Most Expensive Skateboards
Written by: jeremy Filed Under: Electronics, Vehicles on May 13th, 2008
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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I wish it would be available this year! Exkate is lagging behind going through growth challenges of quality control as all thier items (besides the wonderful wood decks) come from China to keep the cost reasonable. However they have yet to get the availability of the new “Altered” line ironed out, promissing a better line of electronics sometime in August of 2008. As far as the X24 is concerned don’t hold your breath as we will be lucky to see anything before 2010 if ever! In the meantime we are left with riding other competitors boards like “E-Glide” which are decent while we wait for the Bigger Motor Boards from “Exkate/Altered” to show back up on the streets…..Ride On!
D X-24 is pretty much a sweet ride… I have 1 n it’s no denyin tho that it could use more graphics…
When will the US makers switch to lithium batteries, and neodymium motors? Exkate and E-Glide are now WAY behind the times on batteries and motors. I can’t figure out why. How hard is it to switch to a new kind of battery??
Please… Limted edition Supreme decks regularly fetch in excess of $1,000. Check out decks painted by artist Jeff Koons: http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/jeff-koons-american,-b.-1954-monkey-train-set–2-m-dz22ipff8j
I have the bmw street carver thing, its not worth that much money
thats not a true skateboard thats just a peice of metal and its useless in the skate world
I have an electric board with pendulum trucks have you seen this before and if so were, i’m trying to find parts for it.
i have a gush skateboard so screw u
crap… utter crap.