Here’s a snapshot of the build! With its baby on top.
Hello Everyone! My name is Leo; I haven’t been too active on these forums besides lurking and the occasional question, but this will be my first build post! I have been skating for about a year now, and along the way I met a ton of cool people with really awesome builds. I am from Chicago but started riding in Champaign with @Tyy , who has his amazing orange wrapped brady cruiser dubbed “Pumpkin”. I wanted to create an introductory track board for myself, and this is what I came up with!
Backstory
So, this board actually started as an Mboards Endurance 2.0+. Tyler’s Champaign crew went on a lot of long rides, and at the time I was on my Tynee Ultra Belt which not only felt too small but had too little range. Which is when I bought and customized the Endurance.
I upgraded it in several ways, besides the initial griptape design change, I also put it on a set of Mad 3 Links Tyler gave to me. Along with this, I added foot hooks so I could comfortably start learning how to push corners without the fear of falling (more of a mental block I soon learned). Unfortunately, I repeatedly broke the mad links from a combination of Champaign’s terrible roads and my 215lbs frame. Tyler helped me keep them on life support for a while but eventually I switched to 210mm Dualities from @Titoxd1000
The Endurance was very fun but had several issues. First, the standing platform was too narrow. Regardless of drivetrain or wheel size, I often found my feet hitting the tires at full lean (feels weird). The second most prominent issue was the physical structure build quality. Long story short, the carbon fiber deck split apart after only a month or two.
I emailed Mboards and they were kind enough to send me a replacement, but it was a ways out, and frankly I am an impatient person. So, I reached out to the amazing @tomiboi who constructed this deck for me with my request to make it indestructible. That he did.
Now, it was just a matter of swapping everything to the new deck, which I will continue outside of this backstory page. Thanks for reading!
THE NAME:
Ok… So, it’s somewhat difficult to explain the word Antumbra, but I’ll try my best and provide a reference image. Basically, its Latin for “before shadow”. It’s used to explain a phenomenon during an eclipse in which behind the darkest part of the shadow, there is a spot where partial light hits and creates effectively a lighter version of the shadow. I believe it can generally be used in the context of any light hitting an object, but I learned about it from an eclipse. Also, Destiny 2 (RIP), which uses the term in a raid.
The most important thing to remember from all this is that I might be completely wrong, but it sounds sick so I’m gonna use it.
Regardless, I know that’s an annoying name to say over and over, so the board is nicknamed Annie.
THE PARTS:
Deck: Formerly Endurance 2.0+ Deck (Read Backstory), now Tomiboi Odachi V2, 20mm drop.
Trucks: Tito’s Duality Trucks, Flat Version (210mm)
Hubs: MBS Rockstar Pro 2 XL hubs (Silver)
Tires: Exway CST 162mm Racing Tires (May eventually go with bigger wheels idk)
Battery: 14s8p Molicel P42A Pack
Motors: Two 6485 173kv Radium Performance Motors
Drivetrain: Stooge Open Gear Drive, 78t / 23t. Geared for 40mph.
ESC: MakerX D100
Remote: Flipsky VX4 with 3dServicas modded case and hall sensor. Also, an amazing metal thumbwheel.
MISC: Mboards silver anti-sink plates (The only remaining physical part besides electronics), MBS F5 Binding, Vicious grip tape, a fuck ton of spacers, lots of love.
THE ASSEMBLY
With the help of the Champaign crew, and advice from a bunch of people in the racing scene, I was able to deck swap everything and do it all in a clean and organized way.
Side note: how do people drill through their decks by themselves?! My good friend Brian did an amazing job doing the drilling for the deck and I wanted to punch him the whole time for hurting my baby.
Second Side Note: I originally had this on BRPs, which is why the early photos show stooge hubs.
Brian Helping Trim the Enclosure to make the gaskets fit.
Booty Shot
Board Taking a Nap
Internals (No airflow to heatsink pls don’t die)
Absolute Chonky Lad
Yummy Carbon Fiber
And so, it was assembled! Below I will give even more pictures. Do note as I said previously some of the pictures will probably have it on BRPs, I only just got the Exway tires on yesterday.
There you go, sorry for the unsolicited deck picks, but now on to the notes.
NOTES
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I Absolutely love the feeling of the duality trucks; I don’t get any wheelbite even with the 210mm hangars. These I knew would feel good as they are very tried and true in the esk8 space by now.
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The deck gives me plenty of room to plant my feet, I like the 20mm drop and I think the 45mm drop would have had me scraping the ground with these tires.
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The jump from foot hook to full binding was night and day, despite my protests about drilling into the deck, I have found the momentary pain of seeing the deck being drilled into to be well worth the range of movement that the binding provides.
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It Should be pretty water resistant, as everything is sealed with gaskets of some sort. Not that I have much intention on riding when its wet out, I already fried some of the Tynee Ultra’s electronics doing that.
FUTURE DIRECTIONS and COMMUNITY QUESTIONS
I have been very interested in trying the go kart setup that I have seen people using online. While I don’t exactly have V6 Money right now, I did manage to snag a set of vega W6 tires and hubs for $150. I know there is no chance in hell they will fit without wheelbite on the 210mm hangers, but I am curious as to if they would fit with the 300mm option. I have heard mixed answers from the racing scene about this, so I thought I’d add it here if anyone has any thoughts.
I absolutely love the Odachi platform, but I almost wish there was either a middle road option in terms of drop (like 30-35mm, idk the exact number) to get more in line with the brady cruiser while still having the deck length, or an even larger drop option (60mm) that could accommodate Kart Tires. Either way it’s a problem for another day; on my current setup everything feels amazing.
Eventually I’d like to 4WD the board, but I feel I kind of shot myself in the foot getting the 173 kv motors. I wanted to get a larger set of Radiums and move these guys to the front, but from what I saw online they don’t offer larger motors in 173kv, only 175kv. If anyone knows how that would impact the driving characteristics do let me know! I’m still relatively new and learning about the sport / hobby.
THANKS TO THE COMMUNITY
Thank you to everyone who helped me with this build! @Tyy helped me a great deal with not only teaching me how to skate but also tips and tricks for assembly (and pouring a bunch of loctite on everything). @MacKeeper28 has had to put up with my constant stream of questions to his dms about not only this build but the karting setup, and for that I appreciate all the advice he has given me. All the New York crew who helped me mounting the wheels (Teddy was part of that again and I felt super bad lol). And Lastly to my friend Brian, who not only did a ton of the legwork for putting the electronics together but also made me the baby Odachi you saw in the first picture! He doesn’t have an account yet despite lurking for a while, but when he does join, he has a serious build of the year contender to show.
I will add some videos of me riding it soon!
That is all, have a good day :)).
