This thing looks absolutely ridiculous, as if it was designed by someone who has never ridden (or perhaps even seen) a skateboard.
Pretty much on brand for a Yanko Design shitpost though!
for the hype beasts
I'm sure there's a market for electric skateboards as art pieces rather than as transport or for fun. Do I think the market is huge? Def no lol
I can't get over the severe protrusions that means this thing will run aground on almost any surface protrusions. It's like those motorized shoes we saw a while back, where they built it and later found the one use-case it was good for: warehouses, which have very smooth floors.
Hey, my skateboard, now hanging on my wall, totally enhances my middle-aged-man home office, and establishes my credentials as a still-hip young-at-heart, totally not emotionally-dead middle-management-drone!
I've actually ridden it within the past year, but (a) I am absolutely certain I look ridiculous on it, and (b) I'm sincerely concerned that I'll hurt myself: old people break more easily, and heal more slowly.
I have several old boards I am afraid to ride at this point including an offroad board I picked up off craigslist. I even have a broken StreetCarver someone gave me (Ill fix it eventually, definitely). Getting old and fat sucks.
That thing looks wild!
Getting old definitely sucks, my busted arm is still healing from a crash over a year ago.
Still, it beats the alternative.
I can't work out how this thing operates as a skateboard. How the fuck do you turn without bottoming the rail things out every time? take silly wide shallow turns?
how the fuck do you write this much about a design when it obviously doesn't work as the thing it's intended to be?
I can't work out how this thing operates as a skateboard.
That's the neat part: It doesn't!
rofls
It turns the wheels, based on this image. It's not a skateboard, it's an rc car you stand on top of.
And if you look at that image for more than a second, you'll see that it's just car parts scaled down to a scale that wouldn't be physically possible. That brace caliper assembly is the size of a thumbnail.
TYVM, didn't see that ridiculous tiny brembo dear lord what a strange thing
Even if that system could work reliably, it would handle worse than a normal skateboard and those weird... I don't know, fenders I guess? Whatever they are, they'd pose a serious hazard for catching on debris.
and curbs, and cracks, and leaves and god knows what else... designed to fling the rider violently away from the deck
I can see a secondhand market for those pieces of shit with at least one superfluous fender thing busted off. I grow weary of all the battery powered outdoor exercise toys everyone has these days. Take exercise, remove the exercise, and replace it with e-waste. For hundreds a pop. I don't get it. Batteries will run out and you're stuck with a skateboard or bicycle that weighs way too much.
Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!
"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.
micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"
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