Wow, that’s interesting truck. Ackermann steering, need to google that.
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Yeah I slept on the 200, front end only not esk8 friendly, too expensive, but the 300/400 setup looks really really interesting.
is ur front truck a bit crooked
About all of your thoughts about not loosing deck space on the EVO/Switchblade but having more space for trucks/wheels. What about just making the truck mounting points themselves longer so they extend farther fore and aft of the deck body?
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I think that’s the current consensus on the preferred way to do it.
Personally I have a pretty small stance so I don’t mind a shorter deckspace for feet, but as others have stated the space for wheels and rear mounted motors is of the most concern on the switchblade.
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100% yes. I think you’d see more switchblade 40”s with motors and Pneumatics if you did that
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Showed these pictures to the sales manager and head engineer they both immediately started talking about the factory that makes these wheels. Apparently orangatang lets other companies use their cores as basically everyone uses that factory to make wheels.
It’s been very interesting seeing the pictures of what you’ve all built and then being in the middle of conversations between engineers as they dissect when they think you’ve done certain things in the building of it.
As for deck shapes, there’s an landyachtz deck from way before my time with them called the switch. Like a switchblade, but the truck mounts rise a good way above the deck. google that and let me know what you think the pros and cons of that shape would be?
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The drop of the switch is pretty damn deep. Such a deep drop is not ideal for esk8 as we need to fit the enclosure underneath as well.
I really like the idea of the fixed blade with slightly longer truck mounting points.
The majority of drop thru decks used in esk8 end up getting top mounted anyway, so the cutouts are kinda unnecessary.
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Keep in mind, the drop on that switch is meant for 75mm wheels. So with larger 155mm wheels you’d have an extra 6cm or so under the deck, combined with risers on the trucks etc you could still end up with solig ground clearance.
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all this talk is making me want a DS switchblade enclosure to go with this alleged new pneumie-able switchblade.
I hope the curves stay close to the same.
There are a bunch of people who like using urethane wheels, and they’re quite common if you’re building from a traditional longboard platform. Mountain boards are a different story, but 85-110mm wheels are super common for street boards.
Add to that a minimum of 20mm, realistically 25 to 45/50mm for enclosures, and big drops are a problem. I ran my Evo on 120mm wheels and still needed 25mm risers to clear the ground at all because I got an enclosure that was a bit too big
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Yeah… i also just hated the feel of the deep drop om the switch. I’m biased 
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I actually tried 150mm wheels with TKP trucks in drop-through on a 40" Switchblade. My single-stack enclosure would scrape the ground on turns 
Pic has 165mm wheels, which solved this issue, but close enough.
And my non-drop-through urethane build with 100mm wheels also has barely enough ground clearance on turns
My point is – don’t under-estimate clearance! 
(And I wanted to show off my builds, lol)
P.S. I also think the drop on the regular Switch is a bit too much. Sometimes you have to jump off the board in an emergency after all.
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That sounds pretty good to me!
I think you misunderstood. They’re all skaters, and they’ve never considered using boards for something other than skating. So it’s an area they’ve never really thought about. And in their minds, Landyachtz is about giving people the tools to go out and use their body to improve the health, lives and have fun while doing it.
There’s a difference between not being personally interested in something and being dismissive about it.
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Didn’t mean to press send yet.
The part about using our stuff to allow people to get out and be active was one of the main things they were into when I pitched this. E-Bikes, esk8’s etc are great for allowing people to get out and be active when otherwise they may have a physical issue that would prevent them from doing it, and they were very into the idea of commuters on esk8’s taking cars off the street.
New technology letting people get back to an activity is great. For me, I love motorcyles but I ruined my ankle playing Rugby years ago and straight up can’t shift with my left foot anymore. Honda’s DCT bikes are looked down on by a lot of riders but for people in my position they mean you can get on a bike and go riding again. Technology!
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I actually got into skating purely from the tech side of eskate, I’d never been a longboarder or any flavour of skater until last year so this has made me begrudgingly get out and exercise on a push board too. It’s a good way to trick nerds into using our legs every now and then
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I grew up on mountainboards taking them down a sledding hill when I was a kid and always dreaded walking it back up again. I always dreamed of a rocket powered board so I could just downhill forever.
Now as an adult with somewhat disposable income, I can do that! Even just being able to ride the board to the nearest park was an awsome change. I fell in love with being able to cruise and explore further than I ever could and started pushing a longboard shortly after.
Flash forward and I own many (several LY) decks and push 2-3 times a week around the neighborhood, with the kid, with the doggo, etc. I don’t think I’d ever have picked up non electric skateboarding if I hadn’t started with an electric offroad monster weirdly enough.
Every board is its own unique connection between you and the Earth 
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@rusins your drop through pneumie switchblade is beautiful - I want to ride it.
@its.ibbo one interesting thing about Rusins switchblade that is relevant to eskate. He is using tkp trucks, which result in a longer effective wheelbase than reverse kingpin trucks. The axle to axle length with TKP trucks is up to 2” farther apart, and this helps alleviate wheelbite issues. 165mm pneumatics would probably run into wheelbite issues if mounted drop through with RKP trucks, but Rusins might be able to share more to confirm.
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