Thanks for your kind words. Sadly, I’m not yet able to produce Flexboardz but I plan to be ready soon (this spring).
I will post a summary of the 25 years of Flexboardz story, with the different stages of development, production, its successes (having customers) and its failures (unability to produce boards on a regular basis).
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That’s great! Thank you! I will definitely be staying tuned and keeping an eye out!
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I don’t mean to be impertinent, but you are getting older, and a speed up is warranted. Have you ever considered crowdsourcing?
You can see below the 3 first protos of the Flex dvt.(at this time, I was unable to make cantilevered wheel axle)
The first one with the aluminium arms was meant to test the independant wheels and the “structural” design (the board has some “thicknesss”, like a bridge).
The second one was an attempt to make a “summer snowboard” which was the promise of the mountainboard then (around 2000). It was also a choice to move away from mechanical solutions and replace it by flexible material, like a board.
It was quite radical, with only 2 parts (top and bottom) only connected by the wheel axles and is probably one of the ligthest board ever (around 1.5 kg w/o wheels).
It has even friction brakes integrated into the wheels cover…
Basically, it worked : it handled the rider weight and was able to turn but the wheels were not always perfectly paralell…
So, I made the 3rd proto, the black one, which was fully fonctionnal.
After that, around 2003, I began to work on production/industrialisation and I had to use what the factories can produce, aluminium, plywood,…
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That’s not impertinent, I have been considering all financing solutions, including drug dealing and prostitution…
I managed to produce (in Taiwan) and sell Flexboardz between 2005 and 2010. I had to stop because I was unable to find reliable suppliers.
I considered crowdfunding for the Flexscoot project as it can be produced locally in reduced quantity but I was reluctant to owe money to customers.
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Man, you should sell kits!
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That’s basically the idea but as in the past I have had production/suppliers problems, I want to make it differently.
So today, the target is to make home made boards with only few suppliers (wheel axle) somehow like a shaper makes surfboards.
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