Hey kids.
Last Christmas I convinced my neighbor to buy his 10 year old son a Zealot.
It was an awesome Xmas present. Great value.
Then they layed chipnseal all over our neighborhood and ruined all of the roads.
Urethane was a no go, and the Zealot started to get no action.
So I needed to figure out a way to get tires on a Backfire Zealot.
And this is the roundabout way I went about it.
It mostly revolves around Evolve parts. Because I had the DKP trucks around and know those work with little pneumatics. So I also got some used Evolve Hubs and some 6 inch Hota tires.
So we are really looking at a Deck Swap plus…
It all got slapped on a Rayne Crush deck, Which is not too different from the Original Evolve Bamboo GT Deck.
Taking the Zealot apart was pretty straight forward.
The only real obstacle I had was the motors going on to the evolve mounts.
But Dremel and washers, and it seems to be working ok…
Then I needed a long cable to connect the battery to the Esc.
For the gasket I am using the magic of Butyl tape.
Thanks to the magic of winter I have not been able to ride it on the road yet.
Torque seems to be pretty good going back and forth inside of the house.
I tried to approximate an estimate on top speed with the calculator.
And curious if I did it right.
But if we can get a little above 20, this will be great.
And if needed I can slap a 15 tooth pulley on there instead of the 14.
