Just shy of 110 miles that I've put on my boosted board version too so I wanted
to come and talk to all of you about how its held up and my experiences with the
boosted board so far now I know there's a newer version that's came out you know
I bought the first version of the boosted board
not too long after it came out had that for probably a good year and a half or
maybe even longer and then when the version 2 came out I sold my other one
and bought this one because I wanted that extended battery I weigh about 230
pounds so I wanted that extended battery so I can go a little bit further of
course it did take almost a full year for that extended battery to come in but
once it did I got it on my board and now I can take advantage of those longer
ride times so now that I have over a hundred miles on my board which doesn't
sound like a whole lot but considering I only live about a mile maybe not even a
mile away from my office and the only other place that I really ride this to
is the grocery store and places that are within a mile or two of my house that's
a lot of rides that it takes to get to 110 miles on a boosted board now there
have been a couple of longer rides that I've went on I had to get my truck
serviced way on the other side of town and so I rode it back from that and that
was about a 14 mile ride I think that was probably one of the longer rides
that I've ever gone on on the boosted board that's a long ride especially if
you're riding around in town where the roads are maybe a little bumpy I mean
they're fine most of them but they're a little bumpy
little lifts in the sidewalk and stuff like that and sometimes you're on
asphalt in the road but that definitely is rough on the feet it's not that my
feet I couldn't stand being on my feet that long or whatever it's just all the
vibration and everything like that is a lot over that period of time but I have
ridden it around town a lot and I live in Modesto California which I don't know
if you've ever been here familiar with it
but the roads are I'd say average there are some roads that are really nice and
super smooth and I definitely appreciate those roads and then there are other
roads that probably haven't been conditioned or paved or anything like
that fifteen years a lot of those roads are
maybe in neighborhoods and stuff like that which some of them are around the
area that I go from my office to home so there's a lot of patches in the road and
stuff like that we have a lot of big trees big sycamore trees and stuff in
Modesto and they planted those maybe a little too close to the sidewalks and so
all the sidewalks have been lifted up by roots and whatnot so it's not the most
the smoothest place to ride a boosted board but it's definitely not too bad so
for me getting around on the board is extremely easy I used to skateboard a
lot back in high school I was never really that good I had some friends that
were and we used to skate around a lot so I have the basics as far as balance
and stuff like that goes but as I've gotten older I feel like I've lost some
of that I'm 38 years old I definitely don't try to push myself as
hard as I used to because I don't want to hurt myself I don't want to fall the
recuperation time is much longer these days and I just don't like getting hurt
I mean who does really but I'm here to talk just about how the boosted board
holds up a lot of people put out videos on you know they're boosted board after
they've ridden it for like five miles and they're like oh how great it is but
I haven't seen a lot of videos of people coming back talking about how it's held
up so I wanted to kind of just go down the board and talk about it briefly and
then kind of give some closing thoughts on on the board so we will start at the
front where the very first damage that I got to my board was which was with the
wheel on the front and this was my own fault I didn't take a corner as tightly
as I should and I was coming around and just caught my wheel on the edge of some
brick and it tore the wheel a little bit now this happened probably I don't know
a month after I got the boosted boards I probably didn't even have 20 miles on
the board and that happens I was low frustrated but it hasn't caused any
problems with me yet now you're probably looking at my board so far in thinking
wow that's a dirty board now I clean it about every 20 miles maybe less
depending on on the conditions of the road and what I happen to roll through
the roads here definitely are not that clean as you can see by the wheel
so the front of the trucks have also held up really well minimal scratches I
go up and down curbs and stuff like that I Drive off of curbs I don't go up the
the big curbs that are that's impossible on something like this unless you do
something like a grab and pull it up but I do go up little lifts on the sidewalk
you know that are a good inch and so there are opportunities for things to
get scratched up the and trucks definitely take the take the most damage
on a skateboard if you've ever skated before you probably know that so the the
threads on the truck here there's a little bit of damage on that because you
know I've gone up some stuff and ran into some stuff on accident luckily I've
never crashed I haven't fallen off the board really hard or hurt myself at all
but nonetheless you know this is what you can expect so the wheels are a
little dirty you can see in there and the bearings they get dirty wheels
collect a lot of dust and stuff from the ground and these get dirty so what I've
been using to clean my board and I'll talk about that as I go down it is
electronics cleaner because electronics cleaner is going to be the safest thing
to use around any of the electronics that on your board now I'm not using it
to like douse my board I definitely don't recommend cleaning your board with
like running water like running your hose over it or anything like that
because these electronics are not completely sealed
they are pretty darn well sealed and I got a good look at that when I did the
upgrade to the extended battery pack I was able to see under the battery and
see how well everything was sealed and it really made me feel a little bit
better even about the board but the electronics go down through a channel
through the board the the wiring does and I just don't want fluids getting in
there because I could imagine you know too much moisture inside the board is
gonna make it delaminate I mean they're already have done stuff to the board to
run the wiring and stuff I want to make sure that stays in tact as much as
possible so I put the extended battery on when I finally got it which was
almost a year later after it was promised but I got it and it's been
great I love the extended range battery because I get that much more
distance out of it being a heavier guy so moving down the board I've got a
couple of stickers and we're moving to the back of the board you can see we've
got the controller we've got the rear truck here with the dual motors it's a
little dirty this is literally from my last ride usually I would clean up
something like that because I don't want it to get sticky or stuck to my board
