Board number 100 just shipped. Somewhere out there, it's being unboxed and ridden for the first time. One hundred individually numbered machines, each with an engraved chassis plaque — a groundbreaking design, never to be repeated. The Mach One is sold out. And with that, a chapter of Radium Performance comes to a close.
We thought this moment deserved more than an announcement. It deserves the full story.
Why We Built It
It started with an addiction.
If you've ever ridden a high-performance electric skateboard — really ridden one, pushed it, trusted it — then you know the feeling. Adrenaline on tap. A kind of freedom that's hard to explain to anyone who hasn't felt it. We were hooked, and we wanted more of it.
The problem was the industry wasn't delivering. Most boards on the market were built around push board technology that hadn't fundamentally changed in over twenty years. Brands were copying each other's copies, making cosmetic improvements, and calling it progress. The hardware wasn't designed for the demands of electric riding — it was adapted from something else and marketed as if it wasn't.
So we decided to build it ourselves. We didn't have engineering degrees or a war chest from a previous venture — just a backyard workshop, and a conviction that it could be done better. It took a full year just to produce the first successful carbon fibre parts. We learned manufacturing, composites, electronics, and suspension design from scratch, failing repeatedly before getting it right.
What emerged from that process was something designed from the ground up around the riding experience: a purpose-built carbon fibre chassis, a suspension system unlike anything in the industry, and a torque vectoring system that no one else had attempted (now patented). There were many times we wanted to throw in the towel, and we certainly didn't make things easy for ourselves, but blind passion and the support of the core eskate community kept us in the game.
How We Got Here
Six years that tested everything we had.
Four years of design and development. A full year of manufacturing. Another year shipping boards to riders across the globe. Three founders, self-funded, learning manufacturing at scale for the first time, solving problems nobody had written a manual for.
Just before official production started, we identified a self-discharge issue. Without a fix, most Mach Ones would have arrived with a permanently dead battery after long shipping transits. The only way out was to develop a high-power MOSFET anti-spark switch system from scratch. We designed, prototyped, validated, and got it into production in record time, pushing the delivery date out by 30 days. But every board left the factory with the problem already solved.
After boards were in the field, an electrostatic discharge issue surfaced affecting ESCs and motors. We dug into the root cause, engineered an ESD protection system, and shipped a retrofit kit to every customer. The instructions were clear enough that every rider was able to fit it themselves. Problem found, fixed, and closed — without a single board needing to come back.
One New York rider had a car roll straight over his Mach One. The board lifted the car as it passed, and he rode it away without damage.
This is what it looks like when a small team refuses to cut corners in an industry that normalises it. Every delay, every extra cost, every late night — it was always about getting it right.
What We've Built
One hundred boards. Seventeen countries.
Australia, the United States, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, Poland, Czechia, South Korea, Belgium, Austria, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Japan, Hong Kong, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Canada.
Before the production run, eleven pre-production Genesis boards proved the platform. One of them — Genesis Mach One #00 — sold at Esk8Con in Las Vegas in 2024 for around $13,000 AUD, believed to be the most ever paid for a production electric skateboard.
Dylan Bell, our team rider and product tester, took the Mach One to race podiums across Australia. A Sandy Creek outright win. Third at the AusPEV Nationals. Third and then first at the WA State Championship rounds, currently sitting first overall in the standings. That consistency is as much a testament to the machine as it is to the rider.
In 2024, the Mach One received a Gold Good Design Award — the highest tier of recognition from one of Australia's most respected design institutions. Steven Sun, one of the most credible voices in the global electric skateboard community, listed it among the best boards available in 2026. A board that took four years to develop is still holding its place against everything that has come since.
"The most impressive performance board I've ever ridden."
"You have a connection beneath you like no other board I've ridden in my life."
People who trusted us before we'd proven anything, paid deposits on a board that didn't exist yet, and waited with patience and grace while we got it right. Without them, the Mach One would have stayed on the drawing board.
Why It Matters
The gap between what looks good and what actually is good.
The electric skateboard industry has grown fast. There's more choice than ever, more new releases, more spec sheets that look impressive. But there's a difference between building something that performs on paper and building something that feels alive under your feet. That gap — between what looks good and what actually is good — is exactly why Radium exists. We're not here to chase trends or ship something because the market expects it. We build what we believe in, with the parts and decisions that are right, not the ones that are easy. In a world that rewards whoever markets loudest, we'd rather let the ride speak for itself.
What Comes Next
This chapter is done. Radium is just getting started.
The Mach One production run is complete. The numbers are retired. This exact machine will not be remade.
Something new is being built — informed by everything we learned across six years and ~120 boards. We're not saying much yet. We'll let it speak for itself when it's ready.
This chapter is done. We couldn't be more grateful to every rider, supporter, and believer who made it possible.
– The Radium Performance Team
