Tighter trucks, good foot placement and strong knees&ankles
Solid advice. Iāll get on that.
Normally I would put some sort of foam there as well, especially on carbon. But in this case, squishing the battery seems like a bigger risk to me (by putting rider weight onto it) than just using the bare essentials to insulate the battery from abrasion under vibration.
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Yeah Iāve already got annoyingly wide turning circles and limited range of motion because of tight trucks (well stiff bushings plus wide trucks, not cranked down super tight, but same thing). Iām going to put together a shorter wheelbase board asap to try and get around this, strong lower limb stuff sounds good though
Try softer bushings tightened down more. If you can do split angles Iāve found that works really well for maintaining turning and stability on a balance.
Over 30km/h I find my legs get really stressed, and the way I learned to handle speed wobbles was to just have a rock solid stance (while still having bent knees to act as shocks). Eventually you sort of learn to ārideā the speed wobble sort of like a wave.
90% of boarding is muscle control IMHO
I ride on rkp trucks, and found that loosening the trucks quite a bit and then riding often really helped me increase speed. It seems counter intuitive, but hear me out.
You ever try a slackline? When you try to stand on one with just one leg for the first time your leg just wobbles back and fourth no matter what you doā¦ until you do it for a a few days, then your brain figures out how to control your leg. You donāt really do anything different, your body just adapts.
With the trucks loose, you force your brain to figure out how to control the wobbling monster under your feet and it smooths out after a few days. Iām not actively thinking about how to stabilize the board, I just ride and itās smooth. When I swapped stances I was wobbly all over again like I was first riding a board, until a few more days passed.
Iām not as fast as some of the racers on the forum, but I can casually cruse at 25mph while talking with an ebike friend, and weāve got some rough roads here in the midwest.
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Use narrower trucks (especially the front ones) and if you start to wobble, begin carving to quash the wobble. Donāt overtighten your bushings or use ones that are too hard. It seems more stable but this is just masking and amplifying (via hysteresis) instabilities that are present. Avoid TKP or DKP, especially on rear trucks.
Learn to put most of your weight on your front foot. Steer with your front foot. Your back foot should merely keep the back of the board on the ground as you go over bumps. Donāt forget to steer with your front foot. This is easy to forget. Your front foot drives the vehicle. Your back foot just makes it easier to balance on your front leg. But you should still be having most of your weight on that front leg.
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Yeah, I second this as well
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I third this. Too tight and it snaps you back uncomfortably.
Loose trucks save lives.
@mr.shiteside really work on keeping the weight down on the front foot. The faster you go, the more you should be leaning forward and really hammering down on the front foot.
When Iām hitting my top speeds, I feel like I could lift my rear foot off the board sometimes. Never going to try it but itās literally just feathering the back of the board to keep it in line like a rudder.
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Think I might force this to practice. Find a clear area and simulate wobble, or just practice a mix of wide and sharp craving
Similarly this does sound good, I know regular riding has definitely made me the most comfortable Iāve been so I might force the issue and go loose to get practice
Thanks folks
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idk how you guys go fast with loose trucks, Iāve got so used to my trucks snapping back I canāt go loose anymore. I hit 54kph the other day with tight RKP 270mm 30/50
Now that sounds horrifying tbh, maybe itās because of my stiff trucks and long wheelbase I have to put my body fully in to turn at all, but the idea of being anything but wide and centred (with a small lean to compensate for acceleration or deceleration as needed) is spoopy
Just for reference Iām on BN220s, 50Ā° baseplates but Evo so split angle (I think itās -8Ā° on the rear and + something close on the front)
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theyāre totally right about the front foot thing. more speed should put more pressure on your front foot, your rear foot will just be pushing super lightly on the edges of the back of the deck to keep you in a straight line.
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I second this
If you balance on your front foot and just touch your back foot lightly to help keep your balance, but you can almost pick it up at any timeā¦ this is how you should stand on the board at higher speeds.
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Wide stance for sure but centered weight is where the wobbles will start. If you want to see it in scary action, try doing the opposite and keeping the weight on the rear while accelerating from a stop. Youāll notice it gets hecka squirrely really quick.
If Iām guessing, I keep (what feels like) 3/4 of my weight on my front foot while zooming. I wish I had 2 scales to see the real difference.
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You want your weight on the front of the board, I just keep leaning forward at all times anyway, you get used to it. I only lean back to brake.
Riding a board is very different from standing still, obviously.
Off topic but I thiiink the reaction force from acceleration would bamboozle the scales, but you could get a good idea by taking a picture of the stance and working out the centre of mass geometrically
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Center of mass for acceleration should be forward of the center of the board
Rear of the board for deceleration.
i hit 81kph on 78/83a bushings 
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I use a weird combination of 76A, 80A and 84A