but sometimes you're gonna get some stuff kicked up on your board I try to
avoid running through any types of fluids or anything like that that may be
on the ground but you can't avoid all of it so on the back of the board you can
see we've got a little bit of damage on the motor guards and then there's the
the pulley guards here that have a little bit of damage those are
replaceable you can buy new ones their job is to protect the pulleys and
everything from the damage that's gonna come from running over little rocks and
stuff like that you can see little dings in the paint here on the motors
themselves that's from rocks that just get kicked
up I mean you're going down the road those things are gonna be there it's
hard to avoid them and one of the nice things about a boosted board is it does
a better job at rolling through that stuff then smaller skateboards do and
part of that is because it is propelling you forward when you're pushing with
your foot like you are on a typical skateboard when you're not pushing
you're always slowing down and so when you hit something it has no forward
momentum other than just you know whatever momentum you gave it last to
roll over that object whatever it is a little crack in the road a little rock
or something like that so boosted board can definitely go over stuff a lot
better I don't recommend going off-roading or taking a challenge to go
through that next gravel pit that you see but it definitely can take some of
that stuff and that's one of the things that I really like about skating on this
as opposed to one of my other boards that's non propelled so you can see
we've got the two pulleys here and they are a little dirty but they've held up
pretty well the only thing that I'm a little worried about is this noise which
I've had for quite a while and even when I clean even when I clean off the
pulleys and kind of clean everything out I still have that noise I'm not a
hundred percent sure what it is I think it's it just must have something
to do with the motor it's kind of made a variation of that noise since I first
ran it at the beginning it makes a little bit of noise but it has gotten
louder so the pulleys are still in pretty decent condition I'm not a
hundred percent sure how often you're supposed to replace them but I feel like
probably within the next 50 miles I will replace them the last thing that I want
is for a pulley to come apart when I'm going 18 to 20 miles per hour down the
road because one of those pulleys if I'm lucky will shoot out the back and eject
like nothing or it will get wadded up and take me down with it I really don't
want that to happen and I haven't heard anybody talk about a pulley braking or
anything like that my experience with pulleys like this on
things like go-karts and motorcycles and whatnot is that I'm probably not gonna
have a problem there the likelihood of a pulley snapping on me is slim to none I
think it would fall off before it would do that and I don't see how it would
fall off unless this guard was completely removed but there there are
things that can happen I could get a good chip in that guard and it could
catch on the pulley and cause problems but all of these things could happen I
mean anything really can happen when you're on something that's moving and
has moving parts so a little bit of damage here but I can replace these
guards that's definitely not a problem I see them on the boosted board website
I just haven't ordered any yet and I think that these ones have a lot of life
left in them now the wheels also you know though I never really see anybody
with dirty wheels like this this is how your wheels gonna look most of the
people that I've seen on social media and whatnot seem to have nice clean
wheels you can of course clean these you can take maybe like a little file and
just kind of run them over the top and knock the dirt layer off or maybe a
little bit of sandpaper really really fine sandpaper and just go over them and
it'll make your wheels look nice again I used to do that with skateboards so I'm
definitely after this video going to be using some electronics cleaner to clean
this up I may even give you a little bit of b-roll for that because another thing
that I don't see much of is content where people are talking about how to
clean your boosted board and how to care for it
it's much cooler to vlog and do all that stuff that it
to talk about maintenance but with something like this that we're going
down the road at you know 15 20 miles per hour on maintenance is important to
take care of the board now the back of the board has really little to no damage
considering I stand the board up all the time I drag the board when I pull it up
and carry it and the board is really held up so with that said I mean there
really isn't much else left to say about the board we could take a look at the
top of the grip tape which also has held up really well there are a few little
markings along the sides just from you know my foot basically but the grip tape
has held up really well and I haven't had any issues there of course you can
always regrip a board it's extremely easy to regrip a board maybe going with
the two different the two different grips that they have here might be a
little bit of a challenge but it's really easy to regrip a board and I know
you can order new grip tape from boost of themselves so with that said I highly
recommend a boosted board and and I'm not fanboying over the boosted board
there are a lot of great writer bowls out there that's definitely a huge
market right now but what I do recommend is that you go with a reputable brand
don't buy you know a Chinese knockoff or something like that because the
controller that you are using and the way that it pairs and connects and the
security there and everything that's involved with connecting between these
two devices is extremely important I would not trade that for a few hundred
dollars though the boosted board is a little bit overpriced in my opinion you
can't put a price on your safety and when it comes to riding down the road on
something that's moving that fast you want to make sure that you are writing
on something that was well thought out that was not rushed to market that was
well tested and maybe even is you know at least designed if not maybe partially
built in the US I think it's very smart to take that into consideration because
of your safety so not to say that things built in the US are better than anywhere
else it's just I am moving down the road on something going that fast want to
make sure that I'm trading out my life for something that
may be a few hundred dollars cheaper so I've got some links down in the
description below for you if you're interested in a boosted board clicking
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to do that so with that said thanks so much for checking out this video on
boosted board 100 plus miles later I just wanted to talk about that and kind
of share my experiences so far look forward to seeing what all of you have
to say down in the comments section and I hope to see you back here in the next
video