hey guys it's welcome tested and it's norm from tested or machan you're
wearing a silly hat it's called a helmet why are you wearing a helmet safety
first that's why safety is your middle name eye safety always know why are you
being safe on this thing yes because for the past few weeks I've been riding the
boosted and it's an electric skateboard let me repeat that and electric oh-ho
I've seen this so that means you can go anywhere you want above any surface but
it has to be powered if you want to go above water
that's called a hoverboard oh it's not 2015 white yeah okay so what is this
very soon this is from a company called boosted it's a bunch of guys in Stanford
Palo Alto they did a Kickstarter a couple years ago they designed to be an
electric skateboard they want to attach motors to a longboard this is a
longboard definitely it's a long boy guess what is right here there are two
motors so they look at giant quadcopter mothers I think they basically are there
out runners brushless motors yeah two of them thousand watt motors when they
launch this as a Kickstarter hugely successful lot of people bought them how
many people bought them a couple hundred they raised like fifty thousand dollars
or something no no it's a couple hundred thousand okay
that's because when I sold this MSRP it was a two thousand dollar skateboard Wow
but that was really expensive what did skateboards normally cost like
good one I don't know 200 bucks 150 200 bucks
yeah like that Wow expensive but they have a whole new line out this year so
they actually have three models that start one starts $1,000 this is the high
end model the boosted okay plus the 2 plus which has two motors or a thousand
watts a bitch engineer so we can go faster than their stock model and well
how much changes between the models is it just the number of motors the battery
and stuff is the same battery itself the same the lowest end one which is a
thousand dollars has one motor okay the second tier one which I believe is
$1300 has two motors but it isn't captive thousand watts and then this is
a thousand watt fully powered which the Plus which I believe is $1,500 okay
and a thousand watts is the battery capacity
that's the the motors more power so here's how it works
you can't just strap motors on two wheels and calling this caper I guess
you could what wouldn't be baby have to have some kind of gearing because the
kind of motors that are gonna fit on here are going to provide the torque you
need to take off when you put a giant lardo like me not right they want to
make this feel like a longboard that anyone who's written a longboard would
be comfortable with so designed it as a longboard first so and they chose a
longboard I presume because people use them to like commute from where the bus
or train drops them off the last mile to your house right the type of boarding
you do with the longboard is what they wanted to power because you're not going
tricks list this is not for grinding there's no you can't kick the basket and
rip and shreds ro no I see people like carrying a surfboard and going down to
the beach with this kind of skateboard that's right exactly and we're commuting
so it's a longboard it's a custom board so it's not like they just got this deck
and put it on because if you can see on the top and I'm not gonna peel it back
they're actually four ridges here can you feel that four ridges mmm
and that's because they've actually milled into the board the wiring to
connect to batteries okay so this stuff in the front is electronics and without
doing that they wouldn't have a way to get the the energy to the back exactly
that makes sense exactly because they wanted a low pro I guess a narrow
profile they didn't want the battery to be bulky enough so that when you skate
over something you would knock it one thing I wanted to put at the top
obviously either um this board is really springy or they are all onward springy
like this or some of them more rigid someone will rigid I am NOT a long
border traditionally I this is like my first
time on some like this will have a card writer usually car driver yeah bus rider
train rider a plane flyer the amount of flex you have on it gives you lets you
change that you can turn and it gives you just more versatility in how you
skate a little softer more ride maybe yep
and it's like suspension almost but the actual thing suspensions are the trucks
which is what's attached to the board where the wheels go these are I believe
our custom trucks obviously the back one this little drivetrain here is custom
the front one looks off-the-shelf but the back one it might have some sort of
stuff this stuff this looks like a totally custom design
yeah and then the wheels of course are also two of them are standard and tore
custom and they just modify they're not doing they're not making their own
wheels it doesn't look like it looks like I just take off the shelf wheels
and then modify them to work with the driver these I believe or orangutan 75
millimeter wheels mm-hmm and in the back you can actually see that there's a
mechanism here so it can be they just put a they drilled it looks like six
holes through the through the plastic of the wheels so that they could connect
the drivetrain to the to the wheel that's right and the drivetrain is it's
simple it's just cables it's just some belts belts yes two belts connected to
the motors they're exposed but but not at risk of being torn and their gear
belts too they're not just fly it's not just friction there's gears on here you
said you didn't notice was slipping at all
they weren't slipping I didn't haven't had to tighten them yet it's something
maintenance is something you will have to do on this and they can they're
replaceable by the user presumably if you need to revise a joint you can
tighten them you can replace the wheels yourself as well the only thing you
can't really service is the battery the battery theoretically lasts up to five
years of reg if you write regularly several hundred charges charge cycles
it's lithium polymer or lithium ion it's a lithium lithium battery so 1500 charge
cycles depending on how hard the charge it exactly okay many many charge cycles
and you will be charging this because if you want to use this as a commuter board
your range is going to be basically one trip at each direction
six miles six to seven miles based on 185 pound Rider and also also your speed
so let's talk about the actual riding s yeah how do you control this thing you
just lean or something no it's right now it's not gyro control that's controlled
with the remote so this is a Bluetooth remote okay they prototype many of these
and this is design they came up with which I think it's okay it's not those
organ amelie comfortable remote there's a trigger here which is not the
accelerator trigger this is a called of dead man's trigger okay so you can only
activate it by holding the trigger down and you actually accelerate or brake
using this jog dial okay so hold on let's just let's just test nope no
wheels mm-hmm low low we had wheels are on the table I'm gonna flip this upside
down okay there we go yeah so the wheels only go
and if I let off it just kind of coast to a stop that's right no the board
