Uploaded June 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Aaron our resident videographer also happens to be an ex-pro at riding Dirtsurfers, a snowboard like contraption with 2 bike wheels for riding downhill that had a short window of popularity some 20 years ago.

What do we do with something like this? Throw on a hub motor and LiGo's of course!

We gave it to some of our newer Grin staff to retrofit, with a goal of finishing before the May 20th eSk8 summit in Coquitlam: (reddit.com/r/boostedboards/comments/ubc6w2/vancouver_esk8_suburban_summit_group_ride_may_20th/)

This is part 1 of the build where we first fire it up with some proof of concept hardware. In Part2 we'll make numerous refinements.