I don’t expect to see all of their new products do well, I imagine at least one of the new additions (40t battery, gear drives, or airless wheels) is likely going to suck but I’m most interested in the price point, even if their gear drives become known for failure or their wheels, it would still be an option to spec out a solid board for cheap with all the configuration options. High hopes!
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Well hey, you can still get belt though! So it’s a pretty compelling option as a board anyway.
I think we will start to see battery issues in a year or so, or 6 months for the really heavy riders
@TheBoardGarage has already done some battery replacements on the normal hurricane with P42a
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Yep, only time will tell…
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Pretty sure if this hopefully unlikely event occurs you would just throw a tube in like regular flats.
Definitely could be a huge ass mess, going to need gloves and a towel in the toolkit now.
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Well the main thing with tubeless is you usually need tire irons to get the tire on
Personally I’d rather just carry an entire spare wheel
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I love how they miss explaining and showing all the details of their ‘new’ parts, like the TKP setup and the gear drives. Classic Meepo.
I think the price point @1449 for the bamboo, tkp, cyclones, and 691 wh batt is pretty good for a production board. Other than that tho, you’re getting in the range of the lacroix barrel or telum which are arguably better at whatever they’re designed to do respectively.
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I think at its orginal msrp listed on the site 1799 for the bamboo I’d be the barrel all day but the sale price is tempting.
I think my only argument for the barrel or anything vesc based at this price point would be is what type of user are you? Are you the buy once and done or are you going to carry parts forward, repair yourself and modify along the way. Also what are barrel ship times? Like 8 weeks plus?
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Isn’t the barrel closer to $2300 after shipping and taxes? The price/performance ratio for a gear-drive, 12s4p carbon fiber tkp prebuilt seems right on point IMO. The sale price seems exceptionally competitive in the market assuming the board doesn’t catch fire
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It’s very good. Meepo will be putting pressure on the other companies, especially the smaller ones.
I wish Meepo had better customer service. Sent them an email a couple times with the last one 2 days ago. No response.
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That’s exactly what I’m talking about, 12s4p 40t from a comparatively reputable (as far as China boards go) brand for $1200 definitely puts pressure on other brands, I’m curious to see how this will affect the pricing of competing boards such as eovan, Ownboard, tynee, etc.
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Hm. Yeah I’ve always heard that CS is a problem. Isn’t meepo starting to set up their US support base though?
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This is definitely a step in the right direction for Chinese mass-produced boards. Being able to customize beyond just picking a wheel color or whatever is a nice perk, and their options are pretty good too. I’m sure these will sell very well.
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2100 ish depending where in the US/CA you live. Carbon decks are plus or downside depending on personal preference. Sure it costs more than bamboo/maple decks but that’s highly subjective if its better.
Off-sale price I say its plus are really lead time and gear drive vs the barrel. I still wouldn’t buy it given that.To me i’d pay the extra 200-300 more for Vesc and versatility component wise .
On sale price I say it beats the barrel out imo. Hard justify 800ish more bucks.
I’d honestly say the biggest thing is this crushes anything else in the china board space. Zues, Evolve ect ect
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On paper this is a game changer at the opening price point. Based on the success of the hurricane this will really hurt their competitors. Now offering local delivery and 12 month guarantees is and added bonus.
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Ooh a hurricane with flex and geardrive and tkp.
With regards to changing tyres are they not split rims?
And the 20r cells are higher discharge than 25r at 22a each. Poor capacity maybe. Guessing gear drives might limit the amps used to less than the old 100a esc to match the new 80a battery option?
I would imagine they’d have to be single piece, but I haven’t seen them up close yet. Not sure how else you’d be able to have tubeless wheels like this.
I don’t think they would make the esc worse but who knows. There are a lot of details left out I think
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If you select the tubeless options it changes to a picture with rims that have 5 bolts. Im definitely tempted
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Might just be to hold the wheel pulleys on but who knows. Could have some funky beadlock type system where those bolts hold on an outer lip/trim that holds the tire in somehow (doubtful)
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