One of the most common emails I get from builders is people needing help trying to select a front chainring size for their ebike build. The whole process of deciding a chainring size for your first mid drive can be a complex and unintuitive process for the uninitiated. Getting the right chainring size has a…
I’ve been waiting for a long time for someone to hit the market with a 36T aftermarket chainring for the BBSHD. The stock 46T steel chainring makes a great Frisbee-From-Hell but you would be certifiably insane to use it on any real ebike build. Lekkie has built a 42T BBSHD chainring that has been around almost…
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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