I Need Help! First Build - DIY Urban Carver - 14S5P 150 A - Project

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Hey everyone! My name is Ilies, and I live in Paris. Not long ago, I got my e-scooter stolen while it was parked in front of my school. Since then, I have been thinking about getting a new one or making a DIY e-bike. But that couldn’t prevent me from worrying every time I park it, or from not being able to travel with it easily because it’s heavy and takes up space in public transport. Then I thought about electric skateboards, and I discovered this forum, which I couldn’t stop scrolling through as I was mesmerized by all the builds!

There is ONE build that really marked me, and that I want to kind of copy the style of VladMRK I’m in love with it!

So the plan is to go with a Trampa 35° Carver Deck as a base, and make a 3D-printed enclosure for my 14S5P 150A battery (the cells are on their way), and slap on similar Trampa trucks. But that’s where I’m stuck right now. I find that the set of Trampa trucks, wheels, and motor mounts is kind of expensive and might not fit my budget. I started looking into L-Faster mountain trucks; they’re cheap, which is not a great sign, but I might go with those. However, I don’t like the rims and tires, which I might change with Trampa PhatLads rims and 8-inch Tread tires.

For the Hardware, im going Full Flipsky :
Flipsky FT85BD Dual ESC
x 2 Flipsky 170Kv 6384
Flipsky Hall Sensor VX4 PRO

Talking budget, i really dont want to go too far from 1000 - 1200 euros.

I managed to learn many things about Esk8s but imma really need your help for this build, so if you have any piece of advice, im all ears ! Thank you alot !

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Take a look at the mbs matrix 3 trucks. With the singularity bushings from riptide these are some of my favorite trucks - nimble and stable in a way that breaks the mold. Also very compatible with most drive trains out there right now. Known high quality and a little less than the trampa - i think you would be disappointed in the temu trucks pretty quickly - i have no experience with those specifically but i have used a lot of cheap trucks and especially when first learning and developing confidence on an eskate the ease of adjustment and tuning on good trucks really helps.

Going with belt drive train is a better way to save money, also starting with cheap but good hubs like the rockstars or hubba hubs will save money but not sacrifice quality or ESPECIALLY compatibility.

I don’t know what experience you have with battery building or 3dp for the enclosure but if i could have seen and followed any one piece of advice on my first build - kiss - keep it simple stupid :grin:. Keep the number of new skills needed to a minimum and don’t over complicate the build - make a working system THEN modify and expand on the scope.

I think the motors and remote are a solid choice. I hesitate to recommend the esc because ive lost the flipsky esc lottery too many times. I would beg you to buy the esc after everything else is almost done and you can program and test it while still under warranty. That’s how my brother used to do it until he switched to makerx and he had pretty good results. Buy from a source that has a good return policy then get it riding asap within warranty. Budget wise there’s nothing cheaper so i get it, just protect yourself from bad luck here and don’t do like I’ve done and have all the parts but take up the whole warranty period building - then find out it was doa :rofl:

that’s a sick build to emulate, excited to see how you go about it :grin:

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thanks alot dude for taking from your time !
About the trucks, i found the INFINITY ATB Mountainboard Truck - 16 inch from trampa, for 60 euros the unit, i dont think i would be able to find better than that for that price, even in quality, compared to the mbs matrix 3 that are 100 euros each.

talking about the L-Faster trucks, i saw a post that made completely remove them from the list lol, it’s the post of Louie, he didnt talk much about this accident, but i really dont want my trucks to break under my feets at 40 km/h…
For the 3D printing part, i was inspired by the work of many as :

and this build, i couldnt find the @ of the builder as i only kept the pictures :

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i m pretty much confident of my 3D designing skills and i already have an idea on how the enclosure will look, im also planning on installing a bump guard kind of thing to maybe protect the battery pack, im still not sure but we’ll see.µ

concerning the Battery, i have a friend that has a shop where he actually makes E bikes batteries, so im letting him do the battery work for me lol.

One last thing im so excited about, is actually the motor mount, yall gonna take me for a crazy dude, but im going to 3D design it and print it, as i saw the expensive price of 100 euros the set of motor mounts for these trampa trucks, i was in shock, and i started looking asap for 3D printed motor mounts, and i found out that it’s actually not that hard to make as a system, and it can be durable and strong enaugh if you design it the right way, check this :

My goal is to build something that is affordable, yet sturdy, easy to repair, and visually appealing.

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Consider tpu for the enclosure. The harder duro tpu seem to be pretty rigid and absolutely indestructible. Im planning on printing a tpu enclosure for one of my boards to replace the over large one it has currently and all my small experiments are very promising.

I have my doubts about a motor mount but that doesn’t look to bad. The only thing that may be a problem is the hold drilled through the truck. Seems like the clamp design might be under built for how i ride. Im not nice to my builds - have broken a few aluminum mounts. Post up progress - i wanna see what you come up with

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Actually, I couldn’t figure out how he managed to mount his motor mount without it changing angle, since the frame is round… but I wouldn’t have that problem, as the trampa trucks are square shaped :head_shaking_vertically:

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