Wall Street Journal's Electric Skateboard Recommendations

The Wall Street Journal names its alternatives to Boosted Boards.

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[DanielKwan]

Article link is in the description. Have a great day!

[paddleboarddog]

If you didn't mention the generative audio for the dialogue I would have never known. So it seems you are doing it right!

[sailboat]

I'm surprised the WSJ didn't choose something like the Zealot series with belt drive. I wonder who their target audience is and if this affects the article's information. Great video from DKWAN as always.

[pandrews]

Great review Daniel. I actually got into Electric skateboards because of your videos. I taught a class on Boosted boards, as an alternative to commuting. Their marketing strategy was exceptional and their fit and finish was above average, (from what I've read), but their prices were not at all competitive. I enjoy your reviews and video series. On a note, most likely Forbes does not ask an experienced rider to create articles, but "a person" to simply collect data and formulate an opinion regarding said products. I'm glad you weighed in on the issues, hopefully someone will be more informed regarding their next/future purchase of an Electric skateboard.

[StruggleBoxing]

RGB lights are great when riding at night. The less i have to worry about someone driving not seeing me at night the better.

[stewwho]

Heartily agree about the bushing stiffness on new boards. They’re putting around 100 durometer bushings on most boards out of the box to keep hot heads from killing themselves when they try to hit the +/-30mph industry standard top speed 🙄
Yup, street boards really don’t need to be that fast, esp with inexperienced riders buying them.

I use soft bushings on most of my boards for the love of the carve (buy a scooter if you’re just going to go in a straight line, right?)
& I use the soft bushings to set my top speed- I simply can’t go too fast without wobbling- which is fine, esp on a board with 90mm (standard) wheels & on short boards.

SO MUCH FUN is had between 10-20mph once one really falls in love with the play between wheel grip & gravity

I’m actively working to help riders in my city enjoy the surf 🏄🏻 over the scream 🏎️💨

[rosenpin]

Daniel you're such a great voice in the community! It's so important to have a big e-boards YouTuber who advocates for shorter, lighter boards. It's becoming more and more difficult to find good, innovative light boards which in my opinion are the reason to get an e-board over other vehicle types in the first place

[garogercade]

Sorry to hear about your larynx, Daniel. Hope you'll feel better soon.

[Tempest]

I miss Boosted so much :(. Even their ESCs were better than anything else I've tried. My Exway's battery drains no matter what. It's always flat after winter. My Boosted's battery still loses absolutely no charge while sitting still over winter, even today.

[BrykuIRL]

I was one of the earliest buyers of the Evolve GTR when they had the older version of the remote, electric skateboarding was the biggest passion I’ve ever found, but I was one of the unlucky people who had the break bug that would throw you off immediately, I ended up being scared of riding it due to this and it eventually stopped working, currently planning on buying another board at the end of the year, so keen to get back ESkating, never felt so free

[eBoardR]

*Boosted really did make eboardin more popular, * before that the controls were a little janky and never really took off. RIP Boosted.
🤙🏽⚡️⚡️🤙🏽

A lotta times these articles seem to be ill thought out, they do only basic searches it seems before they post an article lol.

Very much agree about makin boards more manouvarable and encouragin riders to ride slower, have more fun carvin then slowly build up to more speed if they want. If it barely turns its just less fun.

The belt drive M1 version of that Ownboard Mini is quite nice for those that want a simple mini, very easy and cheap to mod.

You should do more of these commentary style videos in between your regular ones 🤙🏽

[chinoin]

Love your channel, thanks to you I became in love with e boards, keep the great videos coming.

[yohvh]

I love the SUV comparison for the 2 in 1 At.s. I bought mine for luxery cruising. Not off-road

[adamhadam]

Nice move at 1.52

Good to see you again.

[Tobbsable]

Daniel, you are so right! never ridden over 55km/h and no desire to ever try it. once you crash over 30km/h you know how bad it can get. also portability is the biggest issue… I prefer my kaboo mantis king gt always over the ownboard zeus pro since i can lock it anywhere i want.

[raku]

Daniel, what would you (and others) nominate for these categories? Also, fave lightweight carver with impressive range? Thank you for your analysis and sharing your faves with us.

[eskjaimes]

Thank you for another video calling news outlets out!

[stevesteve]

A possible solution to the beginners on fast board is limiting the top speed until they have 25 miles of riding. For more experience riders that's not difficult, but they could provide warning and a code (button sequence) for the remote. This similar to performance cars that don't let engine reach certain rpm until it's reached a certain amount miles (break in)

[MrBaskins]

this is sadly the strongest article ive seen from the WSJ. normally they just publish trash dunking on the working class and glazing industry titans like SBF

[jonasg]

Couldn't agree more about the unfortunate path of heavier and faster boards.

Hope your throat gets better soon.