Before the Bluto Fat Bike suspension fork there was nothing. The only way to get a suspension on that fat tire bike was to get a fatter tire. The Bluto has been plagued by cold weather issues so I generally leave my expensive $500 Bluto Fork in the shed all winter long and only break it…
“Young fool. Only now, at the end, do you understand. Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the dark side. You have paid the price for your lack of vision.” – Emperor Palpatine I wanted to do a mid drive build that would be dirt cheap and still work equally well both on…
Since 15 electric bikes for one person is just not enough, I bought just one more to add to my collection. The newest version of the Deadeye Monster single speed from Bikesdirect ships with fancy 80mm rims (instead of 50mm), 135mm front dropouts (instead of 100mm), 100mm bottom bracket (instead of 68mm) and Mission Command 4…
NuVinci built this really cool CVT in 2015 called the N380 which they say can take a whopping 350 Watts of power (as long as it’s not a cargo bike, then you can only get a measly 250W). I’m not going to waste your time telling you about how this thing works except to say…
This article goes over some of the highlights of what happened in 2015 and what we can look forward to in 2016 with Electric Fatbikes. Bafang’s BBSHD 1000W middrive kit was released for 68-120mm bottom bracket bikes For the last 2 years the only way to get a BBS02 on most fat bikes (other than ones…
I’ve tested a bunch of electric bikes on the beach and I’ve always found the same problem. Ebikes generally work great on the hardpack but get bogged down in soft sand to the point of being basically mostly unusable. I took a trip down to Florida for 2 weeks and dragged along my Phat Phuk build…
Although I was able to shoe-horn a 100mm BBSHD into my Phat Phuk FB 5 2.0 build, owners of the Bikes Direct Lurch bikes are not going to be anywhere near as lucky and will need to order a 120mm kit instead of the 100mm kit even though their BB is only 100mm. This post…
When I first read about the Snow Shoe 2XL on fat-bike.com I fell in love. It made every other fat bike tire on the market look like they were anorexic. There was only one problem, most frames would not accommodate a tire that measured 5.05 inches on a 100mm rim. This tire is marketed as…
There’s fat bikes and then there is the “what the hell is that?” bikes. The Phat Phuk really deserves a category of its own as the massive 5 inch actual width tires are like nothing else currently on the market. Vee Rubber decided to release a tire so big that it won’t even fit on…
The last 2 mornings I’ve gotten up extra early to ride my Sun Kiss build in an inch of powder before the sun came up and melted the snow. Being in the woods in the early morning light has been nothing short of magical and has restoked my personal passion for fatbiking in the snow. I…
