Grew up skating my entire life, was browsing youtube one day and came across a video of a guy riding an electric mountainboard. Thats all it took, so i had to build one.
The plan was to build a solid, low cost board and see if it is something i want to dive deeper into. So here is my first build, and yes, im hooked and have been ordering and making parts for a higher end build next.
Started as one of the most affordable boards i vould find, the MBS Atom 90
.
For motors i went with Keda 63-64 190kv. They were cheap and had decent reviews. Worth a shot right.
ESC is a cheap ebay dual belt drive esc. Nothing to write home about but does the job for now.
Machined a box for it out of delrin and mounted a heat sink onto the bottom side of the esc. Power switch. XT plug.
Simple. Effective. Waterproof.
The real challenge came when trying to find a belt drive for it. I simply did not like what i could find, and there wasnt much to find. So i made my own 72 tooth pulley. Mounted to the MBS wheels through spacers i made.
Then came motor mounting time. Fired up the waterjet, drew up some mounts, cut the blanks, machined them to spec. Came out nice. Maybe a bit overkill but works flawless.
Thats really all there was to it. Im running 10s lipo in a little box on top, nothing fancy. I have a little over 300 miles on it now and not a single problem, aside from the garbage tires that came with it. Torque is good, top speed ive gotten out of it is 26mph, no idea what the range is. The longest i ride it nonstop is 11 miles at a time. Havent pushed it longer.
Much bigger plans for this upcoming build. 26mph doesnt satisfy me, and with better ESCs i will get the tuning i am after.
So anyone out there looking for a budget friendly build on a pretty solid rig, you cant go wrong with something like this.