Looks very good. Do you know if this D30 material is self-recovering after an impact? I remember some sk8 kneepads (it was like this material but maybe different) where the material was damaged after an hard impact and needed to be replaced (it remained in hardened shape)
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I’ve watched a couple of videos now it’s resting state is liquid - it hardens on impact and then solidifies again. So should go forever!
I’ve been burnt by a similar slim form factor technolgy though as I bought a whole set of these:
Elbows and knees too and they’re bloody useless. First fall I had and both knee pads ripped from the padding and a bruised both my kness!! That was on a trip out when my mountainboard hadn’t been electrified yet.
These look much sturdier though, plus it’s the way the tailbone protection goes up above the waistband that I think will make all the difference.
I guess we’ll see!
D30 is insane 
next setup protection will be like that for sure ! thanks for your link when I see this Impact Shorts vs my Decathon skate one … its like if I wear 10 layers of clothing to protect my ass 
Also, if you buy a new helmet, go with MIPS technologie 
I see what you mean, The protections must be as adjusted as possible, otherwise it has more friction during the falls and burns after. The Gform guard are very populare in longboard. It made me think that we my need something like that + a hard shell on top !
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Nice! I’ll have to watch out for this products, too. Kevlar clothes padded with D30 would be ultimate.
Exactly this G-Form pads I meant!
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Fuk those jumps. I suck at eMTB’ing and I am jealous 
Long way to learn!
So I built myself a kick ass kicker tonight:
But am regretting my choice of 12mm structural ply for the face - that bitch don’t bend!! Found a good use for the 2000+ Enertion wheel pulleys though!!
Hoping it’ll be more curvy in a couple of days otherwise I’ll be heading back to the DIY store for some 7mm! 
Was hoping to shred it tomorrow too 
Oh well that’s another couple of days you’ll have to wait for some fat airs!!
My ambition for this kicker:
First electric mountainboarder to nail a 360 over a BBQ in the park! 
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Can’t wait to see the video 
I like how you are pushing proper jumps for E-MTBs, i might even try that too one day 
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Thanks man 
I really see this as a snowboard for grass and dirt so I’m gonna try and transition all the stuff I know from that sport and wakeboarding. The beauty of this is I don’t need a mountain or wake!! Maybe it’s not a mountainboard come to think of it. Maybe electric all terrain board is this most apt name - eATB…
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You’re opening pandoras box again 
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Come on Dan, cut some 5mm deep slits into the Plywood and it will bend with ease. Some water will also help.
Frank
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Awesome !! Yes we want this to bend too now you tease us with this 
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How tall is it ?
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Haha! Loving it Frank - no problems, only solutions
…but alas I want a smooth take off and my wet and cut skills will likely make it lumpy so I just bought a new bit!
I’ll be out on it at the weekend. Vid to follow!
It’s only small - but should have some good pop. It measures 420mm tall, 1150mm long and 800mm wide. I wanted something portable that I could ride and carry between spots.
I’m mainly going to set it up to land on a downslope to maximise airtime 
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Hahahaha, yeah I just can’t leave that alone
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an esk8rs worst nightmare.
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Yeah - totally my fault too. FOCBOX had moved out of my lovely new dual CNC case whilst i was trying to get the remote to sync and the DRV must have touched the casing. ZaaapppPPP! 
Lesson learnt.
Gonna have to invest in a hot air station and some spare chips so I can learn to fix these fuckups. So far I’ve killed both canbus trancievers and broken off one mini usb port so they’re due a repair anyways.
Oh well…in the meantime it looks like I’ll be canabilising my esk8 for it’s FOCBOX! I’m hitting this kicker this weekend no matter what!
P.s. if anyone has any links to hand for those chips (DRV, Canbus) and USB ports I’d be super grateful. Oh, and recommendations on a well priced hot air station would also be gratefully received. I’ll reward you with crazy jumps on my new kicker!
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I have one of these bro, and a hexagonal crimper with die sets that change for wire guage… for splicing and ring terminals on my back bone, heavy guage stuff.
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Jeez that’s a good price! And it works well? You’ll have to go easy on me bro - I’m totally new to microprocessing! What’s a crimper, splicing ring terminals and back bone? You may as well be speaking in Japanese 
the soldering iron is a 70w iron, you can do 8 awg with really good technique but it starts to get tricky. this might be controversial to the die hard solder freaks so some (with zero actual crimp experience) will disagree. I tend to over engineer stuff. example I have never cooked a esc. i don’t use xt90’s, as150’s and above… 8 awg or 6 awg once my battery wires come together until it divides again for the esc’s (the backbone). These conections i crimp. sparkys in real life don’t solder any high current conections in australia they crimp them. crimping is more reliable (soldering does not meet code) and can create a cold welded joint capable of carrying higer current with less resistance (copper has less resistance than solder and zero chance of cold soldered joints).
one day i’ll do a vid or take some pictures of me lifting my weights off the floor with some crimped wire but generally i can’t be effed. a pull test defines the grade of a gas tight crimped joint, they are not designed to have weight hanging off them in use but it tests their quality.
example: http://www.mecmesin.com/crimp-pull-off-tests
and a ring terminal just allows you to bolt on a connection with a ring…
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