Build your own board or buy a pre-built one? This is NOT a simple answer. The question should be: Why do you want to build your own board? If the only reason is cost, then we recommend you to go buy a pre-built board. Yes, the good quality boards are expensive and yes, the low-budget boards are made … Read More
Electric Skateboard Accessories
Wearing protective equipment should NOT be an option for esk8ers. Bear in mind that you are operating a motorized vehicle. As such, you should esk8 defensively. Most, if not at all times, you will be sharing the road with others and at high speeds, it becomes increasingly difficult to anticipate the movement of others. Random traffic events and blind … Read More
Review Methodology – ElectricBoarder’s Rating System
Our Rating MethodologyNo system is perfect, but we have given our rating system a lot of thought. Our goal was to try to eliminate as much bias as possible. We do not test every board and even if we did, it would still be biased due to the fact that every skateboarder has a different system of evaluation. Some of … Read More
Electric Skateboard Timeline – Updates, News, Historical Perspective
July, 2018 – Backfire announces Backfire Ranger X1, the first all-terrain board at under $1000 USD. Backfire also raises $331K USD on Indiegogo for its board, greatly exceeding the target of $50K USD.June 1, 2018 – Announcement of Enertion Raptor 2.1. Current 500 lots of Raptor 2.0 available for shipping. Raptor 2.1 availability planned for August 2018. Jed Board deliveries … Read More
Electric Skateboard Glossary of Terms
Electric Skateboard Glossary of TermsABEC – Annular Bearing Engineers’ Committee. ABEC is an American method for rating the accuracy and precision of bearings. The standards used is governed by the ABMA (American Bearing Manufacturers Association). It is a scale from 1 to 9, and only consists of odd numbers. In terms of cost, ABEC 1 bearings are the cheapest and … Read More
Will Acton Conquer The Electric Skateboard Market?
The creators of the Blink Board are back! Set to conquer the electric skateboard market, they released a new line of boards that may even crown them electric skateboard king… The Blink Board was a fairly basic electric skateboard. You could really see that they were trying to cut costs and that was where their competitors had the advantage. For … Read More
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