I, too, have borne witness to this phenomenon, as I glided through the streets like a rocket-powered deity, my trusty water bottle acting as my turbo boost. It’s a marvel that science has yet to fully comprehend, but who needs peer-reviewed studies when you’ve got firsthand experience? So next time you hit the skatepark, don’t forget your hydration and your ticket to the fast lane.
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.or could just lean forward.
I think if you’re at the limit of acceleration, where leaning forward isn’t helping anymore, you’ll be spinning wheels and be better off just strapping the weight down to the deck. No math necessary
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I have found that if you step off the board while riding, it experiences a significant acceleration increase. @ross_forp have you experimented with this theory?
have you tried this experiment for youself?
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yes.
unfortunately she caught him.
his motors only supplied a limited amount of force, and the extra mass from the beer bottle reduced his acceleration just enough that he couldn’t get away.
It peaks at a certain value
*counterweight = bottle, rod = rider
If you save the shit cannon for the correct moment it could also function as advanced torque vectoring. Radium needs to trade mark S1 shit cannon ASAP.
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No. That’s where he goes to talk about esk8. The physics chat is here 
Just curious if you model this as a fixed input force from the car, and add your water bottle.
what has to change in the system to keep it from falling over? in your mind, does that result in increased acceleration?
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If you over simplify the problem by ignoring that the center of mass moves forward when you add the counterweight, then doubling the counterweight mass, say from 10kg to 20kg means you can double the thrust to prevent rotation, but the total mass only increases by ~9% (from 110kg to 120kg), increasing acceleration.
I ride faster with my knife out.
so with the same input force can you show a model where adding mass increases acceleration?
I’m not sure you can actually ignore the center of mass moving.
compared to your example just now you can instead keep the mass the same, double the thrust. which would require increasing the lean angle or otherwise rebalancing the center of mass. (using leverage instead of increased mass to balance ) with no increase in mass and twice the thrust this would be more acceleration than your example. suggesting adding the counterweight just added mass which decreased acceleration.
No one’s saying the input force stays the same when you add counterweight… It assumes you’re limited by not falling over rather than limited by motor thrust.
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I havent ignored it…
now lean to your maximum & then add a counterweight, what happens?
You fall over?
So you increase thrust to avoid falling over and accelerate faster…
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