I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about possible improvements to the BBS02 & BBSHD mid drive units from Bafang and decided to organize all my ideas here. The improvements are listed below with a rating between 1 and 10 with 1 being things we can live without and 10 being improvements that they should…
Although I have traveled to over 40 countries in the last 20 years somehow I missed Denmark. Last year I ended up committing myself to the smartest and most beautiful woman I had ever met in the middle of Cayuga Lake with about 150 people on standup paddleboards and kayaks. My partner Thilde also just happens…
I’ve looked at a whole lot of fatbikes for sale in the US and one thing I’ve never seen is a Bluto equipped single speed fatbike. Many newer fatbikes are shipping with a bluto ready tapered headtube which seems to be the emerging standard for fatbike frames. For older frames you might be able to…
When planning and designing an ebike build one of the first questions that a builder needs to ask themselves is how much power do they really need? A perfect build would have enough power to get up the biggest hill in your commute at the speed you want to go uphill at and would also…
Rumors have persisted for more than a year now that Bafang was working on a BBS02 that would be shipped from the factory with support for a 100mm+ fat-bike bottom brackets. I haven’t covered this at all out of respect for the three companies that have spent a lot of time and effort making their own…
100 Articles. Wow. I got my first donation of $5 last week to the site, Yay! Since it’s a paypal donation and I can’t frame the $5 bill instead I plan on leaving that $5 in my paypal account forever and NEVER spending it. My total investment in elecrtic-fatbike.com is around $50 which means if I…
About 9 years ago a video was sent to me that blew me out of the water. It was the Kris Holm Freeride Unicycle video found here. I had never seen anything like it before and was determined to learn how to Mountain Unicycle (Muni) even if it killed me. As I started the long…
Fallbrook Tech just released the N380 (press release here) which claims to have more range than the old N360 as well as being able to support a whopping 350W of power (or only 250W if you’re using a cargo bike). The new Continuously Variable transmission is supposed to be the same cost as the N360…
Most reputable sellers of any ebike kits will offer you several options when it comes to a throttle. The 6 most common are: Right Thumb Left Thumb Right Half Twist Left Half Twist Right Full Twist Left Full Twist For the uninitiated ebike builder this can be an intimidating choice. I’ve tried all of them and I’ll…
It took several years for BMC to realize that Nylon planetary gears in their larger geared hubs like the Mac motors could not take the kind of loads that people were dumping into them. Eventually they learned their lesson and switched to using composite gears, but with the BBS02 Bafang still haven’t wised up and made the primary reduction…
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