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 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.
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
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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