I have this Ares x3 and I absolutely Love it! I was stuck on an Nyx z1 Since april and I found out I despise mountainboards. Lugging it up and down stairs, getting weird looks when I walked inside stores and not being able to truly enjoy riding really ruined alot of this summer for me.
I have this Propel pivot Gt that I used Omniesk8 trucks and gear drives on but I fucked up when I haphazardly applied the loctite. I had a few questionable rides and at least 1 bail so Im eyeing the Exway Gearbox V2 to install on my Propel. Just wondering what the market is like right now for gear drive boards, particularly carbon boards. I feel alot safer on My Ares or Propel as opposed to my Nyx or other flexy board.
@Jacey Has the omni tkp with the crusier gear drives running mad 125s and seems to be putting some serious mileage on them. He gave me his worn out set of wheels and drives to play with and only the wheel interface seemed to be worn out. Gears and the adapter on the wheels were in great shape. I don’t think he’s really active on here but maybe he can chime in on his experience.
I’ve always wondered about these too, but was put off by plastic gears.
2.7 ratio seems a little limiting on the smaller wheels, maybe the reacher 220kv motors would help compensate but then the D-shape only option strikes again…
Gear drives are still like mountainbike disc brake components were in the 90’s when it comes to standardisation and obsolesance.
Got the old drives with the idea that i could maybe adapt them to some other truck - get new clamps and play with em. But options are very limited and proprietary. Also buying parts doesn’t seem to be an option and it quickly got to the “too much effort” “belts are good” tipping point
After having the Ares for a week, I plan On installing waterboard surf adapters on both it and the Nomad n1 along with installing that Exway Gearbox 2.0 on my Pivot. The Propel GT 850+ battery rating is sorely missed in my quiver
It turned my frankensteien tynee stinger that I had omni esk8 gear drives on into a mean machine and that brand isnt even that impressive in hindsight so I cant wait to see how much better my ares turning radius becomes
My main problem with belt drives that pushed me into a gear/chain drive cultist is that too many times even on premium boards like my Pivot GT, I would eventually strip the screw from how often I had to change belts and adjust the tightness of the motors. Not even bringing up how many decent, new jobs with potential were made harder to deal with when my belts were making me late almost every week it seemed like.
What sort of mounts were they? My first pnumie board was a LaCroix Lonestar and it had these stupid spring loaded mounts and titanium screws. I’ve got the earlier version mounts now for that board and have less problems with them, but yeah I can relate.
Idler pullies make a world of difference, less belt slipping and more tolerance for lesser tension.
If you were having to adjust belt tension all the time, you were probably adjusting the tension to accommodate for a belt that was already internally damaged and about to snap anyway. I seldomly adjust mounts. Once a belts stretched it’s cos the fibres have broke, and so it’s gonna break in five minutes time anyway usually.
If you have to constantly adjust tightness, the belts aren’t the problem, and the board isn’t premium. The board is the problem, and it’s not made well.
Hoyt St Tabor, Propel Pivot, and The Tynee Stinger gave me waaaaay too many problems when it came to belt tightness. Boards from varying tiers of booty to actually decent.
The Tabor had the absolute worse belt system ive ever seen and i tried really hard to not be an asshole and make it work but that brand felt like a money laundering scheme with how awful the parts were for the price.
Pivot is a high quality board but I refuse to ride it until I change the current gear drives out to a new different set. The Tynee Stinger was pretty awful thought, snapped both my belts within my 4th? ride with them and I was super dissapointed. Eventually the motor mount screws for my Pivot and Stinger were getting stripped because of all the adjustments and belt changes
After having this Ares x3 shut off on me, the esc overheated and gave up after 12 miles of distance PER CHARGE, I’m gonna hold out hope that the nomad n1 is just as good as the Nyz z1 before I get my Pivot fixed and swing for a Speedboard.
I’ve had this Ares x3 give up after 12 miles of distance 3 different times. I tried ignoring it the 1st time but after a 3rd shut off and having to walk home, I’m talking mad shit about this Ares.
