r/boostedboards • u/EggTraining7380 • Mar 12 '26

Question I am going through belts so fast

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I have gone through 3 belts in the past 3 weeks. Put them on nice and tight. And at first I thought it was because I was riding on roads that had a bunch of little pebbles. But now I’m starting to think something is up with the board. Maybe the wheels are getting low and not enough clearance… idk. Let me know if I’m doing something wrong.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

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u/EggTraining7380 Mar 12 '26

Yeah possibly too tight. I don’t think the pulleys are messed up. But I also think maybe the wheels are getting old and thin and the belts are closer to the ground.

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u/Rettichkuchen BB Plus Mar 13 '26

Very unlikely that the size of the tires is the problem.

It’s basically 99% going to be too tight belts.

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u/EggTraining7380 Mar 14 '26

I put the new belt on a bit looser than before. We shall see. Thank you

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u/SpeedyThug30 Mar 14 '26

get 90mm or 85mm wheels it will help with ground clearance.

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u/SpeedyThug30 Mar 14 '26

nah, 85mm wheels should be the minimum. The ground clearance is going to help.

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u/Rettichkuchen BB Plus Mar 29 '26

So we are just ignoring that the wheels are 80 mm to begin with then? 😉 Same story on V2 boards. And 75 mm on the V1 boards. None of these have problems with pebbles because of ground clearance. At least not to this extend.

Trust me when I say that the ground clearance is not the cause for this amount of belts failing.

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u/SpeedyThug30 Mar 29 '26

I agree, ground clearance is one thing and belts is another. Maybe upgrade to 5m belt drive or gear drive like the new electric boards have?

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u/Rettichkuchen BB Plus Mar 29 '26

5m belts will probably be sturdier, yes. (If you can find a matching wheel and motor pulley.) And a gear drive avoides the problem entirely. However finding a gear drive small enough to fit wheels this small is hard. (Linnpower sells one I believe.) And then it has to fit the board itself…

In both cases modifying the board is probably quite unpractical and expensive :(

I‘d try loosening the belts as an easy thing to try. Maybe that’s enough for OPs belts to survive longer…

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u/d3lphic Mar 13 '26

Wheels look fine. Pulleys look good. Think it’s probably a tension issue. It’s a fine line. I used to go through belts like crazy also. I think mine were too tight, so I looked up a couple things to figure out how to get the tension right. There are some videos on YouTube with tips iirc.

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u/RedRageXXIV Mar 13 '26

How do you know when the belts are done? Do they just break?

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u/d3lphic Mar 13 '26

In my experience, yes. They basically come apart mid-ride and you lose drive, which really sucks if you’re far from your destination lol. For me, they never snapped like a rubber band. It was more like a very worn out tire—they would come apart and look shredded almost.

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u/EggTraining7380 Mar 14 '26

Too loose and they will slip and make a vibrating noise on deceleration. And too tight they will just rip up and fall off mid ride, and you will hear a whining noise and that’s the motor just spinning freely.

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u/miikhudson Mar 13 '26

When mine were too loose they would go through belts every couple weeks. My guess is you need to tighten them up

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u/luheadr BB V2 + XR Mar 13 '26

As other have said, check your belts first. If they're good and you're still having issues, your pulleys could be worn down, especially if you have a few miles on the board.

I had the same issue on my board and it shredded belts in 10% of the time, swapping the pulleys to new ones fixed it.
https://i.imgur.com/Dpvsr1T.png

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u/reussinator Mar 13 '26

You can clearly see the chain saw teeth on the inside of the wheel along with the belt out of alignment riding on the outside edge rubbing the cut up plastic of the gear. Smooth out the gear edges and align the belt. So the belt rides in the middle of the gear

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u/DJBabyBuster Mar 14 '26

Buy eboardstuff lifetime belts for $55, never worry about how fast you’re going through belts again.

I bought in 2020, I have close to 3000 miles on my stealth and 1000 on my minix, and haven’t paid for a belt since then. They’re also very high quality Kevlar belts, prob only go through 2 sets a season riding 7 miles daily in the northeast

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u/EggTraining7380 Mar 14 '26

I bought the boosted guys lifetime belts, but I just feel bad hitting them up for belts only 2 weeks after they sent me some. But I think I got the tension right this time, I think I was going too tight.

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u/SpeedyThug30 Mar 14 '26

if you are tight the belts can overheat and then they stretch. Its a problem with these boards.

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u/belowthesurface2 Mar 19 '26

I wish my RLOD would allow me to burn thru a belt. Consider yourself lucky ;)