Boosted Commute pt 2

A few additional thoughts on the Boosted Board.

First, battery life. I know that my commute puts four miles on my board. The Boosted remote has five lights for battery life. After my first commute, I had two lights left. Just less than half. But after riding the same path the next day, the battery read three lights. Just more than half. It may be too early to tell, but I think it’s safe to say that my commute takes about half of the charge of the board. Which would put its total range, at about eight miles. Boosted advertises six miles. In other words, Boosted is the real hero. They’re the first electric skateboard company I’ve found that under promised, and over delivered on their battery claims.

After leaving work yesterday, one of my coworkers saw me and asked, “You’re not skating home on your electric today? Going it old fashioned?”

“Of course I’m skating home on my electric. This is the new one.” I said, and held it up a tad higher.

Why had he thought I wasn’t skating on an electric? It might have been the colors. My Boosted board is a gray/black and orange to the usual bamboo and red. But I think he was fooled more by the way I was carrying the board. With one hand, easily, like any orthodox boarders would carry his board.

When I used to commute on my snubnose, I would carry it vertically, only lifting it a few inches off of the ground. The Boosted Board can be carried like an ordinary skateboard.

Or maybe what threw him off was how slender she is. That loaded deck is only a few centimeters thick in the middle. Boosted really did a top notch job of disguising their electric as an orthodox.

Then again on the bus this morning, the woman standing next to me saw the orange Orangatang In Heat wheels and commented about how she used to skateboard. She never noticed that it was an electric.

Here I have mixed feelings. Because showing off the board is half the fun. I suppose the angle, for her, was just so. But still, the fundamental of the design is the same. Boosted makes a top of the line electric board that is as close to an orthodox board as can be. And I’m in love with it.