides under bad pavement or unknown roads)
Enertion Raptor 2 (commute to work)
Sector 9 Bintang (long and fast rides)
Out of service
Evolve Bamboo GT (broken bms)
Loaded Vanguard (part donor)
Under construction
Jet spud 29"
Moonshine Sidekick
2 boards until now (have to post build threads by the way !)
Single 9S 5Ah Lipo with 6355 motor and 4.12 VESC, 30" Carver deck with a real kicktail : Short, lighter that my other board, now used for small ride to go to the grocery store or that kind of stuff and to go to work when weather is good.
Dual 9S 8Ah Lipo with dual 6355 motors and FocBox, 39" Hydroponic awesome deck : Longer, heavier but more powerful (damn, can’t get enough of that dual acceleration)
Ive always been curious whenever it would be possible figure out about how many esk8 builders there are.
This thread sort of makes it clearer, as there are not any statistical numbers i would have come up to, concerning how many eboards are in “circulation”, so to speak
“Shed” / “workshop” and “Board collection” pics are welcome, I always enjoy seeing many eboards together, not just one.
Helps to spot their differences and overall look n all
Love it, dedicated boards for only street riding and at riding are the way to go in the end, IMO. I love my evolve but I hate swapping wheels and batteries.
@Okami dude your AT setups are off the hook, its always nice to be able to ride when you have to wait for parts to finish building something; now I want a 3rd board (used GTX) even more. What kind of rides to you take those bad boys on? And yeah lol, I was wondering what peoples collections were cause I wanted to be dissuaded from spending my current savings on a 3rd board…but after seeing peoples replies on this thread, I am suuuuuper tempted to buy it
@thisguyhere Man I wish I had something like your “dog runner” when I used my longboard around college campus, care to take a pic? What are you planning on building?
@wolfgangcole Portability is no joke, going from like a subway to the classroom or office without stepping into a car is worth the newfound freedom. I actually intended to use a DiY GTX I’m working on to have my larger friends ride, using a dual focbox setup and maybe some 200kv motors, when I acquire them.
@sk8l8r 6??? A friend recently told me, “I always have 3 boards, cause I can always count on 2 being out of action” lol…your comment makes me start to think getting a 3rd board might cost me in savings, but it also might save my sanity!
@Slak Nice, I use my board to go anywhere close by as well. Personally I love dual acceleration, can’t go back after having tasted it for my first Esk8 experience.
My boards:
CGT, racerstar 140kvs, evolve esc. Currently out of commission due to a DiY Battery Project. Said project somehow fried my ESC, waiting to buy another while I rebuild the battery to a better size (10s5p to a 4p).
DiY GT, dual focbox setup, 10s4p 18650 30q, Firefly remote. Currently building remote, and ordered one from @SeeTheBridges. Out of commission until parts arrive, will setup focbox canbus in the meantime.
I have 1 mono 10s 6374. Is the first build, so naturally it’s being worked on more than it’s being ridden. Currently building a small milk runner on an old Powell peralta deck with a high discharge 10s2p config. Using 20650 lg’s. Going to be my first battery build. Makes sense to at least have 2 so there’s hopefully always one ready to rip on.
@Eboosted I’m excited to see that Moonshine sidekick. Damn those are nice decks. Your builds are always inspiring!
Currently have 2 boards… Boosted Board V2 Dual+ XR and a Wowgo Mini. Looking at building a board sometime this year, currently reading and reading and reading.
Was originally planning 20s10p(200cells) but for safety will likely limit it to 13s15p(195cells). Not much other details yet as I’m still mostly in planning stage. But likely will use a squash tail shape.
E-bike:
Cheap Chinese hub kit for my wife’s Schwinn bike to cruise with me. Using retired vanguard 10s3p.
I don’t think there is such thing as “to many boards”, if you have a purpose for them. Granted I’ve been able to learn alot and fill alot of satisfaction building boards for locals. So its helped me determine what I want out of boards, and realizing that no one board does it all.
I think the main thing before building another board just to build one because your first one breaks, is rebuild, and rebuild until you get that first one right, having a good understanding of what parts are reliable (electronics) will allow you to build yourself your own “standard” of parts, and save you many many headaches as you expand your Swiss army knife of Esk8 collection…
I have two boards. One boosted dual plus that will go 27mph.
Other is my 48" Jaseboard deck with 12s6p under it.
I’m happy to say I spent a significant amount of time reading build logs and doing research on what to buy and what not to buy. Instead of asking will this eBay/China whatever work I just went right to what has been working well for others. Once my board was built I’ve only had to make a few tweaks here and there. Nothing major except riding.
Edit: I have plans for a AT build. After my ebike build. One expensive toy at a time…
30a or 35a cells. I’m expecting to be pulling around 150-300a continuous so having some overhead (450 or 525a continuous) will make sure I have some good range. Somewhere in the 37Ah- 50Ah total size
