I've had the Velar for 4 months, the belt drive version, and ended up selling it recently. The trucks are horrible. It's great if you actually use it for mountain boarding, but for street use, it's way too stiff and doesn't maintain a carve easily, even on the loosest setting. The next big issue is the deck shape. It looks cool and honestly one big reason why I bought it in the first place, but it does not flex, meaning that my feet are at that angle the entire time. This makes it so that my weight are distributed to the outer edges of my feet, instead of my entire feet because I can never have my feet flat. For rides under 30 minutes, that's fine, but anything over an hour becomes very uncomfortable. As for using it off road as a mountain board, the deck again is a problem due to it not being flexible so my feet are always at an angle. It also bounces me off the board quite a bit due to the stiff deck and not being absorb any bumps. The ESC and remote is amazing though. Super responsive, great torque, great top speed. I have a few other boards, in the $2500-$3000 price range and nothing feels as linear and responsive, so it kind of sucks that the deck and trucks ruined the board for me.
Yeah thats been my main issue with it as well, its just so stiff in turning, like even more than Kaly or LaCroix was, I want to see if I can fit some trampa springs znd dampas on it and see if that helps, also yeah the stiff deck and lack of binding options make it a hard sell as anything other than a street board, its just weird they ship stock with 200mm knobbly instead of street wheels.
The board is less and less stiff by using it. As for the position of feet I managed to get used to. It took me 1000km to really be confident on my position, but when you get it it feels like you're in something flat it's kinda crazy. But yeah in a sense I understand. I rode almost 2500Km with it and as for me this may be my best buy all of time 😂
I actually talked with Fabian about this board in particular and he road it at esk8con and agreed there was something off about the bushings on ours, riding with both on the inside definitely improves things but you trade a bit of high speed stability. Overall though still an amazing board 🤙
I wanted one until i saw this and read the comment below from the guy who sold his. My Explorer flexes and turns brilliantly, I'll stay as i am. Good video
yeah, same here. I love the look, its pretty much exactly what i would like a board to look like.. but it if turns like a truck then no thanks. I need a decent turning circle.
So as a side note I have since moved the rear bushings to the inner position and it turns significantly better now, but not sure how stable it will remain at higher speeds. But a huge difference from stock, i still think they need to switch to springs.
For sure man was great meeting up, and I know the feeling got super wrapped up in everything going on, so many cool vendors and the race was intense 🔥 cant wait for next year 👊🤙
I could probably get something custom, but these are the long tube barrels and not standard skate bushings, my best bet right now would be to see if trampa springs and dampas can slot in, which I think they can, but need to pop one off to measure.
Yeah that was a big one with me as well, the arch is a bit too aggressive and that foam grip pushes your feet up higher towards the edges, toe stops or higher edger would defo help imho
So I actually talked with Fabian about the stiffness, he agrees that my board in particular (and I have no reason to doubt others are not experiencing the same) is not within spec on the duro, will be following up on a fix or see if there might be a future option to get diff duros 🤙
I wouldn't say that necessarily, you can definitely put bindings on stiff decks, SRB, Kaly and etox as just a few examples, though yeah the utility of bindings definitely leans more for MTB where you actually need them. Iny case I think it just needs softer bushings and a slightly less aggressive concave 🤙
Too expensive, especially when you can get something like a B-one Titan (random example) for less than half the cost, and without many of the head/foot aches, yet most of the performance! The board looks cool, but it certainly doesn't look comfortable to ride for extended periods! I'd take the N3 over this all day long, and that's still a LOT less expensive. No thanks...
I'm generally inclined to agree on the performance to cost front, however if you're going to toss OEM white label brands like b-one in there then they definitely beat out most in QC. I would also say after just under 100 miles on it, the boards actually pretty comfortable, the footing is just wonky feeling tbh. Again the only really big gripe with the Velar is the stiff handling which unfortunately hasn't really improved 😑
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I've had the Velar for 4 months, the belt drive version, and ended up selling it recently. The trucks are horrible. It's great if you actually use it for mountain boarding, but for street use, it's way too stiff and doesn't maintain a carve easily, even on the loosest setting. The next big issue is the deck shape. It looks cool and honestly one big reason why I bought it in the first place, but it does not flex, meaning that my feet are at that angle the entire time. This makes it so that my weight are distributed to the outer edges of my feet, instead of my entire feet because I can never have my feet flat. For rides under 30 minutes, that's fine, but anything over an hour becomes very uncomfortable. As for using it off road as a mountain board, the deck again is a problem due to it not being flexible so my feet are always at an angle. It also bounces me off the board quite a bit due to the stiff deck and not being absorb any bumps. The ESC and remote is amazing though. Super responsive, great torque, great top speed. I have a few other boards, in the $2500-$3000 price range and nothing feels as linear and responsive, so it kind of sucks that the deck and trucks ruined the board for me.
