I’m interested in a direct drive, pre-built board. I don’t have the skills or time to put one together. Are there solid, pre-built, direct drive options on the market. I wanted an Evo, but the Carvon supply chain and communications issues have scared me off. I see some promising discussions around a new direct drive option (torque drive?).
Is there a pre-built direct drive option I should look at it, or is the market for them still evolving?
Its still evolving unfortunately but yes Torquedrives have promising direct drives that will be out soon. As for pre-built it is currently only carvon that ever offered that with their exos but those are also delayed. Gotta wait and see with them like everyone else
Yeah its a shame that the idea is not readily available. @torqueboards version is a way off apparently and the carvons are hard to come by. The last time I looked on the website the 2wd version of the evo was available and this is the one to get. The exo has the koowheel battery set up and they have issues. I think the torqueboards version will be worth the wait though.
There will be a limited about of drives sold separtly. Everything is always delayed in my life unfortunetly, so I really hope these won’t be taking much longer.
I don’t have a great reason to avoid gears. The aesthetics of the gear drives I’ve seen remind me of belt drives. Intuitively, the direct drives strike me as an extension (no pun intendend) of what I like about hub motors, while providing more urethane.
Yes. I’ve looked both places. LHB’s recent blog post about moving away from pure custom work to a finite set of offerings makes business sense, for sure. However, it may mean he’s not a good fit for what I want. We’ll see.
I realize it may be a poor metric, but I haven’t seen enough YouTube videos out on direct drive equipment to feel comfortable in a choice yet. I want the verdict on Carvons after some wear and tear. I have loosely followed the technologies on these forums.