Ever since I started getting into ebikes I’ve wanted to build a high power torque sensing ebike. The main problem is that the more power you want to put through your motor, the more sensitive the torque sensing system needs to be. Although the ebike markets of the world are flooded with 250-350 Watt Torque sensing…
Two years ago I wrote this post about riding Electric Fatbikes in the snow which had a lot of great tips. For the past 2 years I’ve been riding almost every day in the winter on my efatbikes and I’ve learned a few more things in the last 2 years. I’m going to try to add…
The Nuvinci Planetary CVT allows for a bicycle to have an unlimited number of gears within a certain ‘range’. The only problem is that all of the Nuvinci CVTs that are currently on the market are only warrantied with a 250 watt motor, or in the case of the N380 350 watts (as long as it’s…
I’ve been pretty bullish on the Nexus-3 IGH for fat bike builds the last couple of months. The Nexus-3 IGH only adds a little over a pound to the weight of your ebike, but it drastically increases the usable range of your BBS02 or BBSHD motor over a single speed setup. It seems to be…
After much anticipation, my 3000W Cyclone mid drive (available here) arrived from Lunacycle.com last week. This kit was on sale during Black Friday for a ridiculously low, low price of $369 so I did what any self-respecting e-bike addict would do. I borrowed my wife’s credit card while she was sleeping and bought myself a Christmas…
I have spent a lot of time researching IGH on the Internet to try to figure out which one can take the most abuse. Time and again the hub that people mentioned as the toughest was the Nexus 3. There are people who claim to have run several thousand watts through these hubs for sustained…
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…
Nuvinci is all the rage lately, and it seems to be a good solution to dealing with fat tires that tend to rub the chain in the lower gears as well as the incessant chain jumps & breakage that comes with shifting a mid-drive under load. Two weeks ago Fallbrook (Nuvinci) announced the release of a…
Seems like I’ve been getting a lot of emails about the Origin 8 Crawler fatbike with the Nuvinci hub from people wanting to do BBS02 conversions on it. Seems like a decent platform although pretty hefty at a claimed 42lbs, probably for the smallest frame size. 42lbs is the same weight that my singlespeed Deadeye…
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