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Sticks
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2020 3:44 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 10327 Location: Raytown Travel Agency
Just got one. Love it. Meepo V3. Its a downhill board, but with a free ride uphill over and over! $379

Boosted and Inboard are dead, but the new gen of upstarts outperforms those at less than half the price anyway.

Anyone ride them?
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alldayphila
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 10:23 am Reply with quote
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that's a decent price. I wonder if anyone has put the guts on a real skateboard with a tail? In stock condition, these seem more like a motorized furniture dolly than a skateboard and the typical rider of these can suck a dick.
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Sticks
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 2:13 pm Reply with quote
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They’re like 90% downhill or longboard or whatever decks. College dildos. Now they do 10x30s with tails too.

I’m about to swap guts onto a 36” Madrid.

They also have one-piece kits that bolt up as a rear truck. Sounds like some toy bullshit but these things have tons of power now.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6lmtrko1PuY
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swelbow
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 12:53 pm Reply with quote
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I always figure I’ll get one when I’m 50.
In the land of endless suburban sidewalks I think it would be so cool to go for an hour without putting your feet down.
I wish they had a laser warning system for cracks and rocks so you could space out more. Maybe a compressed air rock ejector on the front wheels, synched with the lasers.
Somebody made a mind control one a few years back.

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Sticks
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2020 5:33 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 10327 Location: Raytown Travel Agency
The bigger wheels help with that. 90-100mm are the smallest, with bigger rubber or even pneumatic tires up to 10" and in pretty much any size in between.
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x1124x
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:39 am Reply with quote
Joined: 24 Aug 2003 Posts: 1467 Location: Lehigh Valley, PA
This one looks like it has a tail?
https://www.meepoboard.com/collections...ucts/meepo-mini-2

I wonder how hard it would be to put that on a standard deck? Are the trucks part of the set up or can you swap them out?


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Sticks
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2020 6:58 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 10327 Location: Raytown Travel Agency
That's a good board. Same power & guts as the V3. Normal truck mounting.

It all swaps easy, the only complication is the power wire running from the bigger box to the smaller box.

From the factory it's laying in a shallow routed channel on the topside all fancy, but you can just run it on the underside. It would be protected by the boxes projecting out/down. Or route a similar channel on the topside of the new deck.

These guys use hub motors, which allows you to "freewheel" or just push, unlike belt drives which drag the board down when not in use. Hubs are also essentially silent unlike belts.
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