Multiple heats is always helpful to establish pole positions so we aren’t killing each other on the start. (Barrett junction was kind of a cluster F start)
I really wanted to do the San Francisco Cannonball run. Location helps and unique racing conditions are enticing.
How would you describe heats in the context of esk8 racing to someone that knows nothing about racing?
Basically, you do a lap for time, either by your self or staggered. You are just racing clock.
Then based on times, you line up in order with quickest first, staggered Mario go cart style.
A few prelims helps shake out the quickest riders.
It sucks for bad luck or a fall or broken gear to be the reason you didn’t get to have a shot at winning. Multiple heats with gives you a chance to recover if something happened.
Maybe a “best of two runs” could work. I ski race and we do this sometimes, usually for casual races.
“ Short” courses with many turns put an emphasis on technical skating ability, and help to level the playing field gear wise. This makes the races open to a several commercial boards as well as conservative diy builds.
Agreed, I don’t think anyone should be going more than 30mph on a course with multiple people on it.
Well, some people wanna go fast. The point of having the course shape limit speed was To make it viable to more racers. It’s not so much safety. You can break a collar bone going 10mph or 50mph.
We’re gonna be running it again in a couple months, come down. Our group ride route is the best ever(quoted from NYC eboarding)
Oh, and batteries!!!
Ask a potential racer from Portland why they didn’t show up to your race. How am I going to get my batteries there? True, ground shipping, ughhhhh …post office and planning 
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Some folks drive, our overlord, @longhairedboy drives up, I drove an RV to Colorado With multiple boards from other racers in it. I am not an RV driver apparently, but @Bobby is 
. That was rough.
Some one rent us batteries already! Alternatively, maybe u put out an address people can ship to and then you get to babysit their diy IEDs.
Edit for specific shoutout to @Hoyt’s modular packs and the nesse packs (@s5300
Seemed to think dissembling and reassembling nesse was viable. But imagine bringing 84 21700s on your carry on)
you drive to races. You tour in a land based vehicle. You have to take at least half your shop with you. Spares, tools, gear, way too much shit to fly around or ship. If I was going to get into racing i’d have a small trailer with enough parts and tools to build three boards right there on the track if I needed to.
That’s how its done.
Who knows, maybe i’ll get jake and matt on a track this year or next. But that’s how i’ll do it if I do.
also fat high current cells. and target a top speed around 25-27 because its all about torque and turns unless you’re drag racing or doing some huge grandprix track
Only for Moe’s outlaw series, the rest of our shit needs high top speeds
also kart tracks which will be very popular as I forsee kart track owners seeing the money in this soon.
Three rules for puting on an Outlaw race.
Seriously- keep it easy, simple and most important fun. Slow guys need a place to build skills. FAST guys need a place to be humbled. Pushing boards to their limits is how the tech gets better for all.
This isn’t true, you just don’t know about them big dawg. I’m eventually going to start organizing esk8 races but I will need people to come to them first. Which is more difficult on the east coast.
anyone can pull the trigger and go fast… It’ takes TALENT to conserve speed, learn cornering, and race a technical race… but I digress and agree, both venues need to be addressed!
Count me in
To me it seems like the scene is not big enough for local races most places. Most people are not interested in racing. There are interested people here and there but they are to far from each other. The bigger events that actually have been able to gather people for a race with more than just a few have had people from all over.
That’s true for where I come from anyway. We have had some very good opportunities for some good racing but almost no one show up. They are turned off when the word racing is mentioned.
This is why I think casual racing should be given attention too. Ideally esk8 races also serve the role as esk8 community events for the region they’re in.
For instance… almost all the track events I have been aware of hava been more like a group ride on the track. Very few actual races. I have access to a bad ass track but I am almost the only one interested in pushing boundaries on the track. And short track is a very obvious for racing. It’s alright it’s just how it is. I just look forward to us being more.