There sure are a lot of opinions out there about how and where to charge your ebike battery when on the road. There are two schools of thought out there. The respectable, considerate types will ask permission before they plug in anywhere in the hopes that people will say yes to their request (they almost always…
The blog has been quiet for a while as my life has gotten pulled in a lot of different directions. The sad truth of the matter is that I haven’t laid my paws on anything worth writing about for some time now. After riding the 6000W Ascent Tangent everything else feels woefully underpowered. All that changed…
When I was a kid the first bike I learned to ride with 2 wheels was a single speed banana seat bicycle with tiny 20-inch wheels. I have fond memories as a child riding it up and down my parent’s road on almost every day I could sneak out of the house. My love affair…
I’ve been vacationing with Lunacycle in LA to try to escape the pre-winter New York blues. In the back of my head I was hoping to end up riding some cool new bikes, and getting inspired to write some more articles. I met a good friend of Eric’s named Curt who had custom machined a…
You have no idea how hard it has been to be quiet about secretly testing the 50 Amp custom controller for the BBSHD for the last 6 months. Every single person that has test driven my ebike has two questions. How much and where can I get one? Well after 6 months I finally have…
Over the past couple of months I’ve gotten my hands on the 3000W Astro 3210 based Tangent Ascent as well as the 6000W Astro 3220 version. These mid drive units are built using a cycloidal gear with massive 40:1 or 20:1 reductions. I can say in no uncertain terms that the Tangent Ascent is completely…
For a long time I’ve wanted to build the ultimate snow machine. This fat bike would have an insanely powerful motor and no suspension components whatsoever. I wanted the power to be harnessed with a Nexus 3 speed IGH which would allow it to plow though a foot of heavy snow or go 40+ mph…
It’s not winter yet, but as summer comes to a close and I start thinking about wintertime coming there is something that you hardcore winter riders may want to do. I’ve ridden electric fat bikes in the snow for several years now and because of all the problems I’ve had with frozen derailleurs, brakes and…
With the introduction of the BBSHD, I had expected that the BBS02 had reached the end of its product lifecycle and would be quietly retired away. To my surprise, Bafang did a complete redesign of the BBS02 without telling any of its US based dealers what they were doing and released it without any fanfare. The…
When the Panasonic GA cells came out I got really excited, so excited in fact that I purchased 100 of them to build into a 7P14S pack in my spare time. Months went by and the batteries just stared at me from under the desk wishing that I would put them to good use. I…
ElectricBike-Blog.com 