These look like super fun and not to mention extremely handy for small commutes.

If anyone has one, could you put your two cents in?

I'm keen on the offroad version for cruising to the store, inbetween train station and work, around the street, and shredding up the grass park down the road.

I'm particularly interested in the difference between a high end Aus built version:

www.greatelectricskateboards.com.au/ecommerce/off-road-boards/fiik-street-surfer-skateboard-lithium.html


and the el cheapo EBAY comparison:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1000W-CAMO-OFFROAD-MOTOR-WIRELESS-ELECTRIC-POWER-REMOTE-CONTROLLED-SKATEBOARD-/300727930368?pt=AU_Skateboarding&hash=item4604c80e00

Unforunately they are completely gay!. If you want to shred offroad then get a mountain board!. then you will also be able to use the kite with it also.

Want to cruise the street on small commutes? longboard skateboard.

Yes but not for very long i was offended. gay because its electric. it would be similat to putting and electic motor on a surfboard.

There are petrol powered units which are a bit less gay.

the boards themselves are heavy indeed with bad handling for any serious offroading you need bindings. anything without bindings suggesting you can offroad effectively is juts taking the piss.

I was doing 53kph on my longboard skateboard last night and that was very manly and super sweeeeeet.

Now if you grab a mountainboard. fire up your kitesurfing kites and boost off down the beach and high speed that is sweeeet. Yourl go faster than you cheesy electric skateboard can powered by the wind.

PS i've longboard skated for 12 years, mountain boarded for a couple and been kitelandboarding for 6. By far the most fun is kite landboarding, for anything on the tarmac longboards rule. mountain boarding is too limiting.

Plummet said...

gay because its electric. it would be similat to putting and electic motor on a surfboard.

Yes, VERY Gay.

Like this:

Since I moved to netherlands we found here tons of guys riding longboard on the bicycle lane. It's pretty funny.
The electric skate is like riding a cruiser but you don't have to push. It's pretty fast and trust me, it's far different than kiting because you can't balance against the kite ...

Here is sold for 400 Euro and I was tempted to buy one, because I do landboarding, but honestly, the board is over 10Kg with the battery so I can't imagine any nice jibe on the grass with that heavy board ...

tried one at the scarbs kite shop. They go crazy first and accelerate at an insane rate.