| e Controlled Skateboard | | | | The remote control of the radio controlled |
| It’s a hot summer and you and your | | | | skateboard can either be wired, in which case it is |
| friends want to hang out and do something fun | | | | not influenced by other radio frequency |
| and crazy so you figure: how about | | | | transmissions (ex: phone poles, power lines etc.), |
| skateboarding? You’re all excited and you | | | | or wireless - more likely to interfere with |
| grab your boards and head straight out to the | | | | surrounding radio frequencies but provides a larger |
| nearest skate park. While you all try different, | | | | mobility for your hands. The main use of the radio |
| new and harder to perform tricks you hear a | | | | controlled skateboard’s remote control is |
| silent sound of a motor: someone has the new | | | | to turn left/right and to accelerate or to slow |
| radio controlled skateboard! | | | | down the speed. |
| It’s a device basically meant to ease the | | | | The board’s size of a radio controlled |
| effort of constantly pushing the skateboard by | | | | skateboard varies between 34” - |
| yourself. It’s also very useful in cheating | | | | 46” and its weight between 15.4 lbs - 66.1 |
| the difficulty of some tricks and it makes them | | | | lbs, depending on the size of the board and of the |
| less dangerous in the process too. In other words, | | | | motor. |
| it’s a safer way to have fun. Another | | | | There are various remote controlled skateboard |
| advantage of the radio controlled skateboard is | | | | designed for more specific usage such as the |
| that you can “roll” faster than by | | | | terrain remote controlled skateboard also named |
| using the regular skateboard. | | | | “off-road skateboards”, |
| The radio controlled skateboard is composed of | | | | distinguished by having large knobby tires instead |
| an electric motor and a wired/wireless handheld | | | | of simple roller-skate wheels attached to the |
| remote control using radio frequency and of | | | | board. |
| course, the board itself. | | | | Radio controlled skateboarding is the new |
| The electric motor’s power varies | | | | skateboarding trend. Although it’s |
| between 150 and 800 watts. It can reach a | | | | motorized it is a silent and ecological device which |
| velocity of up to 48 km/h and an acceleration of | | | | more and more people use: some for having fun |
| 40 km/h in only 4 seconds which can provide | | | | and exercise with friends, some for making short |
| quite a rush. It uses mostly acid lead batteries but | | | | distances even shorter, some just for spending |
| some models of remote controlled skateboard | | | | some time out enjoying the wind blowing by |
| use a more modern type of batteries, the ones | | | | them as they roll and relaxing from a hard |
| based on nickel-metal hydrides or lithium-polymers | | | | day’s work. |
| that last up to 15 miles. A pleasant characteristic | | | | So why not make your hobby more easily to |
| of the electric motor is its silence so you can go | | | | practice? Next time you decide to go for a roll in |
| for a roll and listen to your favorite music on your | | | | the skate park or down to the mini-market to |
| iPod as well at the same time, which makes your | | | | buy a bottle of milk, make sure you have your |
| ride even more enjoyable, and so don’t | | | | radio controlled skateboard’s remote |
| disturb other people on the road nor scare off | | | | controls turned on and start easy-rolling! |
| animals. | | | | |