What kind of AT deck for my aggressive riding style?

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#1

How I ride: I like to fishtail corners and kick dirt riding down trails off-road. So I want a deck I can kick out. I’m leaning towards one of those snowboarding-looking decks but I’m not sure if that’s what I want. What do you guys think?

Right now I’m riding like this with my wowgo AT2 which I enjoy a lot. But the range is terrible (7-miles) so I need to upgrade. I mostly ride off-road Florida trails with little bumps/roots in the ground.

I also want the battery enclosure to be under the board.

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#2

haero bro?
eboosted has an enclosure coming out for it any day now

#4

Why? If you’re mostly offroad, surely you’d want it on top so you don’t run into anything.

I haven’t ridden a mountainboard yet but I have my Haero sitting in my garage waiting for me to build

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#5

eboosted is amazing. send him a pm on the forum and he usually gets back within the day and is super helpful

@eboosted

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#6

Well I live in Florida where everything is flat. The only thing I have to worry about are occasional roots which my wowgo AT2 is fully capable of going over now and that has a battery under. I just don’t like the way those look. I also dont want to be attached into my board.

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#7

Everyone seems to love Kaly.NYC boards maybe I should try to make a clone. Wish I knew where to start though lol.

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#8

Gotcha… I probably would still suggest the bro, but like I said I haven’t ridden any yet, this is just based on what I’ve heard

Kaly boards have a special deck and I don’t know if you can buy them

#9

The hero bro does look cool. But I’m afraid it would be too narrow in the middle to fit a nice big battery enclosure to the bottom. I want to build something with 20+ mile offroad range.

#10

The Haero Bro enclosure will hold 12s7p made with 21700, that should give you even more than 20 miles offroad

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#11

You can easily do that with the eboosted I’m sure. It’s fairly wide in the middle, I think you could fit 6 or 7 cells aross at least

I think his lead time is a little long rn though

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#12

Cool. So the two decks at the top of my list right now are
Haero Bro - 12s7p made with 21700
or
Kaly XL DS Combo from @eBoosted

As long as I can get 20+ miles off road id be happy with either one. The main factor would be rideability and ease of carving corners, kicking up dirt, maybe some off-road 180’s, or trying to do a donut in the dirt. That’s the type of stuff I like to do.

#13

Personally I see the Kaly as more of a street carver than an offroad deck. The bro is a real hardcore offroad one

I don’t recall there being a lot of clearance on kaly’s, what wheels you using?

#14

Well, I’m starting from ground zero right now lol. First step I thought was to pick a deck then find parts after that.
For the wheels I’d have to ask everyones opinion. I heard good things about the trampa wheels.

Thanks for the info. It’s helping about because im at a stage where I don’t know which parts would be best for my riding style.

#15

For more affordable wheels I’d look at MBS, their wheels are used really frequently. Trampa has good stuff too though

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#16

are you sure
my 12s8p p42a on road gets me 25 miles (4wd on stretched tires) i would have thought offroad the efficiency would have been even worse

#17

my wowgo at2 which has 10s4p battery has a advertised range of 20 miles but I get 5 miles before having to turn around because im at almost 50%

I just dont want this same thing happening again. Advertised range and actual range are so drastically different for me. I can imagine that’s because I ride aggressively off road.

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#18

4wd uses more power bro

I am building a 12s7p for offroad and am expecting 20-25 miles

You also don’t ride as fast offroad

@Taraskasyanyuk Did you finish your bro build yet? How much range you getting

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#19

ah ok
just thought offroad would outweigh 4wd

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#20

Circumstances are everything, it’s nearly impossible to say. You riding 25+ would probably use more power than cruising at 15-20 offroad with the occasional hill.

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#21

I have not, I’ve been waiting for them apex airs. Have had everything else since February! Haha. Although I did switch the battery. I’m doing 2 12s4p p42as to save weight. I’ll be doing a quick swap when one is out. Expecting 25-30 miles with both hopefully.

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