My Esk8s. A journal of sorts

Yesterday during the day there was no riding…
But in the evening I rode to go play ping pong at Benji’s house and stretched it out on my way back home.

I have been using cheap headlights recently and like the concept along with the shredlights.

I decided to drop big bucks on a nice set of headlights and my mind was totally blown by how good they were…

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Today is a hard day…
Last day of vacation…
Back to reality tomorrow…

I put the Flux on the bench to open it up to try to fix the DV6P…
I only got as far as taking 5 of the 500 enclosure bolts out…

I hooked up with Daniel and we went Onewheeling on the mountain bike trails and it was awesome…
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It’s super nice out so as soon as my wife gets back I hope to get out some more.

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Parts for the Pint X…

Figuring out how to connect the Foccer is pretty stressful…

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Waiting for someone to fit 4x of those tires on an esk8

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etoxx type shit.

Something I am pondering.

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Speaking of pads I got some new pads to try in my Beyond Riders armored summer shirt.

they are from RevZilla and are CE level 2, but they are extra light and pliable…

They right off the batt the jacket seems to sit better.
I will probably get a set for the Lazyrolling hoodie too…

I am perpetually on the search for upper body protection to wear when it’s brutal summer here.

What has caught my eye most recently is a small fortune so I am struggling to commit.

The Knox Urbane MK2 shirt, or the newer MK3.


I just saw it’s on sale down from 300 bucks so I might have to send it…

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@rusins do you have this jacket? What do you think?

Spring is in the air and I am sprinkling rides left and right.

Going back a few days.
I finally got out on the Demonseed with the Razillian Trucks set up as TKP with the Akashas.


And it is really good like this.
It is super low and super playful.
And I just can’t help but love these tiny wheels.


I wish I already had the battery upgrade in here…
But that will come.

The Gravel Boi is getting a ton of action.

I definitely have felt like riding it more than the Gravel Flux, that is more boaty feeling.
And it is what I grab since the Flux is out of commission.

This night ride would have been a Flux ride if it was good to go.

Mondays lunch break ride was on the Llama.
Now new and improved with the Z-mote.

What a great set up. And the MAD wheels are such a good fit here.
I like the Akashas way better than the MADs for the Demonseed.
But here on the Llama the MADs just fill me with confidence for carving hard.


After school pick up I played around on the ATV Ditch Life a little bit.
Which I need to do more of… Such a cool board.

Monday evening I went Onewheeling with my buddy Drew and we went on the gnarly mtb trails.
Here we are laughing about how if our board fell off the trail it’s about 60 feet down to the creek…


It’s just so freaking cool riding Onewheels in trails…

It sucks so freaking much carrying Onewheels on trails…

So we keep going and we run into 2 dudes riding EUCs.

This is wild and crazy around here.
So we all go ride together.
And it was awesome !!!

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More group rides to come I hope.

Drew’s XR battery died and I came back on the Gravel Boi with the Pint x for a rescue mission!!!

Not bad for a Monday after vacation…

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Tuesday at lunch I wanted to take the Gravel Boi the MTB trails.

I changed the bushing set up to see if I could navigate the single tracks better.

From orange to white in the front.


And I put the orange back in the inner position from the outer position.

There were plenty of spots I struggled with. But I think the change made it way better. And I didn’t kill myself on the road with the extra loose trucks so that is a win.

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These trails are really cool.
It’s a bunch more exercise than riding on the road.

I do wish I had someone to ride esk8s with me on them…

The after school pick session was on the Demonseed.

Second ride on this set up. And I liked it even better than the first ride.

I can go round and round on these tennis courts forever…

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And catching up to today.

Drastically colder.
86 yesterday. 50 today…

Started the morning with a brisk warm up on the GT.

Lunch break ride was on none other than the current darling the Gravel Boi.

And I did change the bushings again.
Put oranges back up front.
And whites on the outside in the back.
kudos to @mbs for making changing the bushings so easy. Even the back that I had to change position. Easy breezy with my wera key…

So this is a new configuration for me.
I had oranges on the Outside in the back before.
And this new set up with orange/inner front and whit/ outside rear may be what I stick with.
I had It a bit looser than before and had no scary stuff happen.
So yey.

I don’t mention it or post pictures always.
But school pick up is now done almost 100% on the Gravel Flux.
Talk about living the dream.
Favorite part of my day.

And today’s post pick up session was on the Rally Cat.
Just a mellow carvy cruise.

Once again thank all the gods for Akashas!!

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That’s so cool. I would have loved this as a kid.

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And the back of the trailer is filled with snacks like cookies and fruit snacks and apple sauce…

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So awesome. And good to know you might have found your happy place with respect to shockblock hardnesses and positions.

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The breathability of it is great, I would have died with anything else on when I was in Portland. That being said it’s black, so it heats up in the sun like a frying pan :skull:

Also every time I’ve fallen with it I’ve still had my skin tear and bleed, so I kinda prefer my padded hoodie instead :sweat_smile: (The padded hoodie also shows less signs of wear)

This jacket has a chest-pad attachment available though which is really cool.

Personally I think it’s overpriced for what it is, but maybe I’m just used to sweat-shop pricing :person_shrugging:

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Ai dios Ahmyos!!!

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Getting into the Flux…

Wish me luck.




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I fucking hate this DV6P and I am close to slapping a Unity in here.

Such weird ass shit with trying to set up and upload firmware…

Fuck a duck…

Put 6.02 on. No good.
Put 5.03 back on.
No good.
Put 5.03 back on again…
And at the moment it seems good.

Fucking sketchy dude.

I have not had an experience like this with the Unities…

I am leaving it open for now.
Will see what fucking mood it’s in tomorrow morning.

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Let’s go try this out


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Well.
I went and did 20 miles.

Seemed totally normal…

The only difference I had from before when it was having motors amps at 90 instead of 95…

Sometime mid ride I wanted to jump on the App to see battery and temperature and it was taking forever to connect so I gave up and kept riding.

That was the only kinda hiccup…

When I got home I was able to connect fine and even changed motors amps to 95.

So. I am happy it worked.
It’s a great board.

I can’t help but feel somewhat uneasy.
Because it was working like this before.
And then it wasn’t.

But I guess that is esk8…

I did unplug and resolder the remote receiver.

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