Kind of depends on how much you slip or drift. My slicks are still doing good after 5 practices and esk8con, but I don’t do much drift (way more than usual at esk8con due to surface quality) but its really hard to even tell how much tire I have left since theres no indicator of wear
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It’s really about the wheel temp, me and Morgan use laser thermometers to make sure we don’t go past a certain heat. Or they just die.
Gotta use the slip angle as much as possible imo.
But it also has to do with rider weight I believe, I’m 190 lb.
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Ah yeah - it hasn’t been hot yet. Phoenix will be a real test
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Are you calling Ryan fat?
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The Wide 45 BRP has been a good answer to the 190 plus racers for controlling wheel temps on hot days.
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Unfortunately they are too wide for my diy evo, I’ll have to see. But yeah Morgan seems to love those
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I find these insults tiresome and unfair.
Using intimidation and bullying to prevent anyone else from selling trucks with heim joints is not good for the sport. It holds back esk8 development. Just because you were the first person to use heim joints on a truck does not mean that everyone else is barred from doing so for all eternity.
Even if a patent exists, it’s not enforceable in court. 3-links are “prior art”, as they’ve been widely shared on the internet since at least 2018.
Many people respect you and everything you do for esk8 racing, but speak privately about how exhausting your attacks, intimidation, and “only I can design and sell trucks with heim links” attitude is.
I believe that you make the best 3 links, but also that more competition in truck designs is a good thing.
I’d understand if you were upset that someone copied your trucks 1 for 1, but the newbee design is substantially different in both form and function.
I have a lot of respect for you as a mechanic, inventor, and team principal. I don’t want to come across as a hater here, but I genuinely think you pursue this grudge at a detriment to yourself and the sport, and hope you reconsider your attitude toward 3-link production in the future.
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He’s smart, he knows how to put people on tilt then use it against them. He’s said he “knows exactly what he’s doing”
He’s not alone in his opinion that things should be copied to foster innovation and that people being upset that copying happens is not acceptable. But he is the one acting “out of spite” and being a troll.
I have him on block. i strongly advise it. tho every time someone posts anything SRB you do know he’s there. because you get a hidden reply.
only person i’ve bothered to block on any platform ever.
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alright someone come get their mechanical engineer
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What a joke.
The hypocrisy stinks in here.
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Appreciate you posting this, and trying to summarize these viewpoints as reasonably as possible.
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I think it smells like updog
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My point was total wattage is very different - sort of throwing back to something that might have been the numbers on the old LYFOC speed controllers.
Should have been more clear. It’s probably still over rated numbers though like the rest of the boards
Also, neither would be possible without insane sag or heat build up on 2p lol
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Yea, I think the esk8con track layout definitely shrinks the power gap as Vasek (3rd in Pro) and I (6th in Pro) were both running stock hobbywing based escs which would definitely get smoked by everyone else on that field if the straights were any longer. If you watch the vid @Tasventouras posted you can see how much his board is able to just fly away down the back straight 
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Edit: forgot to add that Meepo actually had two different ESCs at esk8con a LYFOC based one and a Hobbywing based one both putting out similar power (~100a total range) historically they do tend to feel different in terms power delivery though, sadly I only got to try the hobbywing based one so can’t compare the two directly
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Ya haha I think that was part of the goal of the track design tho. You still did great regardless!
Tas’s board is sick and very powerful
I’m looking to swap these onto my boundmotor flash.
Based on the photos, does anyone know if 3 hole pattern motor mounts would work with these new 3 links? If not, what belt drive motor mounts would?
Also, does anyone know what mm the axles are?
What do you think will happen to the battery if it is really pushed? Sag? Overheat?
I’m assuming like most prebuilt boards, it will have a discharge enabled BMS, rather than the discharge bypass that we all use in DIY. These are typically around 80 battery amps IIRC. That would put the board a little over 5kw peak power. Pulling 40a from a p42a is going to sag and heat. They are rated for that, but from what I’ve heard it’s not really ideal to run them that hard.
It’s a reasonable assumption that this is just a spec for what the motor is capable of, and it’s not stating the actual peak power of the board.
I do not think a 16s2p board is going to be able to lay down 7000w. You would be pulling over 50a per cell. If you did that regularly, as you identified, you’d get a lot of sag and heat.
Throw a top box on the monsoon to double the peez, and I have no trouble believing 7kw
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