@Blasto is on another level as a builder guys like me look up to him.
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No doubt.
Do you have pictures of your hybrid board? What about ground clearance as you shrink wheels diameter moving from inflatable to Thane.
Love or hate Evolve, their new QA and stress-testing process looks damn impressive. I doubt any manufacturers other than Boosted come close.
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Yeah man, we’re all whining here but the honest truth is that if anyone new comes along and cant be bothered to build a board themselves with budget of around 2k I would send them straight to this now.
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From what i can see all Evolve have done is to ‘catch up’ with a standard DIY build, and bring the proven tech to the masses. Same as Apple and their phones. This forum is a awash with builds that wipe the floor with the GTR, on many levels.
Low hanging fruit and all that.
That said, it’s a definite improvement and that has to be welcomed.
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The Metroboard-X will murder this new Evolve. And I can say that as fact, without having either board personally.
If you want to fanboi something, at least pick the better one.
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I got literally caught in the manufacturing process shown there, that’s super interesting.
Where does he gets his wheels btw? That guy seriously have loads of inline skating wheels on his desk.
Edit : Skipped a frame. AEND industries is the maker.
Well fuck me Evolve has Matter wheels, I usually hate hard on the brand but I must admit these are nice wheels they got.
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They’ve made leaps here, no doubt about it. Forging, wheels, 18650’s and best of all their supply chain is solid AF.
It’s still only half as good as the board I built in my kitchen with two kids hanging off my legs on a similar budget. The idea that you would compare this POS to my precision board is insulting at the very least.
You are so caught up in the Evolve marketing hype train its embarrassing.
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Alright guys i know your heated but if hes a troll you are just feeding him.
Wonder how that vendor bashing rule has not been applied to these threads about evolve lol
people just shit on them for the last 3 days lol
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Rofl, Fred is certainly no troll - he is just a novice without a board (yet) so please be gentle guys! 
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Fair enough but it’s easier to producing 1 or 2 really high quality boards (like the many examples on this forum) compared to producing literally 1000s, while maintaining the same consistently high quality. Elon Musk said that when ramping up Tesla production. Manufacturing at scale is really hard.
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This is the issue though bud. The quality has never been good, even in the slightest.
If they do it with this board then that’s bucking a really shitty Evolve trend.
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There’s no way any of their previous boards when through such a rigorous QA and stress-testing process. 120h on that vibration machine is insane and would kill 99% of DIY boards, including both of mine.
Looks like they might have actually learnt from their mistakes.
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All I have to add about evolve being shitty is, that’s not the experience I’ve had with them. Bamboo gtx was my first board, I added some straps to it and it kicked ass. The range was only 10-12miles with how i ride on at’s, but it was a kick ass first board. I abused the shit out of it jumping off 4steps and such. It did have an issue when i first bought it, sometimes one motor wouldn’t spin durring hard acceleration making it feel like the board was trying to apply breaks with one motor (it was just drag). They fixed and returned it same day. Never happened again. Later I threw in a 10s4p and its still kicking ass now. Im prepping it to be my wife’s board. Do I live my diy’s more than evolve? Hands down, but the gtx was and still is a good board for me.
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My favorite part is the solution to the voltage sag… the controller just ignores it and shows an estimated remaining capacity. So the board still has massive voltage sag but the display wont show it. 
The vibration machine was cute, nothing like what a boards will see in actual use. Looked like a really gentle ossilation compared to the bone rattling vibration a board actually sees on a rough road.
Oh look, they coat their pcb’s now, maybe they will start cleaning them in an ultrasonic bath on the next iteration and claim another first in eskate. 
Still seems like a big improvement over their last board but it wont win any races with a little 10s4p battery. Pre-builts are always going to be a tough sell with the builders.
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