Hi guys,
I have just found out about this board on Kickstarter. It does not look bad at all to me (but I’m no expert) and it sure looks cheaper or at least similarly expensive to a board I could build myself (I’m from Europe and I’ve found that components tend to cost a lot more here).
Hey guys this is my current compilation of information regarding the Backfire II, nothing special just thought I would share what I have found for this budget board.
Current reviews
Apparently the units for sale on alibaba are sample unit which contains no water potting sealant, wheels which are the wrong tolerance because they are from the first 1000 batch and a whole host of other potential issues with battery life, I cannot confirm this but I would stick to buying them from backfire
This reddit discussion has some info in it if you are looking for more context
Anyways I’ll update this in the future, give me your thoughts of what you think.
This is not true after talking with them and getting certificate sent to me they wrote this.
“HUNANNI FUN was our distributor before,but recently Their operation was cancelled
So they got angry and make some lie.
We are the only one who hold the BACKFIRE brand
We design ,we produce,we sell
www.backfireboards.com”
Apparently they’re going on Indiegogo for the same price ($ 399) next week. I kind of regret buying the components to build my own electric longboard now, because I feel I could have got a better board for cheaper
Building my board is surely a lot of fun and I’m learning a lot, but it’s a bit disappointing to see that I’m spending more money for a single motor with approximately 18km range, when I could have got a dual motor, waterproof esk8 with apparently more range for cheaper
Busted up knee, tendon broke… In hospital for a few days until they can operate because on braking down a hill it cut out and he lost all control… No brakes at all!
Thanks for linking that, although one isolated case cannot really tell much. From my understanding, the board cut off the brakes as soon as the battery reached 100% from regenerative breaking. Is that something that may happen to vescs as well? It may be good to keep it in mind when going down hill
Depends on the BMS. Bypassing discharge would prevent that issue but can overcharge your batteries. Though that shouldn’t be much of an issue given how little we regen.
