Caster boards general thread. Everything related to caster boards.
What is this?
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ScootBord?
On a related note, what is this? Brand+model is the wrong answer.
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From the thumbnail, some hightech lawnmower ?
Damn you
jk
mega info quote
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yep
Maybe also Streetboard is the closest cousin.
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I think that video will need to add more VFX transitions and filters, not enough cowbell either.
I’d really like to see their steering mechanism, but it’s all hidden on their website.
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Definitely needs more cowbell 
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Looks to me like simply a special CNC pivot part that goes into the center of the front wheel bearings.
My only question is if they have any trail for their caster.
much less messy diagram
Well yeah, they would have to. If the steering axis passes through the axle, the only way to get trail is to rake out the steering axis.
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Also, since y’all are clearly disobeying my directions and hurting my feelings very much, I will inform you that:
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actually, I’ve been coming around to the idea that the most general name would be “inline boards”. I think it’s descriptive and sounds pretty clean
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That sounds closer to describing those boards with 2 MTB wheels and no steering from way back in the day before reliability was invented.
Are you talking about dirt surfers?
I don’t think “inline” has anything to do with MTB specifically, it just means it’s a single track machine
How about “things like skateboards that aren’t skateboards”
Then we can include the onewheel.
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How would that help someone make one of the boards seen above?
I mean I would like to see a onewheel with added features of a single Freebord castor up front, and could have rollers on the back if you don’t want dragging. Nice that the vesc controllers are quite compact so you can find room to mount something like that on the front easily.
Then you can take the middle hub motor off and have one of these more plain boards.
I feel like the onewheel is mechanically in the same family as the EUCs. Rigid single wheel and electronic balancing.
Inline boards (ripsticks, SpeepDord™, dirt surfrers, mine, etc) all have a related layout and related steering geometry for front wheel articulation.
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I can agree to that, stick it in the “balance wheel” category along with the og segway
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