Ahhh Dirtbike chain grease/oil. It’s what @MoeStooge told me to use if I wanted to use any.
- Meant Motocross
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Well… That was an eventful intro to speed for my board…
First it started with my pinion giving out, then when I replaced that we found out 3 of my 6380 mounting holes stripped, and I’ve made sure to not over tighten those. So board was out of comission AND now I’m going to be down $140 for a new motor 
Doesn’t help that @torqueboards swapped to 190kv 
Special shout out to @fessyfoo for letting me ride his Nazare around the track!
Also special shoutout for my dad, who ran back home to grab my extra pinion. Thank you so much Dad!
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that must have been fun 
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no you meant:
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Gracias Kookers 
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I think you can strip those holes by over torquing, but if you haven’t already be sure you’ve learned the magic feel to never cross thread, as doing that once is far more likely to have stripped those threads. sucks either way.
i was impressed you could turn it with it tuned for my weight. 
This. I particularly feel the disappointment of having saved the day to not have the day saved. 
good dad you got there.
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explain your pedantry. I know i’ve offended with my lack of comprehension now but I still want to understand.
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no such thing
is a thing
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An awesome one 
I was impressed as well that I could turn it. Much easier to turn then Steve’s boat lonestar that’s for sure!
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Problem should be solved in the next couple of days! Ordered two Sk3 6374 192kv motors after @malJohann having some success with them. $180 down the drain in “repairs” that definitely hurt, but I’m hoping to recoup 1/2 those costs by selling the perfectly fine 6380 to my local buddy to replace his 6355 single drive with a 6380 single drive.
@malJohann anything special you did to these motors?
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Shoved as much Amps at them as I could!
Seriously though, check the three cap-head screws around the shaft on the mounting plate for tension and/or LocTite if you’re so inclined. Those screws came loose on one of my motors over time, and the amount of LocTite on there was less than desirable.
Other than that they ran like a champ!
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@DEEIF at least 50% of the problems with SK3’s is those three screws… loctite them in and don’t strip them…
EVaR!
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Awesome day on the track, so glad I spent the time on Friday finding the perfect sized screws that made my TB6380’s usable again. Backlash is almost perfect, a few correction on them and it’ll be perfect.
So this part is more for me to keep track of but for all you racing people here’s what the track was like.
3 C turns one after another (Technically an S turn with an extra C at the end of it) then when you exited the last corner it was a about a small straightaway (I doubt it can even be called a straightaway) into a fast paced, looping C turn that brought you back to the start.
This was the smallest track I’ve actually ridden on, usually I think ours are about double @fessyfoo? It was small this week because there were two kids learning to ride dirt bikes in our usual spot.
I’m pretty glad we actually had this tiny track, it really took effort to find the perfect line, very technical and pushed you to your limit.
Something that happened to me was that roughly an hour -> 1.5 hours in and I was comfortable on the track I started to notice, not on purpose, the faults that people in front of me were having. This meant that when I got behind someone and had to pass them my brain had absentmindedly memorized where they took a corner wide, or started to break too early, and made it so that I could guess pretty accurately what they were going to do, before they did it. This surprised me since I hadn’t noticed being able to do that on any other tracks we’ve setup. My guess is that since it was smaller and I did it faster, I got more laps in so that I reached the point where I knew what was coming next and knew what to do, so I didn’t focus on myself as much. This gave me more focus to spend on seeing what other people did.
The other thing I was happy about was that when Brandon Togerson hopped on his @MoeStooge v4, I was directly on his tail. I couldn’t tell if he was taking it easy or not, but I’m going to think he wasn’t because, why not 
Best of all, THE BOARD DIDNT BREAK
Thanks @fessyfoo for setting up the track (I think) I’ll see you in two weeks, sadly I’m missing the one on the 27th…
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this is awesome.
this is awesome.
yeah. After I first squeezed it in there I thought perhaps I’d blown it this time. :D. but everyone said good things about. it.
it was a smaller setup and we packed more people on at the same time and it was indeed really hard to pass. so cornering and passing skills were gained by many. .
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track was awesome! Great job this week!
Hey @DEEIF what was the makeup of your portable charger? what parts and such? and why did it catch on fire?? 
j/k I know we’ll never know that last part.
MPPT solar controller like Andrew and I think @Arzamenable used. I ran my backup 13s2p 40T pack as the battery source and connected it to ground control.
I think it shorted against its metallic case which made it catch on fire. This was what I got from how it looked after and the part of it that was damaged. If I were to do it again I would just do an optional Parallel XR Pack
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Wait wut?! Pics?!
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I think you already knew about this @Arzamenable… Just burst into flames and Mario kicked the pelican case closed which cut the oxygen. Happened a couple months ago
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