Very few eskate manufacturers actually care enough to refine throttle feel. They just run with what the software dev came up with behind a desk.
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@Tony_Stark do you guys still have any of those BN M1 adapter for the SR125?
We do, though they were made out of spec with the pins a fraction too large, so you need to drill out the 5.6mm holes on the wheel to 6mm for them to work.
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It appears the Mach One is sold out:frowning: the most exotic E skate of them all. Those last lucky new owners are in for the most unique experience in high performance. Congrats! Boy, looking forward to see what magic sled comes next. Really happy to eskate progress to this level from the early days of mounting a weed wacker motor to the back of a surf skate 
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Oops I may have mistaken, just reloaded the page it looks to be still available, apologies. The faster version is sold out. I have a couple of contacts I will remind if they still looking to commit😄
Yeah, there are three left in our China warehouse (#02, #69 and #75), one in America (#100), and one at Twelve Board Store in Australia (#50). We tried to save some good numbers for last.
The next model we release will be dialed down with less power and no torque vectoring, and come in at a more affordable price. The jury is still out on whether we do a board designed to out-do the Mach One.
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Ooooh! I might have to pick up 69!
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Responding to old post, BMW Streetcarver - I actually have one of these, not kidding.
. Wish the Mach One was out back then, I wouldn’t have spent 450 or so on that:pensive_face: Inflation unadjusted.
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Slap a Mach One sticker on it to incite some of that “customer confusion” BMW was worried about.
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Artem has been posting videos on the Mach One for a while in Russian, but I decided to translate his review with AI dubbing in his own voice. The dubbing isn’t perfect but I think it’s the best review on the board so far.
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I had my Mach One hand delivered (lucky one person on the team is local here in the US) no wooden crates, lol but the unboxing and just production presentation was impressive. My first thought was this is a lot of attention, and we’re just at the box.
Another question I’ve been wondering about: many of the Radium videos follow rides across dirt trails, and it’s been mentioned a few times that the roads in Australia aren’t great. How has the feedback been on riding the SR125s compared to using larger air filled tires?
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The feedback has been pretty good. Most people underestimate the grip and confidence the SR125 provide until they actually try them.
Some people enjoyed them but wanted a bit more comfort, and dropping down to the medium compound was enough for them.
There have been a few riders that have crappy roads or do a lot of off-road and want to try pneumatics. The compliance of an air filled tire is hard to beat for bad surfaces.
My personal preference is always the SR125s because they don’t have the springiness of air that makes pneumatics tend to bounce over bumps. They just feel stuck to the road and the board sits lower and rides better. And for off-road I love sliding which the SR125 are perfect for. Can’t slide the same with pneumatics.
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If I may just add this.. the contact patch of the SR125 is so much more steady when you hit loose sand or gravel. Regular pneumatic with the 50mm can be well drifty but on the 125’s, you get the extra time to get onto the back foot and ‘float’ through it.
I was thinking this through on the ride in today, there are several spots where there is some gnarly spots that pneumatic wouldn’t even notice (think horizontal uneven cracks) that you need to address on the radium rubber but that’s about the only drawback I’ve found in a couple of years using them. They even perform in the wet astonishingly well. 
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Had to take a break from staring at the screen. Happy (soaking in sweat) snaps from a quick ride around the neighborhood. You can go virtually anywhere on this setup if the surface is dry, and not too loose (bogged in the last pic).
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I thought you were kidding about the rough roads out there but cobblestone, yikes!
Any details about that bumper/handle, will it go on the store someday?
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The roads are pretty good in my area, but this is an example of an unsealed surface that is not pleasant on the hard SR125s. It feels icey at maybe 30kph.
I also recently learned that in Melbourne we use recycled rubber in our tarmac, making it especially grippy compared to even other cities in Australia. In Perth I found the roads felt noticeably less grippy even though they were perfectly smooth.
Adrian was saying when downhill skaters visit Melbourne they are shocked at how grippy the tarmac is here.
Another interesting thing coming back to Melbourne after riding in Vegas and San Fran is I need to run harder bushings here because the roads aren’t as flat and have kindof waves through them that send the board all over the joint. That’s also why I chose not to use spherical bearings in the R6 trucks as I wanted them to absorb bumps instead of being taken for a ride by our wavy roads.
Even when testing lower ride heights I noticed that it gives the road surface more control over the trucks and creates a weaker centre feel. There are many concious decisions that make the Mach One designed for the roads here and not for track performance.
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In production now and will be available in March. It’s awesome for shop runs, I can tow the board with two fingers.
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Couldn’t let u have all the fun man so I picked up subway cold cuts for dinner on my beloved Mach 1:grin:
When I worked in SF, I would see some people riding by on the old Boosted boards, thinking it was pretty fun, but the streets just have too much going on. Split between tracks, cobblestone, steel plates, and endless pothole repairs, it’s a challenging environment to say the least.