Hey y’all, so BAEsk8 is hosting a rally style race across San Francisco. It’s for DIY electric skateboards, production electric skateboards, electric scooters, and electric unicycles. There are actually two days of racing, first day is standard race for people who wanna go in a straight line really fast, and second day is for the actual rally.
The standard race is on a confined section of road. Each class will race their race and we’ll take the winners at the finish line. This is basically the “safer” race for people who don’t feel comfortable on open roads.
The cannonball race has got two major components: route finding and ride skill. Basically, the first day you go path finding for what you think will be the fastest way across San Francisco. Then on race day, following all traffic laws to the best of your ability and staying safe, you run that route the fastest you can. We will take your start and end times as you cross the start and finish lines. Keep in mind San Francisco is not your average city. Crazy hills, crazy traffic, crazy streets. It may be only 7.5 miles across but it’ll test you to the best of its ability so you better be ready!
Prizes will be awarded to the winners of all classes for both races so don’t feel like you need to do both. But personally if I had to do one I’d do the cannonball run
Where: San Francisco, California
September 6th-8th
For production & DIY electric skateboards, electric scooters, and electric unicycles (class based race)
Hosted by Bay Area ESK8, Sponsored by Hoyt St, Shredlights, Last Mile SF, Minimotors USA, Weped USA, Evolve Skateboards
I’m hereby challenging @Psychotiller, @longhairedboy, @MoeStooge, et al to test your chops in this race Feel free to tag people y’all think should also race and see you out there!
This is gonna be an amazing time for anyone who loves electric vehicles, if you’ve ever wanted to skate in the city where esk8 thrives you’ll wanna make this event. Sophia did a great job and it’s gonna be unforgettable
A team race or relay race does sound fun though… or like a giant skate across America thing where everyone relays to another person near by until we relay from coast to coast
Haha this sounds awesome and also kind of crazy! I can’t imagine how crazy that would be to ride on San Fran streets with all that traffic. You better have a strong board too because of the hills XD
Feel free to tag people y’all think should also race and see you out there!
haha.