(music builds)
(mellow techno music)
- Welcome back to What's Inside.
I'm Lincoln, this is Dan
and today we're with friend Sam Sheffer.
- Hey.
- And today we're going to cut open Inboards.
- Inboards. - They're electric skateboards
and I'm so excited.
- These things are pretty sweet and thanks to Sam
for bringing this all the way from New York City.
- Yeah, first time in Utah.
- How do you like it?
You like this?
- It's beautiful.
The mountains, I can't get over the mountains.
(intense music)
- I don't know, maybe this is a new beginning.
Maybe this is our first of many collabs with Sam Sheffer.
- Yes.
- So if you remember one of our first ever collabs
that we ever did with anybody
and it was the Boosted Board.
- Welcome back to What's Inside
- [Dan] What is it that's unique about this thing?
- Alright, so I'm gonna turn this thing on
and you'll notice it has headlights and tail lights.
- [Lincoln] Wow, that's cool.
- [Sam] It's got motors inside the wheels.
Now listen to what it sounds like
when you rev this thing.
(small motor revving)
- [Dan] (laughs) Sounds like a video game.
- [Sam] It makes seriously crazy robotic noises.
It has a removable battery.
You just pop it out like this, grab the one
from your pocket or book bag, pop it back in.
It's nuts. - [Dan] That's cool.
And Lincoln, what's your favorite thing about this?
- It comes with a bag, a bag!
- [Dan] He's pretty excited about the bag.
Last time I was in New York riding on an electric skateboard
I crashed it into the East River
and it wasn't even my board.
- [Man] It went so far down.
It was you!
- I had the wrong remote, number two.
So, this video isn't sponsored by Inboard.
This is just Sam brought these boards
and got them so we could try them out.
- In a bag.
- There's a bag, if you didn't hear already.
There's a bag.
We're gonna go and try it out on some trails
and give you our honest opinion about
what we think about this board.
And then we're gonna bring it back and cut it open
because look how smooth it is underneath.
There's some wires right there but that's pretty much it
because you have the motor right there.
It's different.
This is a Boosted Board.
Lincoln, jump on this one, and look how bouncy it is.
- And notice the Inboard is super stiff and will not flex.
It's made out of some super strong composite material.
- Ta da.
Ta da.
- But enough talking, should we go ride?
- That's great, okay. - Yeah, let's go.
- Let's go test them out and see how this thing
really works in the real world.
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- [Dan] Lincoln's first time on a different type
of electric skateboard, let's see it.
No big deal.
There's Sam. - Yooo.
I'm pretty sure I have the fastest one.
(mellow techno music)
Aw, don't spit on them.
He tried to spit on the camera.
He tried to spit on you guys.
Give him a thumbs down for that.
Thumbs down for Lincoln spitting on you, that's what I say.
(whimpering)
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Woo hoo.
I'm gonna be honest.
This feels better than the Boosted Board.
It just feels so smooth.
I mean, this road doesn't have any bumps on it
so I think a board that's stiffer
is going to do better on flat ground.
Where if you're in like a city where there's lots of bumps
the Boosted Board might dampen the cracks a little bit
because of the flexibility that's in the board
that we saw Lincoln show earlier.
So far, ugh, there's bugs.
Do you see these bugs? Ugh.
I like this, I like it a lot.
- Get off.
- [Dan] (laughs) What do you think, Lincoln?
- So, sometimes on the Boosted Board
I just like letting go and just cruising
without any boost but it just stops you.
So if you pull off the trigger and stop going
- [Dan] It slows you down fast.
- It will stop you so fast - [Dan] This will?
- Yeah.
- [Dan] The Boosted board you can let go and
it saves energy and it just rolls.
See that, see how you can't spin it?
- [Lincoln] I can.
(spinning noise)
- [Dan] Well, I know, with that.
What I'm saying is this is what regular skateboards are like
or like the Boosted Board.
This one, since it has a motor in there, you can't do that.
But the battery still lasts longer.
This is a secret, I think.
Lincoln does not weigh very much.
Where, Sam and I do weigh a bit more.
Me, a lot more than Sam.
So if we let off the brake, the wheel can still
spin because of our inertia. - It's more heavy, right?
- Yeah.
- Lincoln, it's like he's not even on the board.
- It's like he's a feather.
Mystery solved.
Come back.
(skateboard rolls)
- Woo hoo.
- Whoa, that was fast.
(laughter)
(skateboard rolling)
- I'm worried about you, Sam.
- [Sam] I'm a professional, Dan.
- [Dan] Not a good idea. - [Sam] Oh, man.
- [Dan] No, I'm not doing that.
- [Sam] Ha ha ha.
- [Dan] Alright, that's the end of our little trip.
We're heading back, let's cut this thing open.
I wanna see what is under this nice, smooth, platform part.
I don't know if it's fiberglass, plastic.
You can see where it's put together right there.
- [Lincoln] Inboard, we're going to see
what's inside the board.
Inboard, we're gonna see in the board.
- Lincoln pun city.
Goodbye, Inboard.
It was a nice two hours riding you.
- So let's see what's inside.
- [Dan] Awesome.
Look at this Boosted Board.
Look, it's just wood, on all of it right here.
And then you have this compartment which
we learned is the batteries in there.
And then this is part of the motor.
Everything is on the outside
and then you just have this thin board.
This is sleek and smooth and aerodynamic.
Saw time.
We have to do this for science, right?
- Science purposes only!
(sawing noise)
- [Lincoln] Fussy! - [Dan] Smoking.
(sawing noise)
(fast-forward sound)
- [Dan] Dude the blade is just bending as we go.
