What up yall I’ve been gone for a while but I wanted to post this here to talk about it and hopefully, if I manage to get a demo unit, share my thoughts. Who knows if I will, but maybe @MBS will hit me up!
Anyway, MBS has a new release!
https://www.mbs.com/electric-mountain-boards
The Agent mountainboards! They’ve got a lot of interesting features and some new stuff that we’ve never seen before in the industry.
Remote / ESC Combo: From the photos we can clearly see that the remote is an Exway Rexus remote - this means only one thing, the ESC must be an 18s hobbywing! This is a brand new thing to the industry, and I’m super stoked to see how Hobbywing handles 18s! Also, the Rexus remote is awesome. Great screen, great feel, nice thumbwheel. Only complaint I have is the battery life could be better.
Motors: They look like they could be DXW but I’m not totally sure. Acedeck has a 6890 motor that looks similar as well but the rear of the can is rounded, whereas this one is flat.
Gear Drives: These look to be a completely new design on the market, but they smell of Exway, in a good way. The gear drives on the atlas pro were very reliable, and also used similar construction and steel-on-steel helical gears. I’m hopeful that these prove to be reliable and sturdy. They offer only one gear ratio at this time, which appears to be 15:64, aka around a ~4.3 ratio, which is a good balance of speed and power for 18s.
Wheels & Tires: Looks like on one variant with standard T3 tires they’re just using Rockstar II
But for the ultra wide variant, they may be using the Rockstar Pro II XL to get the compatibility with the wider tire. This wider tire has been seen being sold by Newbee and Exway, and is quite a premium pick, but looks awesome.
From Exway:
I’ve been itching to get my hands on these and try them out with Newbee Impalers or Pentagram but I can’t stomach the price
Battery: 18s! Pretty dope to see a production level board with 18s, especially a hobbywing one, this could be a new generation of power for our enjoyment! There are two variants of the battery on their site, by math, presumably 18s2p and 18s4p of P42a cells but that info isn’t fully available
It has some decent features
However, they both command extremely premium prices. I hope their durability and versatility will hold up to that cost. They have a unique quick swap system that we haven’t seen before as well, which is extremely intriguing, especially to me, since I designed my own mountainboard top mount quick swap system some time ago.
Maybe it uses some sort of cantilevered clip? Sort of hard to tell from the video and pics
Trucks: They appear to be Matrix III, the 280 variant, which is cool, because what that translates to is that we have another option for steel gear drives on Matrix III trucks!
Deck: Reminds me a lot of the Haero bro, including the footage of it flexing in the video, but it is distinctly MBS. Very neat, lots of inserts. Two battery cable channels as well.
Bindings: NEW MBS bindings! This is cool, but expensive. They seem to have an attached metal baseplate rather than relying fully on the nylon straps. certain users have had issues with ladder straps breaking recently, and this change in mounting seems like it would help reduce the stress applied on the ladder strap significantly. However, the compatibility of these new F5X bindings with certain decks may vary a lot.
They appear to mount via a middle channel of sorts, and then have infinite? rotation ability. Pretty neat. Good news is they appear to be compatible with the same over-foot and heel straps as the F5’s, so I wonder if we could maybe get piece-parts as an upgrade kit?
Anyway, enough yapping. The price is premium, the newness is vast, and I’m excited. What do you guys think? This post reads like an ad, and despite wanting to be affiliated with MBS, I am not.
Please send me one to rip around and compare to my DIY mtb 
). I think the content we’re producing on these shows that our vision for the sport is bold and long term.
