Good thing it has a urethane slide plate to prevent wear. Good pickup!
So high off the ground lol
minus the squeaks with requires a biweekly subscription of wd40 been loving the thing
Standing definitely helps it squat down a bit, especially if you’re a plump dumpling like myself.
This is awesome thanks for sharing!
Radium suspension Russian style.
I like how this guy uses the cheapest parts he could find, 2 gyro scooters for $30, cheapest 10$ shocks, valve springs, diy deck, and a lot of work.
He’s making a Lada Mach1 and I’m all for it
Yea, the height is not ideal. But on the screenshot that’s at full extension, the suspension arms are supposed to be closer to flat when I stand on it.
My current build has 102mm madwheels, and avenue baseplates + 25mm risers. So my axles sit 80mm from the bottom of the deck. I have a lot of experience riding on a very tall cruiser board with a short wheelbase.
This design at full extension is 106mm, and the suspension has 30mm travel.
love the easy to make model.
It would be interesting to use a popsicle deck with a suspension design that looked closer to a Flexboardz w/ horizontal struts on the corners. Or like Moe Stooge’s off road design using a single long suspension arm down the middle (suspension pivot shaft also reduced from 2 to 1, plus maybe using a single shock supporting front and rear). Hide the suspension a bit and possibly allow lower ride height and larger wheels by having them on the edges of the deck.
your current idea could be adapted to use a single shock connecting front and read suspension, what are your thoughts on that? I think part of the downside would be you would need to add travel limiters that might negate weight savings and be a failure point. Not sure Bajaboard S2 vs Bajaboard G4X shock design with 4 vs 2 is anything to learn from translating to this type of suspension.
Haha, yea, I’m trying to design it without any CNC or custom parts, suspension arms and shock mounts are going to be cut out of the same 60x40x3mm aluminium square tube (truck baseplate fits tight inside of it). And axle mounts are off the shelf blocks:
Oh, I see what you mean,
I’ve tried a quick sketch:
Not sure how to get it to center, cause if I try to use kicktail it will just collapse the rear arm, it probably needs some king of extra linkage.
It also reminds me of Citroen 2CV suspension:
There’s one shock that works on extension - Kugoo S1 rear shock
I’ve considered using it, it’s more compact, but it has 0 adjustment, and unknown specs.
Here’s another idea, what if I just take the spring from that shock, put it onto 2 TPU bump stops, and use limiter straps. No shock mounts, ~0.5kg less weigh, no giant holes in the deck. Those crappo bicycle shocks are just springs without any dampening anyway.
I’m designing everything around 9-10" cruiser deck, 100-105mm wheels, evolve style 12" hangers slapped onto standard TKP baseplates. The enclosure that would hold swappable 12s2p 21700 pack, vesc and fit in between suspension mounts could be made out of this:
Ewwww there’s an entire forum of evolve fanboys? Gross.
Also how TF does that thing even turn?