Gauging interest in our members around Seattle and Tacoma to do off road trail rides and maybe set up an event or fill me in on what I’m already missing!
I even just made a FB account to check with the PNW Esk8 Collective if anyone is interested.
I want to know if anyone already regularly goes anywhere besides local paved bike trails (green river, soos creek etc.) and SNR.
Thinking local mountain bike trails…Black Diamond Open Space (never been) or Green River Natural Resource Area (only walked parts of it) myself.
Green River Natural Resource Area is a King County Park that has a few miles of rocky/dirt trail a few creek crossings there’s also a very smooth gravel road up the middle. Riders would just need to be polite and yeild to pedestrians and horse riders.
I’ll keep an eye on the weather and post here/ telegram chat when it looks good to schedule. We should be getting some nice spring weather on a weekend soon.
Live in Tacoma and after paying someone to make me a an upgraded battery for my old carbon evolve board it seems the bms might have went bad. After some research it look like best route is to buy aftermarket vesc? Anybody out there that can help a noob and point in the right directed which one would be best for the carbon evolve board so I can get back to riding again?
About your question though the primary concerns are 1: finding something that’s the right size and 12S capable, the stormcore 60D+ is a good option but may have issues fitting in the enclosure. makerX DV6 is similar in size but a bit cheaper with fewer features.
2: you still need a BMS. Your vesc can handle low voltage cutoffs and ensure that you don’t over discharge your battery but without a BMS you’ll have no way of balancing the cells during charging. There are a ton of local people as well as people on this forum and locally who can swap out your BMS. It’s important to have a BMS
Also if you talk to @Yeahthatperson or @bboybowzer they’re both super invested in the local community and have tons of connections.
Yeah, I would agree 100% with everything @bboybowzer said. Personally, I wouldn’t have my enemy use a Flipsky so I say zenith/unity. I think you’re also need a new remote so you should get a Hoyt puck
Thanks for the info. Had someone online make me an aftermarket battery (10s5p) and put my stock bms on it so i could just put it back in my board with a small spacer. Worked a few times then stopped working. Want to get it back up an running but don’t have any experience building boards. Im assuming I just need those items you were just talking about? Do you think it’s straightforward enough for me to install them or do you think i should get some help. Which reminds me, do you know of anyone that builds these boards nearby?
As far as I’m aware there’s nobody local building boards for hire/as a service. We do however, have “build day” pretty regularly (I think once a month) which is a great opportunity to learn how to work on your own stuff since there are people who can tell you how not to blow stuff up.
If there’s something you’re not comfortable with, generally somebody from the group is willing to lend a hand.
so I say zenith/unity. I think you’re also need a new remote so you should get a Hoyt puck