It's so incredibly hot, that it's just melting.
The blade is melting.
I didn't make it all the way through.
Look at the underside.
- [Sam] Oh.
I wonder if we just stomp on it.
(stomping noise)
- [Dan] Oh! - [Sam] Nice!
- [Dan] We're done.
Alright, let's see what, oh.
Oh, so there is wood!
- [Sam] That entire thing is wood?
Are you kidding me?
- [Lincoln] What?
- [Sam] What, no wonder the smoke was going.
(ripping noise)
- [Dan] Smells like wood too, whoa.
(ripping noise)
- [Sam] Wow.
- [Lincoln] That literally is the entire bomber.
- [Dan] Dude, look at this thing!
It looks like, this entire thing is wood
and then it just has a layer of fiberglass
that surrounds it. - [Sam] Whoa.
- [Dan] Why do you think they would make a board
with that thick of wood?
- For sheer durability, I guess.
- [Dan] Maybe it's because on the other side
is the battery and they have to make a hole
for the battery, for it to sit in.
- [Sam] Ah, maybe they could just.
- [Dan] Like how deep is that indention go?
- [Sam] Oh yeah.
- [Dan] Okay, so there's the battery.
That's how low it goes.
That's almost to the bottom.
This right here is the little tiny line
that goes to the LED lights.
- [Sam] Ah, that makes sense.
- [Dan] One right there, one right there.
- So it's probably just one wire
that connects to there through the whole board.
- [Dan] It comes with this fancy tool thing.
Which is called what, in skateboarding terms?
- A skate tool.
So we're just gonna take the back truck off
to make this cutting process easy.
So, this is the bushing right here.
And then in theory this should just come off like this.
And then we can disconnect these wires that
are coming right out of the board.
- [Lincoln] What do you call it?
- Woah, okay.
So part one is this.
- [Lincoln] There's no cars.
- [Dan] We're in serious need of a company
to provide me with some tools.
Because every time we need tools, I don't have them.
All we need is the little tool that you put in there
and you twist it and then this tire would come off.
Instead, we're going to use a different tool.
(sledgehammer hits)
- [Dan] Woo! It cracked the rock.
(sledgehammer hits)
- [Sam] Wow!
Okay, it's not going to roll around anymore.
So, that's helpful.
(shatter noise)
- [Lincoln] Oh, you shredded the rock!
- [Sam] Oh! What's inside our rock?
(laughter)
I think you did make a little bit of a dent in that.
- [Dan] A little bit, being the optimal word.
(shatter noise)
It didn't move one bit.
(shatter noise)
Okay, I think that's enough.
My rock is in like 20 pieces now.
This is a lesson on how to make gravel.
Now you just pull it off.
Why didn't we just do that the whole time?
What? - [Lincoln] What?
- [Dan] Look at the wheel, that's it.
- You can squish it.
- This is the motor.
Look at how it's protected with this hard, hard steel.
That's the move right here.
I think Sam needs a turn.
Used a sledgehammer before?
- I actually have never used a sledgehammer before.
(sledgehammer hits)
- [Dan] Ha ha ha. - [Sam] Did I miss?
- [Dan] I think you totally missed it.
- [Sam] Did I just totally miss and destroyed your rock?
- [Dan] Thanks a lot, Sam, thanks a lot.
(clapping)
- [Sam] You've been hitting this thing.
You've been doing a good job for these.
Ah man, alright, another try.
Sam Sheffer, sledge hammer, take two.
(sledgehammer hits)
I definitely hit that.
- [Dan] And you didn't even hit the troll.
- [Sam] Take three.
(sledgehammer hits)
- [Lincoln] Yeah!
- One thing that we are not,
is we are not a channel where you learn
how to use tools properly and do things the right way.
(mellow techno music)
Almost there.
Could've done this at the beginning.
(sawing noise) (mellow techno music)
- [Sam] Okay, so we basically just cut that off
and the motor is still on there.
Oh, that's really hot. That's, yeah that's dangerously hot.
(sawing noise)
- [Dan] Got a jumper!
- Whoa! - That was..
- [Sam] That scared me!
- That's good enough, we are in this thing.
Alright, this is, you see the motor right there.
The bearing was on the back.
Are you ready for this, Sam Sheffer?
- [Sam] Yes, yes!
- Are you ready for your mind to be blown?
That's what an engine looks like.
- [Sam] Oh, wow.
- It's actually really cool looking.
- [Sam] Wow. - [Lincoln] Yeah!
- All through, you have those coils that go through it,
that make up the motor.
It looks like there's magnets all along this,
do you see those little metal squares right there?
- [Sam] Yeah, yeah.
- And then you've got the coils that kind of work together.
Somebody that understands motors really well
will understand what this looks like.
They're probably just like,
yeah, that's what a motor looks like.
(mellow techno music)
- [Dan] So here's your awesome look inside of the motor.
- I'm still surprised that this thing is just one thick
piece of wood.
Man, that motor is tough.
- This was a lot of fun, it was a crazy project.
- If you wanna see the behind-the-scenes of our day,
go to Sam Sheffer's YouTube channel.
He filmed our day and his experience in Utah,
first time in Utah.
Subscribe to his channel, check out his stuff
if you wanna see some awesome tech reviews,
vlogs from New York City
- I like New York City - And then hopefully,
we can convince him to come back to Utah
and do something else crazy with us.
Maybe something a little easier to cut open, though.
- Yeah, this was a bit complicated.
- We will put a link in the description to Inboard,
this M1 board.
- We did it. Ha!
(yelling)
- Go check out Sam Sheffer's YouTube channel.
We'll link it at the end.
N-card, see ya.
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