I like your Skateboard..........

[sternwake]

My backpack is one of those Eagle Creek ,compact ones, which can be squeezed into its own front pocket, and
Consume minimal space, when not in use.

I pulled it from the parked lonely van a while back, to find its YKK zippers frozen from misuse and perhaps being stored when damp from a California 12 pack many months prior.

. Needle nose vice grips and a carpenters pencil got them moving freely enough, but not so freely that pulling on the flap would allow them to back off on their own.
I could have pulled 2 beers out the top corners and slid them down the sides, and closed the zippers, but decided it was unnecessary for the short return jaunt.

But a larger backpack might become useful.

[rvpopeye]

Give what you get. (AKA What goes around , comes around) .....One of my favorite life rules !
A slight twist on karma.
Some don't believe , till they do , or don't...

But would the average cop stop a skateboarder just coasting along minding his own business?
I did say average... Definately are exceptions .


Rub candle or (cooking/gulf) parafin wax on the zippers to lube (the higher melt point ones are actually less effective.) I like bee's wax. Graphite good for maintenance... Good luck.
(LLBean product specialist taught me that when I bought my first real backpack in.....1970 or71 ... At 60# I soon realized I preferred panniers on a 10 speed with baby gears , even more zippers , and I was a candle company owner back then too so had/have a pretty good supply for zippers !)

[sternwake]

Skateboarding is not the crime it once was.
I don't think.


Must be a novelty seeing someone my age, here, riding one,.especially inside a gated community.

Where I was 6 months ago, it wouldn't even have raised an eyebrow.

Here, now, its just too freaking hot.
80f, 74% humidity, at 1am and the next 4 months it will likely never drop below 85f.

[GypsyDogs]

I feel your climate pain- Stern..
Between the humidity and the "it Just Doesn't Cool Off...!!" gets pretty miserable.

[sternwake]

I'm hoping i can adapt to this putrid heat.

But I'm at a bit of a disadvantage there though, I've always been that guy whom people ask aren't you cold?

Bet I have a higher percentage of Neanderthal genes, than most of European descent.

Walk into garage, Feel blast of heat and humidity, apologize to batteries and projects, leave.

[Scott7022]

I actually roll.5 C higher all the time. Have since I was a kid. No one ever tried to figure out why and always had higher BP than normal even at 13 which was the first time I was made aware of it. Now every Doc is like take this drug blah blah blah. I’ve always just put it off to design flaws. I clot like a lizard, when I gave blood they always marked it for playlets. Normal Metrics…is there such a thing.

Love to know what my pressure hits while pissed off and engaged. Lol.


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[sternwake]

While my one E skateboard is in drydock while fitting it for new  36v enclosure, Its 25v enclosure and trucks were sitting off to the side, silently screaming.

I was using the tinier  slower esk8 to try and clear.my head, but its just too slow and gutless.

My long pushskate , largely untouched  for months now  said:
"Psst,....hey  I want those hub motors, hook me up!"

The baseplate holes are the same, and it took less than 5 minutes to swap trucks and zip tie, then gaff taoe the 7s2p enclosure to my longskate with thick soft gasket.

So much better than  short wheelbase board.

It has to be same speed, but I feel faster. 
Cruisy, carvey, comfy, confident .
It just feels rigbt.  I carved my way to jelly legs, not pushing once. After a few miles when battery is down and torque and speed dropoing off, charge at 2C with fan  blowing over hot hubs and enclosure, and when amps taper to 0.5 or less at 29.4v, unplug and do it again, lather rinse repeat all afternoon.

It needs its own custom flexible battery enosure and jts own electric hub motors, but  until then, in  between kayak outings , Imma gonna swap componenta back to long skate.

   
   
   

[sternwake]

I bought the cheap mountainboard just for one of its trucks and 2 pneumatic wheels, to modify Kayak cart, and that worked well.

So i was walking by the lonely half  mountainboard and its other truck and wheels, and it said:
"psst, hey buddy, throw this truck and pneumatic wheels on the front of your long cruiser skate'

I had to drill 2 holes in its baseplate to fit pattern, slapped.it.on, stepped on the board,, no wheelbite at max turn, and hit the throttle.

   

So.smooth over bumps, so much traction, and with my left leg being a half inch shorter than my right, the uphill stance was almoast unnoticeable.  

Developed ridiculous amounts of confidence in turns, pushing the new limits, jellifying my legs which are now stiff and sore.

10s battery and enclosure at 98.5%.

[rvpopeye]

It's alive ! IT'S ALIVE !
Now try building one for Fiona .......

[sternwake]

Fiona will have a tow sled soon enough.

I finished battery, drilled holes in enclosure for power button and charge port, attached ESC to heatsink, plug in phase and sensor wires. turn on remote, wheels spin, quick test ride before it rains.

Put board down, hit throttle, board moves backwards.
go back inside read manual, figure out how to reverse direction. done and done, step outside and full on downpour.

How fast will it go? on the table, unloaded, wheels turn 2406 rpm , remote says 44mph but have to set correct wheel size.