- It's time to head out of town for a conference so
I'm packing all of the essentials.
Toothbrush, socks, even though I'm more of a Final Cut guy,
and of course, Boosted Board.
In this video, I'm going to answer
the eternal question of how do you travel by plane
with a Boosted Board?
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So, why do I want to travel with a Boosted Board?
The conference I'm going to is in Sacramento
and I've been going for the past five or six years.
Sacramento is a really bike friendly town,
so that I feel makes it a very Boosted Board friendly town
but also every time I go to conferences like this,
I end up spending so much money on taxis, and Ubers,
and just getting around town every day
that I'd really love to just have my own way
to quickly and easily get around the city.
Traveling on a plane with a Boosted Board presents
several problems, the first is that this is rather large
and heavy so obviously it needs to be checked
but you can't just throw it into the luggage thing
and have it be tossed around.
So the first thing you need is a good case.
I found this case on Amazon, it's called a BrdBag,
kind of looks like it says bird bag,
but it's built specifically for the Boosted Board.
It has lots of padding,
it also has some special compartments for like the charger,
and the remote, and all that stuff.
The most challenging part of traveling with a Boosted Board
is this right here and not the beautiful
Enthusiasm Project sticker but what the sticker
is attached to, which is the battery.
And these lithium polymer batteries present
a lot of trouble with air travel.
These are the same batteries that most drones use,
and they're very sensitive to temperature changes
so they can't be stored under the plane
with all of the other luggage, they need to be carried on.
So, that means you need to detach the battery
from the board before going on the plane.
This needs to go on your carry on,
the board can be checked and stored below.
So, just how exactly do you take off
a Boosted Board battery?
It's pretty simple.
The first step is just to remove these six screws,
they come out pretty easily,
and then the battery should lift right off.
The hardest part is disconnecting the battery.
There are lots and lots of YouTube videos,
and lots of things online that say this is very difficult.
On my board specifically, it wasn't really that hard,
I just had to take two pliers and turn them
in opposite direction, the connection twisted right apart.
I will point out though that when the battery
is taken off the board, it looks very weird,
the shape and the color,
and then the cord sticking out of it.
It definitely looks a little bit like a dangerous device
so you know, you might want to decorate yours
with a few friendly stickers, or at least be very clear
to airport security that it's just a battery
for a skateboard and not anything else crazy.
So, that's it as far as prep goes.
Now let's see how it actually plays out in real life.
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So it turns out that traveling with a Boosted Board
on a plane is actually pretty simple,
and it gives you a quick, easy, and fun way
to get around wherever you end up going.
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and as for me, there's really only one thing left to do.
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