EOVAN / Stakboard Aireless Wheels Review

similar confidence over terrain to the 110s but not near pneumatics I guess?

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Surprisingly these have a little higher confidence in my eyes over the 110’s although they feel harder. You can tell that there is less thane/rubber on the wheel compared to the 110’s but even at that, the larger size and wide wheels still give a confidence edge. I actually haven’t ridden the 110’s in a while because I had my pnuematics on the board for the last month or so.

Pnuematics are still a much more comfortable ride and provide even more confidence. However, something interesting that I’ve found is that these wheels do sometimes have more grip offroad due to their huge offroad contact patch.

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Yes, I am really quite interested to get a set of these in addition to the full rubber version.

seems like a really good thing to try out given they are new and high performance.

would love to see the future versions of these rubber at wheels

They can make inflatable PU wheels, would be cool to see rubber versions of this

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Yeah surprisingly though the wh/mile numbers are closer to pnuemmies than I’d like lol

all those rubber wheels are sticky as fuck. Grip comes at a price…
Take off your belts and try to push your board, you’ll have approx 2m of freeroll :smiley:

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Yeah they are really grippy but because of the design of these the freeroll isn’t that bad. Much better than pnuematics. This also makes the ride harder though

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Interesting seeing the differences here. The pulleys I received did not come with those nifty rubber inserts to help them grip the wheel, just some crappy heatshrink.

Additionally, good to know the difference between the wheels people get. I received the Super RF wheel, listed on the site as “These wheels are best for fast riding and cleaner road conditions”

Whereas some people seem to have gotten the Super RS are described as “Best wheel option for most kinds of road condition on the street(including sidewalk) even it’s rougher”

It will be interesting to compare Wh/mile numbers across these two different wheels.

Annnnnd he had the same exact width problem that I did with those pulleys that caused me to design a new pulley for them. And he also received them with the weird size bearing in the pulley.

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Any updates @ShutterShock?

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Hmmm yeah I guess I would have a few more things to say about these. They are not on my board right now, but I may end up putting them on again

Since I’ve started making videos, I decided that one in the near future will be on these wheels. You’ll have to keep an eye out for it. :grimacing: I feel like I’ve put enough information in the thread for now, and I’ll put a link to the video here on riding impressions and final thoughts after 100+ miles.

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I’m potentially interested in trying the 105mm airless with cnc core, so I maybe could use your pulley as a reference for the forks. Really on the fence though about them at this point with momentum wheels coming soon. They are the same thing as the boundmotor 105 airless? Who makes all these wheels since they all look the same; eovan, boundmotor, stakboard

Nm on the print it looked like you had printed the metal part too

Also you can’t replace the tread on these wheels so you buy a whole new set with cnc cores because the tires wear out? That seems dumb. Can’t you just treat your wheels as a hub motor at this point and sell these for them?

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Don’t know if it still matters, but you had the wheels mounted backwards. Imagine the thread as little arrows, they should point to the front. Just a little heads up, if you plan to use them again.

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What are those?

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I mean… Who knows. My bet is that it’s boundmotor that found the factory first and then Eovan uses the same. I don’t even know if Stakboard makes any of their own stuff since they sent me eovan branded wheels lol

I don’t really know. You can peel back the rubber a little bit but it would be very difficult to switch out. I suppose you don’t buy new sleeves for urethane wheels when they wear out but it’s not quite the same thing. Especially at the high price of these wheels. I have done like 130 miles so far though and the front wheels are barely worn at all. The back ones are showing some wear but that’s mainly from doing burnouts on dirt all the time

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Hm. I mean it doesn’t really matter but it made more sense to me to have them going the other direction for same of grip, since on offroad dirt, the wider tread would grip first

Given the almost identical wheels and similar design, I would not be surprised with all the wheels are manufactured by the same wheel company. It would be interesting to know which company actually manufactures all these wheels.

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This kind of thread is designed to be used in wet conditions. Imagine the thread as channels, they are designed is such a way that the funnel the water out from under the wheel and to the back. When you flip them around, they channel the water to the front of the contact patch, which is undesirable. If the road is dry the orientation doesn’t really matter I suppose.

This design stems from the automotive industry and gives you better grip on wet surfaces. They are not intended at all to be used in offroad conditions.

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Interesting. That makes sense, I literally never ride in wet conditions so I guess that doesn’t matter.

That is also probably the main reason I switched back to pnummies, I like to go offroad casually on the board they’re on and these just weren’t efficient enough.

Surprisingly, they work well offroad though. The wide contact patch and shape grip pretty well.

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Nobody asked for it but I did an official review on these anyway, as a way to start gathering data on all of my wheels.

Enjoy!

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