Aight my kats n kittens
idk if i like got 7 years of bad luck or something but a massive string of bad luck whiffed over me this year. here’s a recap!
here’s my board last I put new parts on it (the Picket Rocket motors, fully disassembled, cleaned, and reassembled gear drives)
Mid January:
my pucc pot has kicked the bucket! so that needed replacing, not a shabby start
23 March:
i hit a truck, bent the kingpins that I just installed in Late Dec
25 March
motor bearing explodes in my hoyt pocket rocket motors, ~3 months old
rekt one of my hubby hubs too
I fully clean my gear drives and service them best I can
board is now 2wd, and the PR motors struggle oodles more, causing them to reach 110°C with mild 20 mph riding within 2 miles
17 April:
I smack a curb, further bending my kingpins
April-May:
i get a punctured tube, and i was lazy, so I ran a flat tire for about 2 months
Come home late May
fully disassemble the board, cleaaaned and reserviced the gear drives again. bearings are dying, and one is seized to the case
one gear drive is completely stuck to the axle of the truck (we’ll get back to that later). that is left alone
But! it’s new motors, and rebuild time
that same day:
vesc bug is found (best explanation, no person standing on board, give it enough throttle to start losing traction, keep bumping throttle, but if you try and brake from being on the throttle immediately before, no coasting, it thinks it’s forward throttle, so it keeps going forward)
bent my kingpins, and broke my esc box
update to 6.2 to hopefully remove the bug
June 15:
i fix my kingpins’ finally!
June 20:
Board thinks it’s a pinball at an intersection. full yhrottle incontrolled for 20-30 seconds. screams across, hits curb, hits wall/fence, hits truck, yeets back to me, ban gets in way, it hits van, then stops (no one hurt, no damages apparently). board kingpins: bent. both esc boxes: broken.
no matter, i can use my old board while i wait for new parts to arrive!
June 24, old board:
I go on ride
go over water hole cover thing, tiny. 5-10mph. it moves and lifts, and i yeet. thought my 3 links bent. turns out it’s ok!
jk, i stripped one of the hole threads for the screw that holds the link to the baseplate. even sadder! i was video recording but my phone does this thing where if you bump it, it shuts off and won’t turn on unless you plug it in, give it a spank, then hold the power button, no other way. the video of me eating it was corrupt.
both boards sit a little while
July 3:
alright! new parts arrive, time to fix my board!
jk again. turns out that when it pinballed, i also broke my baseplate! oh, also, as it turns out i’ve also been riding my board with 2 out of 4 motor pinions shifting back n forth, retaining compound gave out (prepinball, a clicky sound was noted shortly after new lotor installation, thought it was the set screws that hold the cans to the motor shaft, which, arrived from factory without any loctite 
, all were loost, with one already gone)
the full damage
and that brings us to the present, with new baseplates slated tk be shipped out this coming week. I’m almost completely rebuilding my board , again 
more to cum
estimated cost from first iteration summer of ‘21, not counting sales of old parts, probably forgetting some bits, to this message
$11,595:
estimated cost of ownership of 2023 thus far:
$2100
. Couple questions…