BMW Street Carver
When BMW introduced their Street Carver in 2001, they proved that
they could make skateboards with the same precision engineering as their
automobiles. The Street Carver is heavier than most skateboards with
its cast-aluminum truck assemblies, wood and fiberglass deck and 110mm
wheels. The most notable features of the board, though, are the pendulum
arms that work against each other to provide you with a much more
stable ride. At $500, the Street Carver was also the world’s most
expensive skateboard at the time.
Exkate X-24
Nowadays that title rightly belongs to the Exkate X-24. The
evolution of this product began when Louis Finkle, an electronics
enthusiast, spent five years creating an electric skateboard with a
wireless remote that actually uses the rider’s own body to send signals
to the board. Since then, Exkate has made a name for themselves with
many permutations of the original electric skateboard.
The most impressive of these, of course, is the X-24. Not only is it
capable of reaching twenty miles per hour in only four seconds, it can
also accommodate a 275 pound rider. The battery charge lasts for roughly
ten miles and can be charged around 400 times. The electronic
skateboard can even break from twenty miles per hour in only thirty
feet.
When it was available, the X-24 could be purchased for just under
$1,000. While it’s currently out of stock, a newer model of the most
expensive skateboard in the world will be available sometime this year.
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