I’d like to start a listing and discussion of FD trench boards and their features.
Here’s the one I really want but the trench is too narrow to allow tactical battery swap. You must unbolt each time. I’ll never do that. Praying they change this. Cmon Josh!
270 Board Co. socal.
Trench Appears wide enough for battery change.
What do you mean by the trench being too narrow? Sorry genuine question - I’m not a FD owner but seen my friends swap batteries over so I have a basic understanding. Doesn’t it only need room for the latch to open?
If you see the videos of this trench design they said they make it this way cause FD will be releasing a new latch system any time soon that will solve this issue. There is no point in releasing a production board that be obsolete in a few weeks/month, Josh Ku works for FD so he has insight on what’s coming. Just wait a bit!
Will be interesting to see what FD come up with, some type of quick release base unit hardware is my guess. Josh has said a wider trench doesn’t help, just increases drag and exactly what your trying to limit by adding a trench.
Appletree is coming out with a trench board soon.
Dale Chapman and Gofoil have been making them for a while.
That’s interesting. Good to know.
The battery opens with latches on the side. You need about an inch of clearance on the side of the battery box to be able to open the latch.
Oh didn’t know those trenches were that tight. Seems like they have something up their sleeves though - I can’t see them making such an ill-informed decision otherwise 