Welcome to the journey!
This First 85% will be sort of a background of how this came to be + Catching you up on how its going + where its headed.
Will be a lot of visual notation / documentation, Ill try to keep Words to a minimum best I can
starting off in 2020 is when I came across esk8 boards.
I bought a Evolve GTR & rode the absolute hell out of it
(unfortunately now its dead but that’s part of how I got here)
I purchased it because I wanted a way to get around Catalina Island. (a island which I was Sailing quite frequently to with my grandpa and what better way to get around in my mind.
Evolves price tag kept me from it for awhile but eventually I scraped together what it was alledgley worth.
Was a ton of Fun but ultimately could not handle the sheer force of shredding - Ended up Severely Fracturing the nose of the board which I fixed by using a angle grinder + scrap Aluminum I found at work and cut to pieces sort of resembling a H that sandwiched the nose and kept it together until I retired it
Fast forward 2023 I had been Trying to figure out how piece together a diy board for the pst couple years. I knew what I wanted wasn’t necessarily on a shelf somewhere.
For some reason I somehow wasn’t aware of any sort of local community deeply involved in PEVS until late 2023 (First Group Ride At the Evolve Store in San Diego) I met some pretty cool people that day Mason, David & Austin from Speedboard + Theron & Apollo from Evolve.
I somehow managed to stay in contact with mason from speedboard and bothered him with questions regarding esk8 / Vesc Stuff that I had not alot of information on for several months later until I realized at a certain point the answers to these questions I had didn’t really stick, and I needed to somehow progress this vision on my own.
So I start ordering a parts… First thing I ordered was a deck + Enclosure from Flux Motion aswell as a Vesc. I was Trying to Figure out the absolute biggest 12s Battery I could fit in the enclosure using a piece of paper and the one 21700 cell I had in a flashlight I Traced 10 parallel and settled on that.
I purchased everything I thought I possibly might have needed even upgrading some things before the battery even arrived.
in the meantime while the Battery was being built I was trying to figure out how to piece all the things together.
the Night before my battery was to Deliver I somehow managed to convince a well known Sawyer Reynolds to help me fire up my vesc + program my vesc to take input power from two 5.0 ah Makita Drill batteries.
and at like 5 am day off the actual battery delivery I test rode the board using those drill batteries Ahahaha
Real Battery shows up later than expected.
with not the slightest clue what I was doing I wrestled the battery into the enclosure trying to see if I could stuff a bit of padding on top and bottom of the battery to help against wear. but the battery was so big I couldn’t run any padding. I Practically had to stand on the Enclosure to get the darn thing to adhere to the deck while driving the enclosure screws.
I was in a bit of a rush to slam it all together (I was to meet sawyer so he could properly program it on a night ride by the LA Zoo later that night) as the battery came later than expected I had a little time to install a buck converter, which I soldered while the loopkey was IN LOL ahaha. so as I placed my solder tip onto the battery tabs it let out a nice spark which for someone not knowing they were doing was quite frightening. After telling myself this is I’m sure how its done I placed my soldering iron down & Maintained Pressure to prevent a disconnect / more sparking and wallaaaa its done.
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This was while waiting for sawyer to show up, I was sort of in awe that I even made it this far.
two days later I somehow found out about this thing called Tails up Thursday in Long beach and met a ton of cool folks that are some of the best people I know today
Shortly after that I found out about i2s and Met EVEN more REALLY COOL PEEPS. all of whom who accelerated my interest In PEVS. I found out about a Race that was coming up at Apple Valley Speedway and the Race was on to be prepared for breakneck speeds I wanted TO WIN!
as I started to become more fixated/involved on improving my setup I started coming up with parts that thought of.
I came Across @Heathlewis and some content of what he was doing with his boards as they shared the same chassis. I was eager to push the same speeds he was pushing. delusional I thought that I might on my matrix 3s I bought all the bushing types for those trucks and tried each setup accordingly. and the bottom line seeemed like go decently fast and straight (45mph)
or be able to actually turn and severely drop speeds that my channel trucks where capable of safely.
time was running short as this race was approaching and I didn’t directly want to mimic what heath did on his setup out of respect for what he did. but I believe through a post of mine on a esk8 group posting he encouraged de-wedging aswell as using a stablizer as he was in favor of safety.
Which I took as a green light to make my attempt at what he did in short amount of time.
I had a connection through work of a guy who could help CNC a wedge. (4 the rear) as I was had no idea what degree I was going for I guess kind of eyeballed it
the Night that I had this block milled out was also the last night before the race
(Last minute larry)
Raceday arrives and each practice run I’m still scrambling to find a setup worthy of high speeds, changing everything from gear ratios to motor pulleys, wheel pulleys, every single bushing setup possible.
Something I didn’t anticipate was to be invited onto a relay team 20 minutes from the start while my board was completely apart as I was putting it back together for a new setup. as the start of that relay race neared I ditched the self proclaimed wedge and those 8 inch tires. & just drilled straight into the baseplate of my truck to mount the stabilizer.
So going into the race on the softest bushing ready to break my face off I send it, & a bit to hard. I wobble out coming into the first turn but continue to race and finish.
That was day 1,
Day 2 I qualified for the novice class and took home 2nd place
Extra shots from the weekend:
Taking home a 2nd place I was pretty stoked to have podiumed for my first race.
over the next year and a half up until now I have been altering the setup on this board and its as follows.
there’s about twenty different directions you can go with your boards setup at all times if you are in the DIY scene and picking one is kind of difficult.
Ill let the pictures do the talking…
Seven different attempts later…
Not Pretty but for a belt drive it works 
First Test Ride!
More Visions
Tailight?
Hmmmmmm I see you are bored of belt drive…
3d printed mockup
Fitcheck
Prettttty tight
Sniff Check
They Arrive!
mmmm yes wrong file sent
utilize upset to make more aggressive look on V878748578457
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order is in now we wait…
!!!
CRISPYYYYY
take a second to recognize the many attempts to get there
Listen to stooge gearz
Nevermind that now continue improving…
**** Involuntary Hiatus since December of 2024****
Miss Esk8con 
Miss Electrify
Miss Friends
Hiatus sort of continues …
but still sort of able to keep pushing…
I got pretty sick so that means binge work with what you have with the time you have.
Looking at the vast amount of spare parts / Relics / Mistake parts left over I have disturbs me.
Recalling those raw silver mounts I PANIC Drilled one hole When I realized the pattern was off. I picked up and continued hand drilling with determination.
Succesfully eyeball Drill pattern through one.
use holes to assist marking centers
Centers… questionable
…determination supersedes
mmmm 4wd Mockup?
with motors won at AVS…
Vesc Challenge Ahead?
Chance to do a Molicel battery swap?
(Must Finish Building welder first)
More to come & more to share from the past but this is the start…
I’m sure most of you would be interested (if Any) in where its going not how its really gone
this just took hours & hours to compile apologies for how disorganized it is and will be
Stay Tuned!
Geoffrey chiu 
