Hey everyone!! I just finished (Needs final touches) my build, and as a good DIY esk8er I will not be happy with my build until its perfect. After several motor configurations, batteries and boards, i´ve commed to a point where ive got awesome specs, and cofortable riding, but one problem has arrised.
The best places to esk8 near me need to be reached by car, which was not a problem with my previous iterations, but now my esk8 is so long i cant fit it in my trunk . So this thread is to find a solution to that.
I´ve found out that by removing the rear truck the board fits snugly in my trunk as my motors are rear-mounted. So i would like some help from the great minds on this forum to find a reliable alternative to the classic bolt system that isnt a pain in the ass to setup. Bolts doesnt work for me as would like to use my board for comuting from where i park the car to Uni so i cant screw and unescrew everytime i want to put my board in the car.
Thanks in advance for suggestions, i will be tomorrow in the shop so i will maybe update this thread if i think im onto someting
I am thinking you should be able to work something out with an adjustable baseplate and t-handled pop pins. I am also thinking it would be very hard on your phase/sensor wires.
Being a surfer I would think about a roof rack. I would also try the back seat before making an extra way for my drive train to come apart.
I´m already onto something, but i will look further into the baseplate idea as it requires little to no work. I have some sketches of my other idea that i will upload tomorrow (its a piece of shit lol).
Unfortunately, this process significantly stress self-locking nut’s anti-vibration layer. I have already destroyed one because of this. This eventually lead to constant unlocking under vibration. Does not sound safe to me.
Moreover, if this happens in the middle of nowhere, and you have no pliers or a hex key, you are doomed to tighten it by hand every half a mile.
Dropping the backseat has two disadvantages, the board can be seen from outside the car, and if i want to carry some passengers with me, i cant but for trips to enjoy riding and not for comuting this is probably the way to go
If someone understand this please tell me if this is a good idea. It is basically a device that you attach to the top of your deck, that has a locking mechanism for some custom bolts. A plate slides and locks the bolts in place. the cons of this are some complex machining that i cant do, and it is probably expensive as it would have to be from a very strong material.
1: mount motors under deck
2: mount motors on top of the deck (like 90° from the road)
3: sell car, get bigger board
4: modify the wheelbase if possible, make the tip to bottom total length shorter
I have pretty much an idea that would work. I´ll do a 3d model this week and 3d print a first prototype. This is pretty much out of curiosity, as i dont have a cnc machine that could cut the final pieces out aluminium or steel.
You could have a full bag of king pin nylock nuts in your boot, and put a new one whenever you bolt it together and that’d still be a very easy affordable (reliable) solution.
. So this thread is to find a solution to that.
