What speed can you get? Bamboo and Carbon GTR

Just a thread to compare what speeds people can get on different wheels,gearing, bearing setup etc...

Please post your weight and top speeds with different setups.

Bamboo GTR

Weight: 76kg

Bearings: Tekton 6ball, (Drive Bearing: NSK

Wheels: Evolve 107mm Gear:32t
Speed: 43kmh (a little slower than expected)

Wheels: AT 7in Gear:47t
Speed: 43kmh

On flat ground little to no wind checked on remote and gps with correct wheel settings......

 

What kind of bushings do you have?

At 28-30 km/h I usually have speed wobble and I lose control.

 

Still using standard evolve bushings atm.

 

I get wobble near 27/28kmh. ordered 98a bushings That should stabilise it a bit,.

 

Carbon GTR

Weight: 60kg

Bearings: Evolve ceramics (Drive Bearing: Evolve ceramic

Wheels: ABEC11 FlyWheel 97mm 75a Gear:32t
Speed: 49kph over a 450m2 straight

Wheels: AT 6in Gear:47t
Speed: 45kph when at 100% charge but drops to 39-40kph after 75ish% charge.

 

GTR fiber. 107 wheels at 32 T 208 lbs
I’ve hit 34.5 mph so far on a gentle down slope
The 107 Abec 11 wheels are really nice !

 

Gtr Bamboo
Rider 100kgs
At 7’ (66T) With all evolve running gear
Speed 35kph (Batt 100%)

street
Abec11 107’s (38T) With all evolve running 40kph (100%Batt)

 

Carbon Gtr
Gewicht: 67kg
Lager: Evolve Cearamics
Räder: AT 7" mit 66T Getriebe: 36km/h (Bat 100%)
Street Abec11 107mm mit 32T Getriebe: 44km/h (Bat 100%)

 

97mm 32T 49km/h , das stimmt nicht , max. 42km/h

 

I used to get speed wobble on my stock GTR2 Bamboo at those speeds, but then I realised speed wobble is, for the most part, all in your head. Now I routinely cruise around at 42kph, crushing my phaze 2 remote all the while.

I appreciate that is going to be a jagged little pill for some people, especially if they have just had a major wobble, eaten dirt and are convinced it was out of their hands. To be fair to those guys, there are certain speed wobble inducing surfaces, like when you cross the otherwise unnoticeable crest in the middle of the road that is there to enable rainfall runoff to the gutters that lay either side, or cresting the top of a steep incline that suddenly eases and therefore leaves you with a moment of near free-fall. For the most part however, the trick is to relax and let the board come back under you 'naturally'. I have done over 2000km now in 120 hours. Have I come off a few times? Sure, but never sober!

I weigh in at just shy of 100kg; except just after Christmas or other holidays. My setup is a stock, street, 97mm, Gen2 GTR bamboo. I don't like the carbon boards: I think they look 'cheap'. I don't like the all terrain wheels: I think they look like pizza cutters. Each to their own eh?

 

Okay, that board got stolen out of my car. I must have done easy 4000km out of it and it was battered to all hell so good luck to the thieving hound that now possesses it; and good luck charging it too. The belts absolutely deteriorate after about 3200km but, as far as I am concerned, that's pretty impressive for some glorified elastic bands. I think the lifespan of the stock 97mm wheels is about the same. This time I bought the ABEC 11 74A 107mm wheels on a 38 tooth drive. It sacrifices about 2.5kmh of top speed and proportionally notches up the acceleration and deceleration -- physicists will know that these two things are the same so I apologise for the redundancy.