The trick to avoiding speed wobbles, aside from tight trucks, is to keep your weight forward. What I’ve found to work for me, considering you can’t really get into a tuck like you would on a longboard, when you’re strapped into bindings, is to push down and back with my rear foot (if that makes sense). Sounds counterintuitive, but this helps me center my weight over my front foot. Also works well for the jolt during take off.
@benjammin Yep, I keep finding myself with more weight on my back foot. Its easier when snowboarding to keep weight on my front foot as that’s the one going down. I guess practice practice practice is the only option. Thanks for the tip though, I’ll give it a go when I next get to ride.
I expect to get somewhere around 33mph. FWIU, general rule of thumb with these is somewhere around 1km/Ah. This is about right on with my 8s build. I get close to 7miles to 10Ah. Not sure if this will change with 12s or not.
Filled up the first Roxxy today with epoxi, have to wait 48h now… hope to get it out of the cast again …
With the epoxi mod you loose all waranty claims !
I would advise to add an capacity bank like the “YGE 9 Caps” , this can only help with long battery wires and will not influence the warranty.
Also i advise to use some shock absorbing piece by mounting the ESC.
You can do like a “sandwich” for Example : 2 pieces carbon fibe plate, between some foam rubber, glued together. Now you can screw the lower plate to the deck and using some double sided tape to fix the ESC to upper plate… Hope you know what i mean
Belt drive’s smooth as butter compared to chain, and the 6s batteries are nice and easy for beginners. Really looking forward to getting the 12s setup going
IMO, the Matrix2 trucks are the way to go. They’re lighter than Trampas, capable of a much larger range of motion and the adjustment screws are on the bottom so the speed controllers don’t get in the way. Can’t speak for the Flames though. Those things look pretty sick.
Haven’t really done anything with the 12s build for a minute. Got a 12s7p on the way from barajabali though. Run time should be pretty awesome I hope, plus the battery wires will end up shorter this way (trying to avoid using caps).
Thanks man, yeah these MBS trucks are the shit. I swapped out the bushings though in my other board, the one with Trampa trucks, and it actually turns now Think I must’ve messed one of 'em up when I was first putting it together. Turns like a champ now though. Was just out for a night ride Trying to get it in before the rain hits again.
The matrix trucks have been cool though for when people ride in 6s, it’s easy to switch to yellow shockblocks to loosen up the steering for slower riders. And, if anyone’s crazy enough to hit a rail on one of these things, they have an even grind surface too
Love the beltdrive Matrix trucks are a little shorter than Trampa though, so I’m gonna have to mount the ESCs in a different configuration so they don’t rub.