Shock pads look awesome, well done 
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I did just throw loads of stickers in his order - does that count? 
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Those shock pads look very tempting. Got one question for you: what about dirt? Would I just need to accept that crud would collect in the channels?
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Yes, You need to accept that mountain boards get muddy.
Here’s on if those shiny boards after is first ride with it’s new owner
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Like Q said, mountainboards get dirty, but you can very easily remove the pads and clean them, you could even jet wash the mud out with them on the board if you like.
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Are you saying your esc case are jet wash water proof?
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Deffo not staying that, the shock pads are jet washable. That said havent heard of any ingress issues with the ESC cases from normal use
Yes this! But very stoked on the shock pads!
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I would like to see a shock pad that can cover motor cables. I prefer to keep the number of boxes to a minimum in my builds. Every mm of lid circumference is another opportunity for water ingress. Also “long” motor wires > “long” battery wires.
That being said, these shock pads look incredible, great work team apex!
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A short modification to these and that’s easily done.
I prefer longer battery cables myself, but understand why some like to have the ESC in the middle
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I dont think Jack was talking preference, I think he was talking about the induction caused by long battery cables and the problems that can cause with your ESC, where long motor cables dont have that problem. There was a thread about it on here a while ago if anyone is interested.
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Link to it please, I’d like to know more about it.
Lee, anymore information on the mod you are describing? I would be interested in this as well if I could fit my phase and sensor cables underneath
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Oh yeah I’m aware, it’s never been much of an issue for me personally though, which makes me prefer to run power as its just less fucker with sensor wires etc.
@kilow just making the gaps for running the cables wider, I think from memory they are 12mm wide and 4mm in Z, I can easily increase that so that you can run the phase and sensor wires. I’ll redraw a second version and if all good list it tomorrow
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Fully agree. I chose to run the motor phase and sensor wires under the grip on my eMTB, and it was a massive pain in the ass. Your bro shock pads look excellent. I have been meaning to print up something like those for a while, but haven’t got around to it.
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This thread has a ton of good discussion about the topic. Like Lee said though, for something as small as an eMTB I dont think that it’s too much of an issue. Especially if you are using a quality ESC that has a proper amount of capacitors.
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Yup, this is why I didn’t say anything when Lee mentioned his preference. Sensors are a pain. He’s right.
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So as you guys might have realised from the pictures, we built 5 complete electric boards. We are calling them prototypes but of course they are made up of all the parts that we have been making and the best of what’s available so everything is well tested. It’s more of an exercise for us - how long does it take us to build completes? Are we capable of the logistics involved? Are we able to support customers that don’t come from our DIY world? All that good stuff.
In the run up to making these boards we had enquiries and we presold 4 out of the 5 boards, today we got the listing sorted on the website and sold the remaining one in 1 hour!
Selling these 5 boards has been an incredible journey for us and we are of course super proud and emboldened. Anyways, we are of course super happy that 3 of the 5 have gone to youtubers so we will drop their videos as they come out in here, heres the first one!
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