Mellow Boards

What it does

Like a normal truck, the Mellow Drive can be mounted to any skateboard. Giving you the freedom to choose your favorite deck and recycle it into a full on riding machine. With its compact size it also qualifies as a perfect travel mate.

Independent editorial archive documenting Mellow Boards history, modular electric drive technology, founders, and Kickstarter story from Hamburg.

Exploring the technology, design and story behind Mellow Boards. Before electric skateboards became a crowded category of bolt-on kits and proprietary decks, a small team in Hamburg asked a different question: what if the motor lived inside the wheels, and what if that drive unit could attach to almost any longboard you already owned? That question became Mellow Boards — a company founded in 2015 by Johannes Schewe and Kilian Green, two engineers and riders who wanted urban mobility to feel like board sports rather than like riding a appliance on wheels. The premise was modular from the start. Instead of selling a complete locked-down product, Mellow proposed the Mellow Drive — a…from mellowboards.com

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