I’ve spent a lot of hours on both Urethane and Pneumatic skateboards. My first Longboard was a Comet that my friend George sold me about 5 years ago with a set of large & soft Urethane wheels. I would keep it in my car and then kick it around town for several years. One of my…
I’ve traveled the world and whitewater kayaked off 40′ waterfalls, run hard class 5 rapids backwards on purpose and jump 40 feet in the air regularly when kiteboarding. I can say with some certainty that it takes a lot to really scare me. After 30 minutes on the Lunacycle custom 96v AWD dual Adaptto controller…
This article was originally published on electricbike-blog.com here, but it really belongs on this blog instead. Although the Apocalypse scooter is currently out of stock, there is a bunch of them on the water on the way to America, so if you sign up to get a notification when they get back into stock I’m…
It seems like everyone I know is buying electric skateboards and One-wheels lately (except me because I’m too cheap). I’ve been going out of my way to extensively test every unit I can get my paws on. I was down kiting in North Carolina for 10 days when I came across a Yuneec E-Go that…
It seems like nowadays anyone can come up with an invention that has any number of wheels or flying capabilities and call it a hoverboard. What does a real hoverboard look like and is there anything out there today that even comes close? I have to admit, I’m more than a little miffed at all…
The biggest thing in electric skateboards for 2016 is in-hub motors. There are several new crowdfunded eSkateboards that are coming down the pike with these new motors. This article will discuss the benefits and drawbacks of skateboard hub motors and try to predict what the future will hold for the industry.
When I first started this blog I was most interested in getting a Self-Balancing Unicycle and beating the crap out of it on singletrack trails. I had Mountain Unicycled for about 3 years pretty obsessively until my knees started to give out from decent and dismount stress. When I was first doing research to find…
I didn’t skateboard that much in high school (I wasn’t that cool) although a lot of my friends did skateboard all the time. As I grew older I found myself involved in a lot of ‘extreme’ sports but I never really got into longboarding. About 3 years ago I broke down and bought a Comet…
John Madden has set up a crowdfunding site looking to sell an eskateboard for the whopping low, low price of $299 + $50 shipping right here. Ironic that the name he picked for his eskateboard ‘Storm’ is the same name that Ivars Sondors originally picked for his insane crowdfunded electric fat bike campaigns that ended up raking…
This post was originally created on our evil twin sister site electricbike-blog.com but seemed very relevant to the current exploding hoverboard crisis. Ever since my cheap ebay charger blew up three weeks ago I’ve been literally losing sleep over my fear that something else bad will happen. There are a lot of sub-optimal places in…
It seems like almost every day a new article is hitting the national news media regarding hoverboards, and the news is not good. Amazon pulled Hoverboards off their website in the middle of last December, but a few days ago they were at it again. Without any fanfare, Amazon quietly pulled all hoverboards from their online…
This article was originally posted August of 2015 on electric-fatbike.com before the Self Balancing Unicycle\hoverboard explosion. It was the article that inspired me to start this site 6 months later. Better late than never. About 9 years ago a video was sent to me that blew me out of the water. It was the Kris…
