R.E.D. Initiative 2021 - Ride.Every.Day

I don’t know much of what you got… but you can get all kinds of reflectors and lens for the systems we use…

anything from a pencil to a diffused fog-lamp style… dirt bikes have to be able to run in super varied conditions, from clear and black, to super dusty, tight and technical to high-speed flat out ridding… probably out of scope… but you can manipulate a well designed system quite a bit…

we run duals of something like these… one side projector, and one side lowspeed and amber tinted lenses

https://www.bajadesigns.com/Products/led-auxilary-lights.asp

EDIT:
and

https://www.bajadesigns.com/Science-of-Lighting/Lighting-Patterns.asp

https://www.bajadesigns.com/science-of-lighting/5000k-daylight.asp

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the race track…

a couple of days ago I discovered a genuinely k00l place to esk8, I normally wouldn’t go down this road, because it goes nowhere but doubles back on itself.

It’s kind of like a V shape, abit over a half mile down-hill and a bit under a half mile back to the connector road with a chance to take a breath…

there are no intersections or stop signs and the asphalt is perfect for thane… slightly downhill with a few gentle curves on the way down, at the bottom about a 150 degree hairpin, and then back up the mostly straight incline…

I found this by accident, but ended up not going where I was going, but circling this epic little race track for half a pack…

It’s fun as fuck…

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Skate beers are more fun than bike beers. Just learning the ways.

Just a gentle cruise with mega dark beer amongst the walkers.

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Yesterday’s rides. Something screwy with metr or with one esc/motor. Huge variance in temp and amp between esc in every ride. All components are new. Going to go through each solder joint and photograph for evidence sake.

Beer ride on this one

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a month or so ago… I got inquisitioned by the cops for hand carrying a plastic 1.75L of vodka past a closed school and and a covid closed church…

I told 'em to go out and find someone else to protect and serve

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Good find, but still it isn’t the tight pattern of car and motorcycles lights

Take a look on this paper

ao-54-28-E102.pdf (1.8 MB)

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look at the two lower links… i posted…

and like I said, maybe out of scope… but these lights are super adjustable… and they had better be, two of these racing lights is almost the cost of a well built esk8 if you count the stator and regulator upgrades…

Look at this, the cut is really sharp

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I did it whohoo. I took my board on a ride…to the grocery store 2.5km away.

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I did it whohoo.

I also made two GoPro videos, I thought! Guess I didn’t hit the right button and didn’t take 5 sec to check lol.

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Just started a ride to hopefully get me out of the big esk8 depression I’m in and possibly beat my longest ride of 50km.

Currently 29c (84° fub)
Got some food and water.

Will be using 2x 10s2p 6.4Ah each
and 1x 10s4p 12Ah

Minimum voltage i can deplete to is around 35ish volt with heavy ESC based sag/limitations at the end (hobbywing)

Board is a slightly modified Wowgo 2s with hub motors

Update: Maybe i shouldn’t have done it on a hot day. 8.7km in and motors +esc are already super hot.

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My vescs are chillin’, motors are hosting a cooking show.

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Update so far…first 6.4Ah battery down, got 27km out of it. Had a long break at a friend but ultimately i think i’m running out of time.

Alright…i’m finally home :joy:

i not only broke my record, i overshot it a bit.

i easily could’ve reached 100+km total if there was more time.
I used both of my 6.4Ah packs and scratched the 12Ah pack a little.

and all that on fucking hub motors!

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ooh boy how are your feet doing?

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Very well to be honest. My back hurts more. I actually have less pain riding hub motors than with pneummies, not sure how that works.

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interesting. slower speeds?

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This run was 20ish km/h average. But in general 20-25ish average.

Pneummies I’m 20-25km/h average too

(both for maximum range)

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From a several days ago. was fun. Always looks more boring on video.

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looks pretty fun… I wanted to go recon the banks this week, but we just got official notification the Vegas to Reno Race is on in two weeks…

I gotta build a race bike…

werk sux

moneys definitely don’t

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