$450 BOOSTED BOARD REVIEW

this is going to be a comprehensive review of this $1500 electric skateboard versus this four hundred and forty nine dollar skateboard let's begin by comparing Hardware before I go outside for some practical tests of these boards I just want to go over some of the technical specifications looking at their websites they're super super similar so the two sport says it goes 20 miles an hour boosted board says it goes 22 miles an hour this thing says has a seven mile range boosted says it has a six or seven mile range regenerative braking dual motors regenerative braking dual motors honestly even the juice website looks like the boosted board website but for like a side-by-side spec analysis they seem to be very or least advertised as very very similar I did want to do a flex test [Music] all right this is the Flex test on the $1500 boosted board 100% bamboo deck and this is the Flex Omni it's actually for 49 is for the cheap one 599's for the dual motor version of the juice so I take that but I said this is a five hundred and ninety nine dollar board not at $499 board all right this is the Flex test on the bamboo and maple juice board it's actually not that bad I mean it can't flex as much that hits this battery and it's it does feel more rigid but it flexes a lot more than I had expected it to so what Sam go outside now right go through it okay let's joy I'm gonna have Sam carry the extra board because well he offered to it you're cool that alright yeah it's alright if you're wondering why we're carrying the juice board it says like I want to ride it for the first time on camera and in New York City we got to make sure we're somewhere we can like ride safely where there's not too many people we're gonna carry it to a safe less crowded part of the city test it there all right so now we're deep deep on Manhattan's West Side there's like some tell you looking dudes over there that are smoking pot I'm not gonna film them they look a little scary over here we've got the UPS fulfillment center this is a good place to test the board those the guys smoking pot all right this is it this is the first powering up of the juice board great turn on fine no problem all right well I'll tell you this much it's a lot quieter than the boosted board start off with the speed test yeah acceleration test yeah very important detail here NYPD this is talk and washes away with water this is not vandalism because it's temporary please don't show up to my house or office and we're trying to arrest me again okay that's gonna be our starting line there [Music] I'm on the juice board that's the boosted board ready yep one two three okay well this is the initial ride of the juice board and acceleration not great [Music] would that look like in your perspective I didn't even see it you were gone in half a second all right next test is gonna be the high speed to the top speed test how do we even do this I'm gonna go as fast as I can say I'm gonna try and keep up now I'm on the juice board I'm on the cheat board the $449 boy so that's been 10 seconds this is probably top speed come on when it comes to top speed test again the juice board was absolutely creamed by the boosted board now this next test this is going to be the braking test how quickly they stopped my chalk line which is right here which is washable chalk not vandalism remember that it's not vandalism this chalk line right here we're gonna start all the way down there at that truck come full-speed to the line here and then hit the brakes as soon as we hit this line and see how far past the line we go before we stop all right so we did that test five times and quite frankly the brakes on this aren't that bad like Busan weren't definitely stopped so windy stop more aggressively and more effectively but it's not like the acceleration test like I would say that stops in about 15 feet of less distance than this stops kind of amazing this kid just came up on a boost award yeah what's your name Casey how long have you been riding your boosted board I had it since day one try out this juice board just like take it up and down the street let me know your honest thoughts compared to the boosted board all right cool all right so this is the unbiased stranger we met in the street who's a veteran boosted board rider test I think that like what's the rest what about the booster for you can go on reverse this you can't really do that anything like getting on like those little edges when you turning the boost is just like super smooth like this I feel like I kind of like went out of it like just a little bit the verdict here is that I would say that the boosted board is better but I would say it's not bad for you don't think it's bad okay thank you for your help nice to meet you and you sir I promised Sam I'd buy him the smoothie at me help me with this video fair trade alright so the conclusion from the test in the real world is that it's not as bad as I expected but it's nowhere near as good as this but for 500 bucks you're getting a pretty good board this isn't garbage it's not garbage I would not call it pretty good though in conclusion this thing works it's fine I guess it is impressive that they're able to do it for such a low price but just know one thing this is not a boosted board this is a cheap knockoff of a boosted board this this is a toy and if you're fine buying a toy then it's a good value for a toy but it's a little bit like wanting a high-performance sports car like wanting a Ferrari boosted board being the Ferrari instead of getting a Ferrari you get a used old Hyundai used old Hyundai's fine I might even get you from A to B but if you want a hyper if you want a Ferrari don't buy a Hyundai and then paint a dramatically similar logo to the Ferrari on this side and expect that cheap knockoff to perform like a Ferrari also I crashed my new spark drone into a tree in 2008 wait wait don't forget to scratch my channel youtube.com slash Sam Shaffer crash down to the concrete and it didn't break van at youtube-dot-com forward-slash Sam Scheffer nice work DJ I [Music]

Channel: CaseyNeistat

Views: 6,758,527

Rating: 4.6651931 out of 5

Keywords: boosted board, $450 boosted board, cheap boosted board, boosted board vs juiced board, boosted board versus inboard, boosed vs m1

Id: 4zDZ3clucMI

Length: 9min 38sec (578 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 02 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/CorruptPotato]

So it's a good alternative for almost 1/3 of the price. I think he was a little harsh on it

[u/kingofcrob]

i thought he would love juiced board, i mean it has the word juice in it

[u/Jezawan]

He was ridiculously unfair to it in his final conclusion. In the test it seemed a bit slower and took longer to stop than the Boosted, so yeah it's not quite as good overall...but it costs 1 fucking third of the price! It seemed really good considering that. I mean if the Boosted board didn't exist there's no way he would be trashing it this hard.

Edit: However the fact that they went for the exact same look/design as the Boosted was stupid, I guess that might have rubbed Casey the wrong way a bit.

[u/Just-Jayme]

One thing he said in this was super interesting. Paraphrasing, 'This is not vandalism, please don't show up at my house or office and try to arrest me.. Again'.

[u/RiRoRa]

I think it would have been pretty decent if they just went for an own identity rather than trying to look like Boosted Boards Chinese cousin.

It's like when all Androids tried to look like an Iphone before they realized "Oh, shit, people just want decent phones, we can just do our own thing instead".

[u/mistersys]

Despite the less then enthusiastic review, juiced put it on their front page.

http://juicedboards.com/

I think creating products that clearly look like a knockoff is ineffective and a sure way to disappoint. Honestly, I wish they just posted honest specs comparing it to the boosted board in terms of top speed, acceleration, etc. with their own design and identity and then listed the price, many people who don't want to drop 3 Mckinleys would totally take the tradeoffs and purchase.

[u/wookie89]

Says he couldn't safely ride the Juiced board in NYC because of how inferior it is, yet has no issue using a regular foot powered skateboard. Just a wee bit of over exaggerated bias there.

[u/crowlol]

TIL those boards of him are way more expensive than I expected.

[u/protoplast]

This free electric skateboard vs. This free electric skateboard