What is it like riding an electric skateboard?

What is it like riding an electric skateboard?

Borrowed from purpleistacky on Reddit.

This is what it’s like:

“I always explain it to people this way:

When you ride a skateboard/longboard, when you ride a bike, when you ride a scooter, and you’re on flat ground, you need to push to get to a certain speed. That speed is never consistent. You only hit that max speed for half a second before it goes back down, unless you keep pushing and working on it. Same thing when you throw an object, it hits its max height only 1/10 of a second before falling down if you throw it up. But when you stop pushing, you hit that speed peak, it lasts one moment but its a great feeling, that’s why you do it over and over and over again. Pushing 5 steps hard on a longboard, then letting go and just enjoying that short moment of full speed while you can focus on your senses, that’s the best part.

Well with an electric skateboard, that single short moment, is the full ride. You are always at that peak, you are always able to focus on your senses, feel the wind in your face, breath in the scenery, while going fast. The pleasure doesn’t come from the fact that you don’t have to use your muscles to get there, it’s just that if you keep pushing hard, you don’t get to enjoy the moment as much.

The other solution to that is downhill longboard/bike etc, and that’s not easy or accessible to everyone. When you go downhill, you also get that peak during the whole ride, but there’s more pressure and of course risks and for many people, fear.

But with an e-board you get that all the time. Even uphill. And that’s why you literally feel like floating/flying sometimes. So you get the downhill feeling, without going downhill. With slightly less adrenaline. It’s a great feeling and it never gets boring. Especially at higher speeds, or with AT wheels, which allows you to not care about the cracks on the road or the sticks and stones on the ground and enjoy the moment even more. Sorry for my awkward English.

In one word: exhilarating.”

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