LEIF's electric, snowboard style freeboard | Engadget
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2014
- Add two inline skate wheels with 360-degree rotatable casters to the base of a skateboard and you've got a Fast and Furious-style drifting device known as a freeboard.
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I love this idea. It can help beginners practice of the mountain before going. I have been trying to get my friend better at it but she is so intimidated by the mountain when we get out thefe6and loses confidence. I think if she was able to practice with this she would feel braver out there. Great idea!
This looks badass!
Copyright infringement?
Amazing guys.
Send it to Network A!! That would be so sick👌
they need to start producing these
This looks cool but I wonder if this causes lumpiness in the wheels due to a lot of dragging on the pavement.
I would fund this and buy it something I would use every day
this actually overcomes one of the major problems with freebords; the fact that they are no good on flatland. They are really difficult to push. So this could be of interest to those wanting to commute with a freebord. Maybe.
Just go buy a longboard
I have a long board. Freebords are MUCH more fun to ride, but they are only good for downhill atm
owen652 Better roll the flats on a C7 mounted carver. This way it's still a sport :)
It's a snowboard. And just like a snowboard it's not made for flat land and cruising. It's made for down hill and tricks. If u want to cruise and ride on flat land. By a longboard
Woooow am ganna buy it in the next 50 years when the price drop down
That is so cool
Is it easy enuf to jump off the board with foot strap things ? have a release on remote? or if board tilts over then they release?
it's just a motorized Freebord
does it works on sidewalks or any slops?
I want that !!!
How did this make it to market? The board in this video is actually a freebord.... you can see the logo on the skyhooks.... and their top deck battery pack is covering another logo in the grip tape...
I would buy one if it was just like only a little bit more expensive than a freebord but I mean come on. And besides a bill is part of the experience.
this thing will be better than the boosted boards
I would say it is about nearly there. Needs a revision on reliability for sure.
All that wiring business under the battery cover looks bad. Make sure you don't set your apartment on fire :)
bit of foreshadowing there sadly.
Swinging your back arm back and forth like that is very bad snowboarding form, but can help you get the rear of the board around in a tight spot. Is the person riding this board just not a great snowboarder or is that what it takes to get the rear of this board around? I'm guessing it's the latter.
This thing seen nice until U see the price tag -_- $1399
Many electric skateboards are over $1000 if you are on a budget either buy the e-go cruiser or built your own electric skateboard
If you buy an actual freebord instead of this plagiarized electric version, they're only like $220-ish
Plus anyone who rides a board with a motor on it looks like a total pansy. No hard feelings bro Preesh!
Keep going Leif safety #1
SEND ONE TO CASEY
The remote is huge they need to make it smaller or even a wrist band.
Cool. Unpractical, but cool to see inventions in this category. However, being strapped on a skateboard even partially blows this. Falling technique on a hard surface is sure as hell not sliding to a stop like on a snow with a snowboard. Hope to see a winter version of an electric skateboard. Or snowboard.
but can u jump with it?
Looking to get rid of one of these LEIF boards someone left it at the skatepark and has yet to claim. Its used and I don't have charger so I'm not sure if it works but it looks to be in pretty good condition. If anyone is interested lmk I'll let it go cheap + shipping !
sup luke quim. I am working on designing some upgraded part for that older model leiftech, if you could sell it to me cheap that would help a lot!
you got a freebord and probably got mad as you found out they are only ment for down hill. dont act as if you are inventing something new, your actually taking something and just putting a motor on it.....
exactly what i said
its my name !!
Did he just say "with the comfort on concrete"... His body must be numb
Eglide boards are still the MOST POWERFUL AND MOST DEPENDABLE BOARDS OUT. Eglide doesn't get enough respect. Tune in ill be posting videos soon.
this looks cool and i would buy it right away but theres like a xbox on the board
like 30 LEDs in that battery light
Boosted Boards have already done this. they took a longboard and powered it.
A Freebord will always be a Freebord. it's made for downhill shredding.
Casey make it happens!
"All they did was take a skateboard and add a motor!" Let me explain what's wrong with this statement.
First of all, if that's literally all they did, it wouldn't run. No power. Literalism aside, it's not a simple task of putting a motor on a board. You need to somehow link it to a sufficient power source to get it up to 20mph and sustain. And the drive on those motors has to be able to turn 360 degrees. If you have any legitimate knowledge of mechanical devices, then you know that that isn't actually as simple as it sounds. You need to have a drive that can function at any angle of rotation, and have a power supply that maintains contact at all times and doesn't skip. That means either no wires and plated power (Discs that transfer the power), jack power (like the old iPod shuffles and those huge ass charging bases), or complicated wiring that takes more knowledge to get wired than most people possess. Then there's the issue of the remote. That's a custom remote. It had to be programmed, linked to the board, and made so that if people potentially have two, they don't interfere with each other. Then comes programming the board. IT isn't just a giant power pack on the board. It's a processor, not necessarily huge, but there are batteries, a small motherboard to hold the electronics, and then there is the board itself. While freeboards may have 360 rotation, they don't come with a way to just strap a motor to the wheels and integrate a power supply. Give these people credit for something that honestly is quite a nice product.
much appreciated, great analysis right there bruh
If I will put engine on bicycle, can I say I invented the bicycle itself? It's quite a stuff to put proper engine on bicycle from scrap, you know. Etc and so on... The guy on vid should say: We took FREEBORD and worked on putting engine on it so you can ride on flat ground. And with all respect, do you own a Freebord? IF you don't you should buy one. And take a look on how the 360 wheels work. There is NOTHING complicated about putting gear there. Okay?
