Smallest build challenge inspired me to take a swing at bringing back to life my most favourite board ever - Lou.
As you can see I had the board running in 1Wd configuration with Board dynamics gear drive and truck system. I had a single Makers vesc running it from a 10s2P battery with no BMS.
Functionality wise It would be stupid to reduce this set up even more, but I also just bought the MK 1 Pro, so I can alow myself to have the Lou as a novelty item, but a working one
So I wanna drop some weight from it. I am probably keeping the 10s2p, but would like to change my transmission.
Gear drive to a plastic pulley and a belt.
BN truck to a more narrow one and the Paris truck to the Alu one.
The wheels I had are crazy heavy, not sure on size / style for now.
So I have a few questions:
The lightest motor mount is the carbon one from exertion? That is unabtotinium?
What’s the second lightest?
Thought of going single hub, but probably no single hub actually worth it?
Should I go for an even smaller motor and just gear it crazy high?
For reducing weight your primary concern should be the weight of the wheels, as there’s 4 of them and they are probably the heaviest part to begin with. I suggest looking into either some ~80mm LDP wheels or Ahmyo Akasha wheels (76mm, kegel core, and suprisingly good comfort with similar or perhaps just a tiny bit better grip to orange orangatangs)
