Looking to buy the Bamboo GTX

Hello,
I am very Interested in buying the Bamboo GTX. My only concern is the stories that I have been reading online as far as the board suddenly stopping at high speeds and having connection issues. Is this still a common occurrence? Has Evolved remedied these issues? Of all the boards that I have researched and been looking at, they GTX seems to fulfill all my needs. Plus is looks cool AF!!!!
I have been an avid skateboarder and longboarder for the past 3 decades and finally took the plunge into electric skateboarding. What a life changer!!! I recently bought a Halo board and I knew immediately that this is a hobby that I will continue doing until I can no longer walk! However, the Halo is subpar and really hurts my feet LOL! So I am really considering the GTX as a potential upgrade.
I would really appreciate any input and advice.
Thanks

 

I would like to know this too.

 

I have been riding the GTX with the R2 remote for a few months now. I do not believe the remote has any connection issues once properly paired and calibrated. I thought it might at first as I did a superman off the front of the board the first week I had it when the board came to sudden halt. Here is what I have concluded since - the remote has a bit of design issue, but not a connection issue. The design issue is that the motion to activate the brake on the R2 remote is the exact action as activating the throttle on almost every other remote out there. That causes muscle memory confusion when going between other remotes and the R2. I was reminded of this just yesterday when test riding a friend's KalyNYC board with the Nano remote. I went to apply the brake on his board and instead found myself accelerating hard. This is because my muscle memory is now used to the R2 and pushing forward with my thumb caused me to accelerate with a standard remote. I am reasonably confident this is what caused my board to stop suddenly the first week I had it. I tried to accelerate and muscle memory dictated pushing my thumb forward (I was coming from a board with a scroll wheel remote) - But with the R2 remote that caused the brakes to lock up hard. I have a strong suspicion this is the source of most of these incidents. It is not an issue if you stick with the R2 remote, but can cause a problem if switching between the R2 remote and more common remote layouts. There are a few other quirks to be aware of such as the board will auto-shut off after a few minutes if there is no commands sent from the remote. This can make you think the connection has dropped, but that is not the issue. I found this out the hard way on the first group ride when everyone was standing around for 10 minutes bullshitting around before we took off. I jumped on my board, hit the throttle and . . . . nothing. The board had auto-shut off. I thought the connection had dropped because the remote was still on. Once over the learning curve - the GTX and R2 have been completely reliable.

The main problem with the GTX (and all the other Evolves) is that the batteries don't perform well over time - and especially in the cold. They do not hold voltage and performance suffers.

 

Good info! Thanks Slybarman.

 

My R2 remote and Bamboo GT has been flawless apart from one incident. I was limping home on Eco after a long ride and the board was showing 10-20%, I decided to see how fast it would go anyway on a low battery. After a few hundred yards it locked up and I did a superman. Kind of blame myself for it in a way because I should have just took it easy but that's the only circumstance it has given me a problem. I rode easy for a few weeks after that!

 

Thanks for sharing your experience fs996.
I ended up buying a GTX simply because it was on sale and I've never tried it.
I rode a GT carbon over the summer and it was fantastic (it happened to be the board I was really holding out for a bit of a price cut, but decided screw it maybe another time). I plan to ride the hell out of the GTX during the trial and see if there are any issues. I'm a little worried that it will be perfect for 3-6 months down the line, and then just stop working as others have claimed (or battery sag, not hold a charge, locking up etc), however, I'm hopeful I will have a board that will last at least a year or more. Who knows by that time mbs might have their electric mountainboard available.

 

Some of my mates are on stock GTX's and doing fine a year on. I'm sure the battery performance is 90-90% of what it was when new but they are still able to go much further than me on my GT and having no problems in doing so.