Headed out to tested ride #1
Looks great, good job on those motor mounts!
Thank you sir!
thank you for taking this project on. i wanted to experiment with those but they only come with gear drives. i read you can change the shocks out as well to upgrade the suspension. I’m curious how they handle higher speeds with fine tuning.
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They feel a lot like I would say Tito trucks in a way. But idk if they could compete on a track against them. The rebound from the coils are a little more unpredictable. But all around they are fantastic. Very comfortable.
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I live in Santa Cruz and have started riding on the roads around here. There are some nice smooth ones that I feel super comfortable on, but many have nasty broken surfaces. I’ve considered Ace Deck trucks as a potential upgrade, but I am concerned that the smooth ride might be compromised for high-speed stability. I enjoy puzzling over these things. It would be awesome to see a blend of some of the innovative ideas that are working well. I would combine the baseplate design of Idea and Tito trucks by adding spherical bearings seated in their own pivot cups, and a dual barrel bushing configuration with Ackermann steering through a split truck like the Ace Deck.
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Could be an interesting to see how that Frankenstein design would play, I’m not sure these independent suspension trucks would be great for high speed. Considering they could potentially have inherent slop considering it’s a channel truck.
High speed anything should not have any slop, it is unacceptable & calls for nasty spills. Also define high speed? These feel pretty solid at like 25mph I haven’t gone much above that because I have not ridden in months & the last time I was injured I ate it pretty bad.
I’ve had my fair share of 45mph wrecks on the street and I’ve come to the conclusion it’s not super ideal to be traveling at that speed for numerous reasons. But I like that idea is my point.
Alrighty… these Prototype mounts have served me well. But I am tired of belts so dead tired of them slipping… so I just kinda had some extra stooge gears laying around and a spare motor to test if this could work without the motors not colliding into the trucks… anddddd
It looks like we are in business, I’ll be making a shorty version prototype of these same mounts to shrink up the center to center distance.
Thinking of potentially making a gear drive box to shield these gears for heavy off-road use. But that’s maybe later down the line.
The only downside is that the motors will be way closer to the ground now but they should be fine
Stay tuned
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Official Mock up
The gearing in the pictures is 78t / 20t
I should probably test to see if a lower tooth count motor pinon would work but it looks promising 
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Shortened it up a tiny bit more
And also rotated the bolt pattern -25 degrees to gain a little bit more throw in the slotting.
Really took advantage of the spacing available and it can’t get any closer. I’m happy with it.
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I was trying out lasercutting some stuff, it’s relevant to making parts and E.Hands point of the lack of pulleys for the MBS mounting pattern (although I think radium might sell 2 different ones too).
Lasercutting htd5m probably sucks compared to anything else. Decent files for tooth profile and stacking 2mm instead of 3mm could help. It’s unfortunately heavy since I didn’t think to remove a notch between holes. Maybe an adapter plate that includes every gear drive, pulley and hub pattern could make sense for you to make.
I also made split angle channel truck drop brackets.
I don’t stand behind these ideas I was just messing around. The point is the brackets, stacks of pulleys, anti sink plates etc cost only as much as 8 Big Macs and would be even better value in bulk.
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Anything but the metric system huh?
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Dying to get this design made for my board to be able to run straight cut gears…. I was able to get a semi decent quote from Xometry.com but it’s hard to pull the trigger on it. It’s around 210$ for 4 mounts. I’m wondering if someone knows about a cheaper website I could try a utilize…? Thanks in advance.
price sounds roughly in line with what idea would’ve charged
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Pulled the trigger on getting these manufactured and shipped right as I’m about to go on vacation!
Excited to finally eradicate the belt drive slippage
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Did you tried jlc3dp? I just ordered my mounts there, it was way cheaper than all the others cnc manufactors. PCBWay also has a cnc service, price was good too.
I cannot speak by quality, as i did not received my mount yet, but price was way lower.
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