itself presumably is like splash proof waterproof all that stuff is the remote
- no ok so remote if you dump this in water
you'd be hosed so don't wipe out and splash into a puddle yeah ok throw this
way you mean you can there's actually you can actually attach it to your wrist
whoa attached to a wristband so it's like a Wii mode so you don't fling into
your TV kind of ok exactly it does let you check the power status so right now
I'm at five bars of power ok and you can also tap this button three times to
change in the one of four speeds ok the speed to different power levels
determine your max speed from whether that's you know 15 miles per hour
all the way to 22 miles per hour and also how much torque you get for going
uphill so yeah I mean I assume you use that more I can't imagine you want to
ride this thing at 22 miles an hour some people unless you're going down
hills or something they say that most people ride long boards around 16 miles
per hour and I didn't really clock myself with you know I didn't have a
radar I didn't have a radar gun but I was maxing out at level 2 D comfortably
did you feel scared I felt definitely felt scared hang on
for the very first time ok there is a learning curve if you've never written a
longboard before and there's almost no learning curve if you have written the
longboard before it's maybe for me it took about 2 hours get used to and then
since then I've been riding it regularly and having a lot of fun with it for my
housemate who rises longboard regularly like if it's roll at his mode of
transportation it's a mode of transmission for anything that you know
for a mile uh it took him maybe 10 minutes to get
used to this and and so when he rode I mean I know you don't you're not gonna
step off and kick but he's he still able to step off and kick or do the motors
add enough tension to the to the board that doesn't feel right you can step off
and kick if you're going on a flat surface and no problem you get more
resistance that's not because that's just because the motors that's not for
the battery generation just I mean if you turn that if you turn this wheel and
you turn this wheel this feels like a super smooth smooth skateboard bearing
and then the one with the motor feels like it has a brushless motor attached
plus it's heavier too this is 15 pounds but what you shouldn't do is you
shouldn't all straight using the motor and kicking at the same time you
shouldn't kick and then boost them all so it's either or it's either or
or your minds get really confused both feet on the board before engaging the
turbo that's right okay and it's pretty good torque I mean it's instantaneous I
mean if I can hold on and I you should start on what could possibly go wrong at
all okay um so in my testing I was able to get you know six seven miles no
problem I mean I'm hunched sixty pounds now mostly flat those so flattered San
Francisco Hills both combination I will go down from my house along the beach in
the Golden Gate Park there's a big steep hill there you do have to transition to
different power levels by stepping off the board you can't mid mid power
acceleration jewelers hosting you can kind of do it while you're coasting but
you'd have to release all the triggers okay so you find the power level you're
comfortable with and then ride with that uh how about stopping and stuff like
that like when you're going down hills is it will it break for you you
basically go in Reverse you Java down the other direction and that will break
and that will actually regenerate the battery a little bit but you don't want
to be too aggressive and you don't want to be going down a crazy steep hill like
Fillmore Street in San Francisco or Lombard I assume right exactly if you do
run out of power about riding this you can carry around is 15 pounds I think
that's too heavy to walk around all day with it I know they have pictures of
people with the strapped on their backpacks I think that's silly
I think if you want to carry the sort of bus or a train no problem walk a block
or two no problem but to have it with you all day this is too heavy it seems
like if you live saying you're intense just go be Bart but the subway or
whatever in New York or metro and exactly right but it's too far to walk
but and then on the other end you'd have to take a bus or something this would
save you a bus ride on the other end of your of your commute and it's easier
than attaching a bicycle to a bus the front of a bus or melchio it's on a
vehicle and you can just chuck this in a car you know that'll sit between your
legs on the on the train okay so 1500 bucks is pretty expensive but when you
compare it to the cost of if this takes out public transportation from your
commute then you're looking at you know say five bucks a day here minimum from
uni more if you're writing Bart 200 days a year
what you pay for it into two and a half years yeah yeah and it's a lot of fun
I think they can use it for more than just that exactly you have fun with them
on the weekends you can if you even if you drive I keep this in the back of my
car now so if I find a cool place I can just skate and you know and have have
fun things I saw a random person using one of these the other day in San
Francisco it's a surreal experience you see them you know skating with this it's
definitely a head-turner people are wondering lately first of all
you look like a normal long border but then once they realize you're not
putting your foot on the ground and then you're also going up hills or sometimes
I walk on the street if like I'm not comfortable skating in the mill traffic
and I have this on this next to me I just have it like a like a puppy oh just
follows you have to follow me yeah it doesn't steer though it does not steer
on itself I'd be crazy I'd um I think it's a really neat product I think it 15
or bucks it's a hard sell for a lot of people but I think the more they sell I
mean I I would assume that the costs are going to come down over time especially
is the the big big motors get cheaper and the batteries get batteries kid I
think the the range of the battery is great right now six miles seems pretty
good for most absolutely urban folk I would hope that what they would do is
probably use less battery and make it way less how long does it the battery
take to charge on ninety minutes well that's not too bad I charge it you know
I don't drain it all the way down before recharging it so about an hour okay so
you you just leave the charger at home you don't need it
and you're not really using it for coming I'm not using for commuting it's
recreational I have used it for to run errands go to a grocery store and you
know come back with two grocery bags and and just do carry em or you just put
them on the board on arkarium okay so that's the boosted board how much is
this one that you reviewed again this one is 1500 bucks but it starts at a
thousand and I think if you have the money to spend it's really fun it's
tuned well and it's it's just looks magical it seems like you really had a
lot of fun with it we'll be back with more on tested soon see you guys later
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