Watch yourself on that monster 50++ year old here speaking with nasty “experience”
But yeah , skating something like this board will def bring youth back to you!(if it ever left you btw). Enjoy that beauty, damn fine board.
I almost jumped the gun on one of these , but i’m going to ride out my days with the 2 boards i already have. E-skating being illegal where i’m from made this choice easier… thankfully because damn i would have really liked one
Thanks for your good advice, and duly noted. Hopping on one of my Italian superbikes is getting more difficult as well and so this new board gave me something to look forward to. As an aside, you can get one for decorating your man cave and ride if should you desire, and I would say you would ;). It does have adjustable response settings which I am taking advantage of to tame this beast. But, it’s very stable and confidence inspiring. This thrill is so great not even 100F temps here prevented me from dragging the wife in tow as support crew this weekend to ride haha. I would consider a second Mach 1 before there all gone, as a reference collectible and for our son to ride with me when he is on leave from Service. He currently acquired a voyager and that is what prompted me to give it a go once again. Blessings!
Bikes are getting harder and harder to enjoy outside of track use. Most of my friends have quit street riding after serious accidents. And here in Australia we have hidden speed cameras everywhere. We’ve got a CBR1000RR and its pointless to me because you can’t even hear the top of 1st gear without breaking the highest speed limit we have.
But we’ve got to get our thrills somehow. Eskate, and especially the Mach One for me is such a great way to get a rush and forget about all my problems while I’m on it.
And you don’t have to pay rego, insurance, worry about speeding fines, and cars are less of a problem or at least you have more options to avoid them.
And you can go 60 or 70kph to get the same adrenaline rush as on a bike going 200kph.
I’ve been riding eboards almost every day the suns shining for 5+ years and can’t see myself ever getting bored of this hobby.
There was a time long ago when we took responsibility for our own actions, nowadays we are watched over before we even take flight towards achieving anything. The powers that be cause anxiety even when trying hard to follow the rules, IMO. I basically only ever commute on the bikes anymore and never really getting beyond 3rd or 4th gear out of 6 available :). I would agree, The Mach One certainly makes for the same thrill with much less risk.
At the 1st Legend Race about a week ago a couple people had issues with BRP tires delaminating. One person had a nasty crash that took him out of the race.
I think pneumatic tires could get to the same level of performance as the BRP in time. Maybe the Supernova tires are the ones?
What about a solid rubber wheel design or a hybrid with some other material inside with rebound slowing properties?
Dylan said all it needs is a set of pneumatic wheels to be the perfect off-road board and I fully agree given how capable it is already (with a binding or two).
We will at some stage release an off-road hangar which provides wheel clearance for 8in pneumatic as it seems all the good off-road tires don’t come any smaller than 8in size even though I would have preferred 7in.
We could do a 150mm solid or foam core race wheel (so that they fit low ground clearance boards), but the racing scene is so small that we have to place our attention elsewhere for now. We can dabble in race parts and boards after we become a profitable company.