Boosted vs Evolve

So I’ve settled into this routine where I use the Boosted Board for my commute during the week, and the Evolve board on the weekend. Every Saturday, it’s the same feeling.

I feel like I’m skating crooked. Like the board isn’t going straight. The feeling only lasts a moment, and is gone just as soon. But I’m pretty sure what I’m feeling is the difference of the single drive chain of Evolve boards versus the double drive train in Boosted Boards.

Don’t get me wrong. The difference is slight. A couple of degrees or less. As soon as you catch onto a particular board’s charistics, you naturally lean a bit differently to compensate. But the difference is there.

And while I’m talking about the difference between drive trains, there’s something else I have to mention. Remember when I bragged about only the Boosted Board being able to skate up Center drive? Well, it didn’t occur to me until I skated there with my SO, but I’d never even tried to skate my Evolve Bamboo Series two board up Center drive.

That night, she was skating the board. She weighs a good thirty pounds less than me. But I’ll be damned if she didn’t make it to the top of Center drive. So technically, Both Evolve and Boosted boards can make it to the top of the steepest hill around campus.

But the win really is on a technicality. Because the Boosted Board can *fly* up the hill. The Boosted Board makes it fun to skate up hill. The Evolve board really has to try to get you up there. It almost makes you feel sorry for it, the way the motor strains and carries you up at ‘leisurely walk’ speed.

Remember how I said that the Boosted Remote has grown on me? That I’ve come to see the genius behind its design? Well on a similar note, the new Evolve remote has gotten even worse for me, the more I use it.

The problem is that the way you have to hold the trigger, it isn’t comfortable. On long skates, I always feel like my finger is starting to cramp up a bit. Also, the trigger is so sensitive, I’m pretty sure next skate I’m actually going to use the original remote.

I still haven’t fallen using either of the new remotes. But I’m worried about how the remotes will take the fall.

I still dream of the day where I can control my electric skateboard and wear skating gloves at the same time.