Don’t you find riding an ev with 70mm wheels kinda scary?
83mm wheels are capable to ride over some obstacles, but nothing significant. 70mm are 20% even worser if you look at the curvature.
83s with spokes weight roughly 25% more than 70s without them, so that is the price that you pay for it.
Moreover, these 25 percents result only in 170g which I wish to carry with me to save me from falling.
Any shortboard/small builds, i’d go with Caguamas, Kegels minimum
Lol please don’t do this.
This reminds me of those crazy bikers that religiously weigh every single hair on their bike to shave weight
I would beter optimize the deck’s weight.
Currently my idea is creating a plywood frame that work only as thickness riser and frame for the fiberglass to atttach to. And it’s litterly gonna be a ‘frame’, coz more than the half of the material would be removed from it. Why I want to increase thickness, you may ask. Well, according to the theory of strength of materials, curvature is counter-proportianal to the inertia momentum, which for the rectangular rod is proportional to the thickness qubed. Double the thickness and curvature drops 8 times… This property gives me an abillity to use just a few layers of fiberglass over the frame, so deck literraly can weight 2 pounds.
That is my concept, will post pics soon.
While I was designing deck’s shape, I’ve realized that my board is almost a replica of the Arc Aileron v2.0. Same weight, same motor size, same phylosophy, actually. So, I’ve decided, that I want to name it like the part of the wing, bc technology of making the deck is almost the same as planes’ fuselage. And… Bingo!
The Wingtip
Not only it is as small as the wingtip, but also it is going to be painted in black with bright orange details like the wingtips painted in bright colors:
Pretty nice, imo
@KaramQ I wanna try this out sometime when we hang out, methinks a mini build lies in my future somewhere. They look fun
Mine is fun, slow, can barely do hills lol. It’s the perfect grocery commuter tho
The theory is right.
Then again plywood is not light. For better utilization of thickness use foam.
Either way don’t forget about localized stresses/buckling with too thin layer.
Dani
this has 18 18650s in it. 10 pounds or less is totally possible, might be able to get two more cells if some other weight was shaved somehow.
rona roller: 9S4P single drive on an LY Dinghy with a spark load on the tail and a really heavy enclosure.
just over 16 pounds.
weight for fairly normalized lightweight esk8 pneumatic build reference: my daily rider i just rode through freshly ground up streets after a rain:
Just to be pedantic, that’s a picture of a split scimitar winglet on a 737. Not a normal wingtip
Coincidentally winglet is a great choice for this project as winglets like the one in the photo are predominantly used by short haul airliners as they improve climb performance at the expense of induced drag. This trade off is only worth it for the really short routes. And that’s why larger airliners use raked wingtips.
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OOof I really like the look of those clever tires on the bergs
Been busy this week, so wanna share some thoughts.
Currently watching videos about stm32 programming, bc I wanna move further then good old avr thingies. So yeah, the brains and remote of the wingtip will be stm32-based. The data transmission will be organized on the HC-12 modules, that work flawlessly for me for a long time with no issues.
The antispark and receiver are going to be on the same PCB, which connects directly to the rear of the VESC. This design leads to a good space-management, very clean look and the wires floating around minimized.
Right about 15.5lbs
Could you make like a balsa or foam mount, and then just skin it in CF?
That seems like it might be a pretty easy DIY.
It does look awesome.
Do a kick flip.
Are those the ride unlimited hub wheels?
Do they sell them separately?
