As the title states, I’m tired of close calls. Riding in and around NYC is dangerous and I have barely avoided severe injury several times. I love boarding and even kicking but this just isn’t the place for me. So, I am going to build an off road electric scooter. This will be fun as I live in an apartment with no access to a welder, saws, or a grinder. Going to see what I can do with a dremel and basic hand tools.
I think the 190kv may be to high so I will probably get a lower Kv and possibly larger size. I haven’t completely decided on how this build will go but I will certainly have a hand brake in the front. I will either adapt the rear wheel for a sprocket or adapt the scooter frame to mount on a skate truck and use dual drive!
This is my base platform I believe, that may change.
190kv is just about perfect for 10s. Just get the correct gearing, and it’ll be fine. Might want to look into adding some kind of cooling fan/impeller to the motor just to make sure it runs cool.
Even when I was riding without bindings I hated bailing at 20mph. I believe this will be a fun alternative as well as a bit more safe and a lot more brakes!
The only issue with the 190 is the rear wheel may be a 12" pneumatic. That’s a bit of resistance but then again I’ll be kicking off. I may adapt the rear of the scooter to bolt to a 218mm truck and run dual 6374 like on my MTB.
Can I recommend a different option? Rather than go sprocket, do a BLDC hub motor for scooters they are very very common and you can get them up to 1600-2000W. My motor is rated for 1600W but my battery pack utilizes a lot less – I think only up to 600W.
If you do the 6374 and sprocket you will have this motor hanging out the side… it doesn’t look good on a scooter. On eboard they tuck underneath or in line with the width of the board.
I get 35-37 mph top speed and about 35-40 miles distance per charge. I also have (2) Trampa boards a carver and MTB. But for my daily commuter, I ride the scooter especially with backpack and I can’t wear full body armor when I go to work in the morning.
I paid about $630 for it. It’s called a Speedway 4 (rebranded as Futecher now)
One thing to keep in mind, in NYC, ebikes and escooters are illegal and can be confiscated. Esk8 is more of a grey area since it doesn’t exactly fall under any law.
You can build around a Frinction drive @ the rear, no gearing nothing. dead simple no mechanical failiure. u can also swap out the motor very easy. I saw some people using it. they just wrap around motor a 40 grit sand paper.
only down side is no more regen brake, unless u build spring mount to tension it all the time
