Update day!!! We’re on the road boys!
Shout-out to dickyho for basically supplying all these parts! A couple days ago I got a box from him with lots of brand new goodies in it, and today it’s finally out on the streets!
The plan was to use a 35" blank MTB deck but it’s still got hella wheel bite, as in the wheel pulleys are almost touching the deck, so I’m using my old drop 40" deck, no bite without mods
As expected all the kit parts go together perfectly, the mounts and trucks feel super secure, and damn does it look good with the silver/blue/black coloring. I added some paracord to the mount brace so I can drag the board around by the tail, I need to redo it but for now it feels good
Being the greedy dumbass I am I went with 8" instead of the tried and tried 6" that the kit is made with, and I regret nothing! The massive wheels are HELLA nice, it goes over destroyed sidewalks like it’s nothing…I’ve gone over the same path with my electric longboard and 90mm wheels, it literally cannot go over some of those cracks because the wheels get stuck, but now I just roll over everything!
The problem was that nothing fit off the bat, the threaded rod support for the motor mounts touched the wheel pulley so it had to be removed, and the axles on the TKP trucks are shorter than the bearing stack on the wheels (the stack on the pulley wheels is thinner for some reason) so I stuck the hangars in a lathe and took the body of the hanger down just enough to thread the nylocks on backwards, now everything fits
It felt like sacrilege to cut up a new MayTech but I needed them to match my Unity so they have new 3.5mm bullets, I’m gonna use an MT60 as an adapter for the enclosure eventually and it matches that perfectly
The battery is VERY temporary, is the 10s2p of fake 30Q cells I made a while ago using cell holders…it’s still holding up but it’s got hella voltage sag. Its currently wrapped in seran wrap and duct taped to the deck with the charge port hanging out the bottom, there’s no antispark or loop key but I have an XT90s coming off the BMS and an adapter from XT90 to XT60 going to the Unity
In it’s current state of 10s 170kv 12:72 8" it’s topped at 18.8 MPH according to GPS going down a slight hill on full battery, it’s geared for hella torque rn and I love it! It’s just slow enough I can’t get bad wobbles and I feel safe enough to not need a helmet (on flat ground at normal voltage it can’t even get to 17 MPH)
I’ve never used TKP trucks except on a nickel board (didn’t like it then) but these trucks are fantastic! Even with a 36" wheel base they can make a U-turn in my neighborhood (roads are just wide enough to drive with a parked car on either side), so I’m expecting it to be super agile when I get the deck with angled mounts and shorter base to work
Because I’m so light (120 pounds) there isn’t enough normal force when I’m breaking to keep pressure on the wheels so it starts skipping out, I need antilock brakes so bad, but the skidding is also kinda cool
P.S. my cat LOVES the new wheels