These look sweeeet! Im in sydney australia, Im so up for one. looks fantastic. I’ll PM you later
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Nice specs 
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I’ll extend @janpom with my experience - I finally found somehing for comfortable riding on thanes. I have shoe size 45 and I must have front of the shoe slightly overhanging (1-2cm) to have fingers directly on top of the wings and center of weight over the centerline. otherwise my calves suffered and I lacked maneuverability.
12S7P 18650 fits nicely in three rows single layer with custom enclosure, 12s8p should be possible without BMS (or a bit larger enclosure and smaller bms)
what I’d appreciate would be longer wings for more leverage in tight corners and mitigating feeling of slipping. but that’s only for tracks. on streets it’s perfect the way it is
overall, love it! finally something long other than re44 (mine took 366 days from inquiry to delivered) or deamonseed 44 (afaik not possible to buy anymore)
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Super nice, doooood!
All best wishes for selling these to the esk8 masses 
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Lovely job! Great to see these going into production. Looking forward to seeing them on the street sometime!
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Testing SR TKP drive with Trampa Superstar wheels and Metroboard tires. This is my favorite GP setup so far.
Yeah, I’m using mismatched motors. 
It works surprisingly well though.
Dual 6384 Reachertech does not fit on the hanger. 
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Are they the same/similar kv? What kind of differences are you seeing in the logs on those two motors? Temp differences? Current draw differences?
Im really curious about this setup.
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They are close. The Reachertech (bigger) is 170kv and the Maytech is 190kv. It appears the current is fed to them proportionally to the max current settings, which is 100A and 60A respectively, so the bigger motor is taking 10/6=1.67 times the load of the smaller motor. The bigger definitely gets hotter but to some extent this is due to the fact I have a 3D printed spacer between the motor and the motor mount so it can’t dissipate the heat to the mount and truck. The smaller motor doesn’t have any spacer. I’m going to have an aluminum spacer made so we’ll see after that.
So far I haven’t noticed any issues. I haven’t pushed the board near the speed limit yet though. That’s where I imagine things may get a bit sketchy due to the different kv.
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Nice, proper science.
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Righto, this one has been with me for a little while now, but haven’t made the time to do anything with it due to me being a shitcunt.
Seeing as Jan is ready to start sending these things out into the wild, I figured I better at least have some feedback to offer, so I popped on some trucks and went pushing for a few kms…
First Impressions
The following are my opinions of this deck. And we all know that opinions are like arseholes, they don’t all smell the same.
Flatness
This deck is flat most of the decks that I truly enjoy, have considerable shape/contours that help with finding comfortable positions for your feet. What I discovered on this ride is that those contours/concave really help with your control of the deck. The lack of concave had me feeling a little unstable and a little less in control of the board.
I wondered if the little wings on the sides and the drops would be enough, unfortunately for me, they’re not.
The drops are beautiful, really nice shape and not too big. Love the drops.
The wings are barely noticeable. I’m sure they help a little, but they’re not really enough for me.
Flex
I was surprised at how little flex the deck actually had given it’s lack of concave and construction. This was a welcome surprise.
I feel like the amount of flex this deck has makes it perfect for an average speed cruiser/commuter. Just enough to absorb some road feel, but not enough to detract noticeably from response. So in that regard it’s good.
But the way it flexed was kinda weird to me. It didn’t seem to flex and then spring back like a lot of boards do, it seemed to kinda keep on bouncing, in a kind of wavy manner… hard to explain, especially because i’m not a huge fan of flex decks, but I felt it was worth noting.
Stance / Standing Platform
I’m tall. Like 197cm. The photo above is me at pretty much my maximum stance while push boarding. There is plenty of real estate on this deck, and if it were much bigger, it would pretty much be too big. I think this is a perfect platform size for esk8, especially with those drops at either end to lock into 
Construction and Finish
I was surprised at how light this deck is. I assume that comes from the lower density of birch compared to maple or bamboo. The strength also surprised me, I expected it to be flexier than it is.
The deck is finished quite nicely with it’s black paint job, all the edges are nicely rounded and the paint isn’t laid on thick so you can still see the timber grains and textures.
The truck mounting holes are nice and tight with minimal/no slop and worked well with the Randall trucks that I mounted to it.
In Conclusion
I personally need to add some concave to this deck. That’s a personal taste and YMMV. I’ll be building up a little on the edges of the standing platform and probably a slight amount of W as well.
I’m likely going to stiffen it a little by adding a layer of 600gsm woven roving to the underside and 200gsm cloth to the top. Once that’s done I’ll add my concave and W, then skin it with a graphic to seal the deal.
I think this is a great platform for people to build on, and experiment with. It seems to be well made and reasonably priced for what it is.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
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Great review👌
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That’s great feedback. Thanks a lot for the write up, Al. I’ll be looking forward to your thoughts after making the adjustments you mentioned. That’s certainly something to take into account if there’s ever Granda Plata v2.
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Okay, this took a bit longer than expected but first 6 decks are finally in. More will hopefully arrive next week. 
I will start shipping these out to the new owners early next week.
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I dont know why I imagined you being short, but I did. I definitely did not expect you to be 6’5" 
Hmm I think that means you could big-spoon @DerelictRobot… I’d pay good money to see that.
Anyway, awesome initial impressions write up! I’m excited to hear from more people as these decks start shipping 
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Bro he’s Australian, that’s 5’6" in American imperial.
Stop embarrassing me in front of our friends. Gosh.
Edit: apologies Jan I got tagged in not realizing what this thread was. These are some nice looking decks!
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I’m taller laying down.
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197 cm
laying down
bruh i feel ya. you ever just lay down in the grass, and look at the clouds, and then a plane hits your dick and ruins the whole vibe?
laughs in 5 foot 9 jkjk. @jan, nice deck, but its way too long, my limits 37 or 38 inches. i love the style, though. my deck guy is wonderful, but im not sure how open he is to big batches, so i may bother you about that in the future.
Looks like a solid contender for sure, good work! I would seriously consider getting one just to have a build name Mostly, but not entirely fat dick!
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I made a few improvements to my GP build.
First, while the @XTLA mounts are very sexy, they are also very long and can’t be forward mounted. Having the motors backwards mounted annoys me since I’m used to grabbing my board at the front truck and pull it like a trolley. That doesn’t work with backwards mounted motors. I have to grab the rear truck instead, which is harder because the motors are in the way. It’s also heavier to lift.
I really wanted forward mounted motors. So I had custom mounts made. They are very simple. I just drew the shape and had them laser cut from 5mm aluminum. By far not as nice as the original but after a little bit of sanding they look decent. I only kept the clamps and crossbars from the @XTLA mounts.
Also, since I was already at it, I designed the mounts with a big enough opening for the bearing on the Reachertech motors. Now the can sits flat against the mount and there’s no need for spacers, which is nice and convenient. Pictures:
Next, I only had lucid grip on the deck and I felt I wasn’t getting enough grip. First, I cut a few honeycomb shapes from griptape and added them on top of the lucid grip. This actually helped a lot.
Then I got the idea of adding a half-biding for the front foot for even more support in turns. I didn’t see any good way of installing in the traditional way so I reverse mounted it instead. Thanks to the flat deck shape, the binding baseplate sits on it nicely.
This is working very well. The binding makes a huge difference if I want to turn aggressively. Yet it doesn’t lock me in too much (which I wouldn’t like) and is reasonably easy to bail out from.
The only problem is that the ground clearance under the motors is a bit lacking. I actually hit a motor can on the way home today. 
I may add a riser and tilt the mounts slightly more upwards and/or 3D print a bash-guard.
Other than that, I’m very happy about these changes.
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