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were or are they going to be sued by freeboard developers ?
I can't see this being practical as the main idea of a freebord is to go down hill. This board probably can't go downhill at fast speeds as you'd probably wreck the motor since motors aren't supposed to be forced to spin. The whole point of a freebord is to brake and take control of your speed by slowing down when needed. This board will make you do both braking and accelerating simultaneously which isn't very efficient and seems entirely unneeded and useless. Also, the sliding aspect of this board seems extremely irrelevant at this point since a motor is placed in. Maybe I'm missing the point of this product. Someone tell me if I am...?
So if the point of a free board is to go downhill, imagine a free board that can go everywhere
They said this board is for commuting mainly.
you can't advertise a product without saying that you bought a freebord and put a motor on it. that's stealing someone's product. I will contact freebord and tell them that you are selling their product without even mentioning their company. they started this they invented the freebord you just strapped a motor to it and advertised that you invented the product.
aren't most electric skateboards /longbaords that same thing then? lol, no offense but they didn't do anything wrong unless it's patented. a free board is a type of board now apparently so they just made their own versiom
i do believe it is patented. its a type of longboard.
If all the rights to the design are owned by the company then alright. I'm not interested it haha, so I wasn't sure.
Did you just tell him you were going to "tattle tell" on him. Wow. Angry you didn't think of it first. If you don't like the video, then move on.....but threatening the guy and "snitching" is such a gross look. Sounds like something a toddler would say.
just slap a motor on a freebord and call it a leif
you cant. it needs to be able to be powered and rotate.
If you power the outside wheels, it will be sliding and pushing at the same time.
These guys manage to make this thing work, and ride like a down hill freebord. this will be amazing
Fucking wind noise is ridiculous!
This is a cool idea, but it's kind of called expensive? And I can buy a snowboard right nor for probably less than this is. I could also get a REAL Freeboard and just put a motor on it.
Lol don't you think that is how these guys started? You really want to spend all that time trying to recreate what these guys have nearly perfected? You must be joking.
and if u bought a snowboard, u would go riding down the streets with it...
you still interested? I got all the CAD files right here...
@@quinnfoster4671 lol, that was 14 year old me commenting. I actually would be interested, I'm an engineering major now
"$1,299 for one of the first production run LEIF boards?" That price a joke? All you did was took a skateboard and added a motor, you're asking too much!
Just skip this and give us a hover board already hahah
in progress...
Freebord so heavy.. and you it still weighted so electric. Driving central wheels? Show us 360! No you Can't! Freebord will go the board back? ahahaha you cool.
I don't see any evidence that this thing actually works...no footage of it moving on its own, every shot it is already either moving or stationary.
I really don't understand how it COULDN'T work, it's a motor attached to the wheels, not too complicated...
And there are videos out there of it moving
google freebord.
Its a freebord with a motor on the centrewheels. It does and has worked for about 7 years now.
A Freebord doesn't have motorized middle wheels... It's mainly a downhill/freestyle board no motors anywhere
Durrr it must work because no reason. They haven't made a prototype and you know it. Vaporware for sheep.
The prototype is in the video? did you even watch it?
They ride the prototype.
Casey Neistat!
It dont looks like something that can do stunts~
seems interesting, but i prefer my penny board, this is for rich kids
nice idea, but completly senseless. Who would like to ride a snowboard on a flat ground? A real freeboard feeling only comes up if you ride a smooth "natural" mountain-street.
This is just a little toy for people with too much money. For real fun and action you just need the power of slopes
Skateboards can go in any direction.. you can slide to a stop on a skateboard and the comfort of concrete? Have you ever eaten shit on concrete? There's nothing comfortable about it. This is an electronic skateboard/longboard it has nothing to do with a snowboard they dont have wheels and you ride them on snow. Who's the marketing genius backing this crew?
No, it's just a knock off of a Freebord with a motor added to it. Actual Freebord's have a lot more in common with snowboards than they do with skateboards. The only way they're similar to skateboards is the fact that they both have wheels and trucks. The way they work is identical to a snowboard; the edge wheels grip and give you control and the castor wheels allow you to drift effortlessly just like a snowboard, not like a skateboard which makes you lose all speed when you slide.
No way man. There are more differences between a freeboard and a snowboard that your not accounting for then there are between a freeboard and a skateboard. They may have more in common with a snowboard then a skateboard does but that's it.
Nah you don't know what you're talking about. I ride all three of them. If you put a skater on a freebord they won't even be able to turn it, a snowboarder on the other hand will be carving and sliding in no time. Freebording basically IS snowboarding on the streets.
Its a matter of physics not opinion. Snowboards have no wheels and can go downhill sideways feeboards do have wheels and produce endless amounts of friction in comparison to snowboards.
Exactly, it's physics: snowboards and freebords can go downhill sideways, skateboards can not (at least not without producing heaps of friction and losing momentum). Freebords actually produce LESS friction than a snowboard so yeah I don't know what you are going on here..
His riding technique is so bad it's killing me!