Yeah thats been my main issue with it as well, its just so stiff in turning, like even more than Kaly or LaCroix was, I want to see if I can fit some trampa springs znd dampas on it and see if that helps, also yeah the stiff deck and lack of binding options make it a hard sell as anything other than a street board, its just weird they ship stock with 200mm knobbly instead of street wheels.
The board is less and less stiff by using it. As for the position of feet I managed to get used to. It took me 1000km to really be confident on my position, but when you get it it feels like you're in something flat it's kinda crazy. But yeah in a sense I understand.
I rode almost 2500Km with it and as for me this may be my best buy all of time 😂
I actually talked with Fabian about this board in particular and he road it at esk8con and agreed there was something off about the bushings on ours, riding with both on the inside definitely improves things but you trade a bit of high speed stability. Overall though still an amazing board 🤙
I wanted one until i saw this and read the comment below from the guy who sold his. My Explorer flexes and turns brilliantly, I'll stay as i am. Good video
For sure, it's very sleek, but a bit of a mixed bag on ride feel and handling out of the box.
yeah, same here. I love the look, its pretty much exactly what i would like a board to look like.. but it if turns like a truck then no thanks. I need a decent turning circle.
So as a side note I have since moved the rear bushings to the inner position and it turns significantly better now, but not sure how stable it will remain at higher speeds. But a huge difference from stock, i still think they need to switch to springs.
Awesome vid as ever! Those visuals were sublime. Board looks insane you sold it well
Much love my guy 🙌♥️🔥
Really good review. Nice meetin ya in Vegas. I wish I had a chance to ride the velar but got caught up in the races. I luv their remote design. 🔥😎🤘
For sure man was great meeting up, and I know the feeling got super wrapped up in everything going on, so many cool vendors and the race was intense 🔥 cant wait for next year 👊🤙
Looks great & ecellent speed looks fabulous
Its a gorgeous board in person 🤙
No other bushings? I'm sure brad will have some options ( riptide). Reach out to him?
I could probably get something custom, but these are the long tube barrels and not standard skate bushings, my best bet right now would be to see if trampa springs and dampas can slot in, which I think they can, but need to pop one off to measure.
Trampa spring and dampers Work great! @@DredSk8
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Nice review!! Enjoyin the consistent videos 👌🏽👌🏽
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Haha thank you, we'll see how long I can keep up the pace 🤙
EXCELLENT video!!!
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Bro this board is sick and so is the music! Haha
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Foot position sucks. I levelled it out by layering gorilla tape on it. Used a whole roll. So much better now.
Yeah that was a big one with me as well, the arch is a bit too aggressive and that foam grip pushes your feet up higher towards the edges, toe stops or higher edger would defo help imho
uhhhh yea correct the lack of binding option, but it will still be too stiff :-/
So I actually talked with Fabian about the stiffness, he agrees that my board in particular (and I have no reason to doubt others are not experiencing the same) is not within spec on the duro, will be following up on a fix or see if there might be a future option to get diff duros 🤙
No flex = no bindings. If the deck was flexible, bindings would be easily to install.
I wouldn't say that necessarily, you can definitely put bindings on stiff decks, SRB, Kaly and etox as just a few examples, though yeah the utility of bindings definitely leans more for MTB where you actually need them. Iny case I think it just needs softer bushings and a slightly less aggressive concave 🤙
Too expensive, especially when you can get something like a B-one Titan (random example) for less than half the cost, and without many of the head/foot aches, yet most of the performance! The board looks cool, but it certainly doesn't look comfortable to ride for extended periods! I'd take the N3 over this all day long, and that's still a LOT less expensive. No thanks...
I'm generally inclined to agree on the performance to cost front, however if you're going to toss OEM white label brands like b-one in there then they definitely beat out most in QC. I would also say after just under 100 miles on it, the boards actually pretty comfortable, the footing is just wonky feeling tbh.
Again the only really big gripe with the Velar is the stiff handling which unfortunately hasn't really improved 😑