Backfire Boards Reviews

Its been a couple months and about 150 miles total. I use it for the fun of cruising and carving about 50% of the time, and the rest is errands and trips to work. Most of the pavement here is rough and the board handles it well. At 5 foot six inches tall, 150 pounds I get a max turbo speed of 16 mph. The trip home from work is 7 miles, mostly uphill and it completes it starting from full charge. I typically run it in sport mode for errands and trips and turbo for cruising. The wheels urethane is...

Actually, I haven't ridden it myself yet. My has it in Germany while I am staying in Taiwan. He appears to enjoy riding it though, even though he'd like it to have more range. He praises its light weight and the sleak design. He would have preferred a longer kicktail, since he's tall and comes from longboarding. As he's never ridden a surfskate before, he's not used to the looseness of the front truck but got used to it quickly, because the board rides very stable with its large wheels. I hope I...

Really I'd like to give this a 4.5. Out of the box it's a great beginner board that can keep you content as you get bolder, to a point, and if you stick to street urethane wheels under 100m. Where I have some beefs is the out of the box setup, bushings in particular. It's *way* too tight with stiff bushings from the factory for me and while I'm pretty light at 135 even loosening the kingpin nuts as far as they can go doesn't give much more turn but does add a lot of slop when the board is j...