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The board is controlled via a small, simple remote. Also, I had to tighten the trucks on my Blink S as it came with super loose ones which were great a slower speeds but really didn’t help once you got closer to the higher end of the board’s capabilities. There’s just so many people, cars, potholes, etc. Here in NYC, 15 miles an hour on a shortboard is kind of terrifying (although less so thanks to the bigger wheels compared to the Blink Lite). The Blink S can handle double the incline for hills (8.6 degrees), can hit a max speed of 15 miles per hour, go a distance of 10 miles on a single charge and pushing the throttle all the way forward definitely propels the board forward faster. This extra bump in wattage also gave it some extra grunt and stamina. The board also has the same side lights that the Blink Lite had but has also added a front headlamp and a red taillight.īoth boards have the same one wheel hub motor concept for power, but, instead of that motor being a 450W motor with an integrated battery in it, they’ve moved the battery under the board and bumped up the watts in the motor to 600. Where as the Blink Lite was slightly terrifying on NYC streets at speed–with you constantly fearing gravel or even large gaps in the sidewalk thanks to its tiny, “normal” skateboard wheels and short-board build–the Blink S has much larger and more solid feeling wheels and a much wider deck. And frankly, its in an entirely different category compared to the original Blink Lite.
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This is the Blink S, which is the new lower tiered model (besides the aforementioned Blink Lite). (This perk is no longer included but you can snag an extra charger for $50 if you wanted to have a similar charging setup.) Turns out I was sent the stretch goal version of their Indiegogo campaign which included one charger for work and one for the office to extend the 45 min ride time that you get per charge and a backpack. Moving on to the clearly skateboard-shaped box, I tore it open and pulled out the board, which we’ll get to in a sec, and found a remote, information packets that people like us just don’t read, and not one, but two chargers.