267 Watt Hours - It's Arrived

This battery is beefy and heavy compared to the original 99 Watt-hour battery. 

I liked this ominous sticker so much I moved it to the underside of my board to remind me how dangerous this goddamn thing is. It's good to remember and respect the thing.

It's not pregnant. This thing is chunky - a nice word for fat. Speaking of which, I'm going to be going on a diet experiment in the next few days. Once I get my blender, I'll be having veggies and some fruit for lunch and breakfast to see how I do. I'm hoping I can lose a few pounds that I've gained over the winter time. (Maybe 10 pounds?). Overall this battery was easy to install. They gave you an allen key wrench, a cool skate key which had a small 1-phillips and a recessed skate nut. It wasn't useful in changing the battery. Instead I used my quality socket wrench and allen key, coupled with some pliers to hold one of the bolts near the wheels tight. The battery can with 34% charged and took about 90 minutes to charge up. The weather is far to wet outside to ride on it yet - maybe next week if it goes well.

I was impressed with the box they shipped it in, quite a nice surprise. They even threw in 2 free boosted stickers. I put one on my skateboard, I haven't thought of where to put the other one yet.

I don't know what I'll do with the smaller spare battery. I guess I'll keep it as an emergency spare, just in case this massive battery fails. Eventually I could see myself ripping it open, and adding the capacity to the board using a makeshift adapter. But that's another story.