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Generally, a skateboard is a type of sports equipment or toy used primarily for the activity of skateboarding, It usually consists of a specially designed Maplewood board combined with a polyurethane coating used for making smoother slides and stronger durability.
Typically, skateboards are equipped with steering mechanisms known as trucks. The trucks are mounted on the underside of a skateboard opposite to each other, one in the front and one, in the rear. Each truck carries two wheels, one at. each end of the truck's axle. Most skateboards are sold as separate elements, namely the deck, trucks, and wheels. These elements are assembled. together with a few accessories, by either the buyer or the retail seller.
Practically all trucks for skateboards, whether for serious competitive sport or pleasure use, comprise a mounting plate, known as a base plate, for bolting to the underside of the deck, a socket which may contain a bearing bush or liner and is formed in a block known as a yoke molded integrally with the base plate and depending therefrom as an angled projection, and a little spindle arm known as a hanger which is provided with a fixed axle for rotatably mounting one of the wheels at each end, The wheels of the skateboard are suspended in pairs from the underside of the deck by means of the trucks.
Typically in operation, the skateboard is moved by pushing with one foot while the other remains on the board, or by pumping one's legs in structures such as a bowl or half pipe. A skateboard can also be used by simply standing on the deck while on a downward slope and allowing gravity to propel the board and rider.
Other proposals have involved skateboards. The problem with these skateboards is that they do not magnify the force applied around the hose, and they are not self-powered. Also, the deck does not create a wave-like riding sensation. Even though the above cited skateboards meets some of the needs of the market, a bifurcated spring-tethered electric skateboard. The skateboard is bifurcated into a front deck and rear deck with each deck having independently powered trucks and wheels; whereby the skateboard has a mounted power source, generating electrical power for a motor that is transmitted to the wheels; whereby the skateboard also provides a controller that controls the speed of the motor, and thereby the wheels, is still desired.