Hello guys, this electric skateboard building addiction is getting out of hand so in order to be able to sleep at nights I decided I neeeded to make another e-board
I just finished today and I’m in love. I already had several boards an eMTB (The Pho3nix), a grab-mall board (The Biohazard) ,a brand board with hubs (Raptor 2), a fast board (The Darth Maul), so this one is the kicktail board (The Colateral) because “cola” means kicktail in spanish
I wanted a very fast board, with a deck which is stable at high speeds, shorter than the Raptor, comfortable to ride anywhere, not as heavy as 37" board and with a kicktail, so everything came down to this Colateral.
Now that I’ve just ridden it for the first time I know these are the next upgrades:
- Change the motor pullies from 15T to 18T, the speed was lame
- Upgrade my batteries from 10s4p to12s4p, need to finish the DS enclosure
- Paint the green border on the deck to black
- Change the color of the led power button switch to a blue
These is my current top speed calculation, not a good combination, I need more speed, at least 32MPH.
So after the upgrade I should be getting this:
Here are some pictures of the build process hope you guys like it, I went through so many issues, so this might help anyone looking for a kicktail board:
The first challenge was to look for 35" kicktail deck with acceptable wheelbase, nothing came close to the Moonshine Sidekick, so I placed the order on Muir:
Then, manufacture an enclosure that could hold a 10S4P battery, 2 Focboxes a BMS with room for wires:
However, when I test fitted the enclosure I ran into another issue, the motor mounts were too close to the ground and if I turned them towards the deck, they will hit the enclosure wire covers on full leans:
So I had to completely redesign the enclosure and moving it towards the nose, I’m happy I did that, the look is more sleek and there is no clearance issues anymore:
The battery was another challenge, I used this method to creat 1S4P safe packs:
I had to get creative and came up with these two 1S4Ps
Here is the final 10S4P battery:
I wanted the Boa Hatchlings pretty bad but they are still very difficult to get, so I was offered to upgrade to 100mm constrictors, nevertheless, this was a mistake, they were too big for this deck it, I didn’t like the look of them:
I already had the Biohazard with 85mm caguamas, they were a bit hard, not very comfortable to ride them on rough pavement, so as soon as I knew software Caguamas were out I jumped and placed the order directly from Orangatang, they gave me a much better look:
For this esk8 I wanted to have really nice trucks with some rake so I went with Surfrodz 176mm, the problem was fit them with motor mounts and keep hanger as short as possible, just enough to fit 2 6355 motors, so I had to addapt @torqueboards mounts and put the hangers in the lathe and use grub screws to hold them in place:
I always liked the look and convenience of having a switch on the top, I hate everytime I need to turn my Raptor upside down just to turn on/off the board off, soil my hands, so I placed the switch on the nose just over thw center of the baseplate:
I ran the wires through the deck and the Riptide tunnel risers:
So after everything was installed, I regripped the deck with Vicious, best griptape ever:
Some pictures of the board:
I’ll update the progress as I go forward with the project.
Thanks for taking a look