That looks sick and I love the adaptation from a regular deck. Someone recently messaged me about a similar project but they hadn’t thought it out this far yet.
I had ESC problems with this project and I haven’t circled back to it yet, so I haven’t had a chance to really test the handling. I have a feeling everything will work out so long as you can dial in the angle of the front truck and rear wheel mount. In your design that should be easy to do. Just print up some custom angle-risers for the front and make sure that the mount for the rear wheel has adjustability built in to the design.
Duuuuuuuude, no. I literally just told the wife that I was done building Mountain boards… Now you remind me of this thread and even show a sweet design.
At that point we’re building a fat-tire Speedboard, yeah? Was trying to avoid having to turn the large drive wheel as it’ll make the swingarm mechanism much more complex/prone to breaking, so I’m hesitant at the thought having an assembly like that on both front/rear.
One of my design goals was minimizing the number of parts used in the suspension assembly.
Yeah, unfortunately I am a total noob in all this.
I would like to build something like a motocross-3esk8.
I wanted to try taking a trampa board, the rear from a boyueda 5600 scooter (mounted onto the board with a custom adapter) and a Baja board front truck (fixed to the board using another custom adapter) with one of the hub motor wheels from the scooter on either side.
The main issue I have is motor control. I thought about using the motor control from the Baja but I am not sure how well that would work. Or how at all for that matter lol.
Obviously there would be other things like the battery as well, but those shouldn’t be too much of an issue I think
The main issue I have
I think the entire purchase was about $185 USD to my door- honestly not that bad for the size/weight. Air shipping option was $40 of that, I think the Floatwheel components were/are on sale.
If you think about how much a set of gear-drives, motors, trucks and such cost nowadays, $185 is a steal. AND you only need a single VESC. The wild-card is the expense of the wheel-mount. @DerelictRobot Have you looked into that yet?
This is one of two designs I have been going between atm, I just have a lot less experience designing for formed steel pipe so double-checking on some mechanical details with a local bike building friend.
Definitely would be the better route for production should the design work out.
…although this looks super sweet already
