what about putting a hydrophobic coating on the bottom of your board to make it more mud/dirt resistant and it will make it way easier to clean too.
Plus it might help make it water resistant.
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Just have a roll of paper on the bottom like a hospital bed.
After every run, tear off and ride with a fresh sheet.
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the upside to making the board hydrophobic is it will be clean will you are riding which will give you better range( very very slight) due to the better aerodynamics.
One of my friends has done this on their exway atlas and it does make it much easier to clean off dirt and mud, though if you ever get gravel that would leave a mark on an uncoated deck, that coat won’t do jack sh*t against damage of those scales, which by that point would ruin the water resistance the coating provides as well. Esk8s aren’t yachts, you WILL get your board scratched up, weathered and cosmetically damaged almost guaranteed (unless you ride indoors for some reason).
As for aero, if you dig around the forum on that topic (even in this thread), you’ll find that we’ve reached a conclusion though testing and experiments that anything aero-related mostly has to do with our own fatasses and even those differences doesn’t become noticeable until like 40km/h plus. You’ll find the coating maybe a hair better for your range, so what’s 0.01% of 20km? That’s right, you get 2 metres of extra range. Congratulations.
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They do sell hydrophobic films specifically for eskates, but IMO there’s not really a point to it and it’s pretty expensive, as I’ve never gotten any damage on the bottom of any of my boards from normal riding, even my analog boards that are quite low to the ground.
I’ve never had a board that didn’t just wipe or spray down easily but if I did…
Ceramic wax coat it and call it a day.
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Send me that foot pic babe
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Here’s a weird idea that was posed to me the other day;
How bout wearing shoes while lead throttling an unproven build?
Haha, yeah whatever.
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Mmmm feet meat
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What about a motor mount that contains a sealed planetary gearbox or regular spur gear reduction built in? It’ll be thicker, but it’ll basically allow for a two stage reduction without you having to actually treat it as a two stage. You still can use regular pulleys, and with the reduction you can opt for bigger motor pulleys or smaller wheel pulleys and not run into issues with teeth engagement or hard to find sizes.
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What about fitting a bike derailleur to a skateboard chain drive
This could work well with an inrunner for sure
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Wasn’t even thinking of inrunners, was more of a short reduction like 2:1 which could allow for a small but meaningful change in gearing for regular motors. For example 190kv on 20S could be doable if you don’t want super high max speeds, or a >6:1 effective ratio on pneumatics without worrying about belt skip from a tiny motor pulley or rocks denting the large wheel pulley.
Hm yeah true, interesting. I wonder if there are any planetary gears strong enough for our impact loading, seems like Ecomobl has some decent ish ones going
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Maybe not planetary, but if it’s a simple spur gear I imagine you could use some high modulus gears without any huge issues, especially if the ratio is less than 2 so the gears are roughly the same size. The axles could even be supported on both sides of the motor mount for added strength and stability, as I would envision it as a fixed ratio, non-user adjustable gearbox so backlash and stuff are already set.
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Found this going through some of my fusion files.
Don’t remember what I was trying to explore with this, but it is weird so I thought it might be fun to share.
The file name was bushing rotation.
Looks like a 3 link style-ish, with two pivot cups. Maybe there’s supposed to be joints through the axle as well but I just didn’t model it.
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plus you can run a second one of those on top as bull bars!!
Really hard to tell without at least printing a model if it would be fully constrained well and wouldn’t have slop.
Also still guessing but it seems like the pivot cups would need to be shallow to let the pivot point different directions, then maybe could pop out under stress.
I think the stress on the pivot cups alone would make it unviable.
That’s such a huge leverage ratio.
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