many people used to just learn to ride sensorless. and learn the subtle hip shake to get over the shaking without pushing.
HFI is cool tho.
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I have an extra set of Trampa heel straps sitting on the shelf if you’re interested. Totally understand if you want to get a little more used to the board first but I feel safer with heel straps on. DM me if you’re interested. Happy to trade for a 4 pack of beer.
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How exactly do I fix this?… 
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If the other end is still there, you can strip back the insulation and splice it together. Might fix it
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I personally keep a set of Pre crimped JST PH2.0 connectors for this exact reason.
If you have enough wire length to do what @tuckjohn said, that doesn’t require buying anything and is probably the easiest method.
If you don’t have the wire length, you can order something like the pre crimped connectors, cut off the pins for the female side, strip back the insulation, solder both wires together, heat shrink, and insert the new pin into the JST housing.
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Ok, so I can solder the ends together?
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Yep that’ll do it. Remember to put the heat shrink on.
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I think a sensor wire snipped in such a fashion is better off being crimped back together.
To solder it one needs to overlap the ends, shortening the wire in relation to the other 5, putting more stress on it, and it is a high mobility area, so the wire will likely break at the end of the solder under the heatshrink.
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Adding a small length and soldering twice would accomplish this.
I wouldn’t recommend crimping to a beginner, but I would recommend soldering to one. Especially if you don’t know how good their crimping setup is.
Additionally, a good solder and shrink will be stronger than the wire it’s self.
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The smallest butt crimp is still pretty huge, even with the proper skills and tools, so I won’t disagree.
But a newb allowing a huge mass of solder to wick up the wire, will just have the wire break, even with hefty shrink tubing bridging the splice. Full immobilization of that spliced section within the flexible loom, would be required for any sort of longevity, IMO.
Glue lined heatshrink does not bond well with Silicone jacketed wire, nothing does, IME.
Proper sensor wire joinery could be its own thread.
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Please somebody smarter than me, I’m begging (most of) you
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If you do end up soldering the ends together the new joint will be susceptible to breakage where the still joint meets the flexible wire on either side.
Applying a flexible shrink tubing over the soldered repair can help prevent the breakage points, but the problem will then move to the ends of the shrink tube, so consider using wire wrap to bundle all these wires together - they’ll be a lot stiffer afterwards, but it will protect the wire and the repair.
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Thanks for all the advice everybody, I’m going to try and solder the ends and I’ll put some flexible wire wrap like you were saying @beadon, I’ll update if it works.
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You joke, but I’ve done this, and it’s fantastic.
Going to a sit-skate race in Toronto in a few weeks
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Street luge is cool AF.
Electric Street luge would be even cooler.
Also have done this. It’s awesome.
I’m definitely going to play around with the idea more
But how do I connect the seat to the deck 
