220 is only if you can, there is plenty of 110 and you will get priority on 110
Some places may only have 110. The idea is if we have a lot of numbers and we max out 110 charge spots. Anybody running 220 can go hit an EV charger and get charged up
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If nobody else is gonna say anything I will,
CARVE WAS SO MUCH FUN!!!
We took a ferry
Rode around a pretty island (Bainbridge)
Broke some stuff
Pulled 18kw from black lodge trying to charge everything at once (wouldn’t have been possible without @Pecos installing an extra 12kw the day prior)
Cut it close on range
Killed some tires
But more than anything else we rode!
I tallied up 180 miles in 4 days!
Awesome weekend, huge thanks to @Yeahthatperson and the whole PNWesk8 crew for putting this on!!
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Abso-fuckigg-lutely! This event was a blast, even if my feet are very angry with me 
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Absolute BLAST. Sad it had to come to an end.
Hats off to the organizers, it was a hell of a well-run event.
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It was an absolute blast and I had the best time with all of you guys! The routes around Seattle were super cool and everything was organized very well. I’m glad I got to meet so many people I knew online but didn’t have faces to put to names. Love you guys. 
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Event was a blast. I brought some of my friends with boosted and evolve boards. They wanna get into DIY now after this event 
One of the boosted guy picked up a souvenir:
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I want to explain my new forum title, because the joke was way too funny to not share.
This weekend I was sitting with Ben T. (known in the Seattle community as “Fast Ben”), and Ben W. (known in the Seattle community as “Vegan Ben”). We were talking about how many different Bens there are at Carve, cus apparently besides the three of us there were like 3 or 4 others.
Then another local guy named Tony walked past our table, overheard a bit of our conversation, and said “Yeah, I know. There’s Fast Ben, Vegan Ben, and Has-Ben.” (pronounced like has-been)
I’m not even sure he knows I was laid off from Hoyt, which makes the whole situation even funnier. Dude just absolutely roasted my whole ass and didnt even know it 
Anyway, I’m glad to be a has-been in this awesome community 
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Diy is such a good rabbit hole, even if they don’t manage to get a board built for seacarve 2025 (taking a year on a build isn’t uncommon) they should attend regardless! The rides are dynamic and get adjusted based on skills and equipment (like the split at golden gardens which was a blast). All boards are welcome though range anxiety is real - Saturday i did all the rides including the secret (not secret) raph night ride and made it home with 1 mile left on my 80 mile range board after two charging sessions . Was such a good time
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They should come to build day!
Every other month the same awesome guys you met from PNWesk8 team up with the awesome Hattz and Pivo from black lodge to host an event where we can all meet up for a few hours to drink, eat, and build/fix some esk8 stuff. It’s always a great time and we’d all be happy to offer advice or help with anything y’all get stuck on. If you’d like I’d be happy to pm you once the next one is scheduled.
And you’d get to meet Pivo!
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it was great meeting everyone, especially pivo, can’t wait to see him again!
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[quote=“BGT-R, post:6, topic:82461”]
It would be awesome to fill up the ferry to Bainbridge Island this year with skateboards
[/quote] i think we did it @BGT-R !!!
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It was a great group of people - everyone was super friendly and supportive but unfortunately I was just too slow to keep up 
But the sweeps kept back with us stragglers and herded most of us back to the group. I ended up calling in the rescue squad to come pick me up because it was well after dark and I had no lights (bad planning on my part).
I do owe someone a taillight - it’s in my car, pm me with your address and I’ll send it to you.
Thanks @Yeahthatperson and all the other organizers!
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That’s really good feedback, maybe double leader the routes would work better than just one leader and tail to keep slower riders grouped and on the track.
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It’s s tough one, because I don’t want to drag you speedsters down or make you do extra work to encompass me, but I have to say I really did enjoy the run from MOHAI to West Seattle.
First thing I’d do is put in your messages in ALL CAPS, “Lights required for this ride!” on all rides that went after dark.
After that you should decide, as a group, whether you want to facilitate slow riders. If not, put in ALL CAPS, “Fast Riders Only - be comfortable at 20-25mph!!!”
I’m perfectly ok with being excluded. I used to drive a Prius, and one day I was just driving into a long curvy stretch of roads and 4 crotch rocket motorcycles rolled in behind me. I pulled to the side and let them pass and they were so happy they couldn’t stop waving on the way by. So I understand getting in the way of need for speed.
Again, everyone was great - I really appreciate the support.
It was interesting, because I was waiting for my rescue in the parking lot at Lincoln Park and I saw the whole group roll past again - possible that everyone doubled back?
My biggest concern, though, was that without lights and away from the group I would get hit by a car pulling on to the road. To that end I might strongly recommend that the group put all the lightless riders in the middle and surround them with lit (lighted?) riders. I wasn’t the only one without lights, but I was the only one who had a large gap between me and the bulk of the group.
lastly, If that particular ride had been mine I definitely would have arranged it to hit Alki before dark. Maybe even have a sunset/charge spot there somewhere.
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Alki is definitely fun before dark for the crowds. After dark for the views. So many good view spots hidden in Seattle. Little hill top parks and spots with some distance. Being such a big elevation change city and everything being closed in makes the long views hit different. Like when you get to the top of something prominent on the skyline and see how big it really is out there… issss nice 
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This is good feedback on the lights, will make sure to explicitly mention it in the info doc next year. I know this doesn’t help you now, but most of the pnwesk8 members carry spare lights
These two are detatchable and I lend them out as needed so if anyone finds themselves lacking, just ask ^_^, happy to lend gear.
On the speed portion, there are certain areas that require higher speeds due to the mixed car traffic. While planning the group tried to reduce these legs as much as possible; there were actually some really fun rides cut from the schedule specifically due to high speed requirements. The cross cut through bellevue was one that stayed because it is generally low traffic volume and it is needed to complete the i-90 route within the range requirements we set.
We certainly intend to not continuously do 20-25 mph or higher all the time. I know I was in the back of the pack doing slower than this most of the time. This said, and to your point, we didnt have enough leads for portions of the Saturday rides, considering we basically split into 3 platoons.
All the breakdowns and charging requirements made it a bit difficult to navigate, but we tried our best ^_^. We will certainly look to have more leads for the next event~ going into this we knew that was a bit of a difficency.
We only had an average of 4 leads for any given ride; 1 lead, 1 tail, and 2 floaters. Really need a minimum of 3 per platoon for efficiency, 2 at bare minimum. For most rides this was ok, but saturday did get a little messy for the reasons above. Every time a rider broke down in front of me, I peeled off the group and waited for them. Given the frequency of breakdowns we were often operating at 3 or 2 leads per group.
Thanks for turning out, and hopefully the event was mostly enjoyable for you ^3^ Also thanks for the comments, we will surely iterate upon them :3
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With saturday in particular, having groups down to a single ride lead at times. Luckily saturday was mostly straight shot bike trails, but not all, and thats where we were stretched a little too thin.
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Somebody actually offered to give me a flashlight (thank you!) But by then it was so dark that I knew if a car didn’t take me out a pothole would.
Next time I’d be happy to be the “worst case scenario” test for your lead/sweep strategy
Next time also I will have headlights and taillights (I have the lights, just didn’t get them installed after the latest rebuild) and I’ll wear knee and elbow protection. Which won’t make me go any faster, but I’ll look faster.
There is one thing that we’ve often done in bike trips, and that is the first few people to reach a stop point (IE the fastest) will loop back and pick up the slowest. That way they get extra riding in and get to be heroes.
But just to reiterate, you guys were all great.
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