For most people using the PAS system on the BBS02 they have had to get used to just barely pulling in the front brake (enough for the motor to disengage) in order to up shift without putting serious strain on their chain and risking breakage. Paul from em3ev is now selling a Giant Green Button™…
For information on the programming parameters and what they do you should check out The Hackers Guide to Programming the BBS02 located here. UPDATE: The BBSHD is programmed in the exact same way with the same software as the BBS02. Just make sure you set the Limited Current (Amps) to 30 not 25 which is…
One of the biggest problems with Electric Fatbiking is deep snow. Too often your bike will dig in and down into the powder and you are stuck trying to wedge your bike out of the snow to get going again. When you are cruising fast and the front wheel slips off the trail and into…
I’ve been procrastinating about doing this post for a while now because I honestly feel like hub motors have no place at all on trail-riding fat-bikes except maybe as the front wheel of an AWD ebike. The wheels are way too big and the torque is far to limited to be of any use at…
I’ve built a couple of AWD fatbikes out of my Boris X9 donorbike that I bought for $700 on BikeIsland.com, all have been something of a disappointment. I have to admit that this current build firmly joins my other AWD builds in the ‘disappointing’ category. It is a startling contrast to have a MAC motor and a…
When you’re going over 20 mph in the woods and you slam on the brakes you want to stop as quickly as you possibly can. Most fat bikes that cost <$600 have what I call ‘Brake Shaped Objects’ (BSO) mounted on the frame. These ‘BSO’ look like brakes but don’t work very well at all. The…
I built an electric fatbike out of a $499 Bullseye Monster from Bikes Direct several months ago but it took me this long to really get it working right. Initially I had a lot of problems with the drive train skipping and the chain dislodging and getting jammed between the chainwheel and the adapter. After replacing…
About 8 years ago I got tired of having numb hands all the time riding single track with a hard tail 29er. I started pouring through the reviews on mtbr.com (a totally awesome site) for handgrips. The ones that seemed to really shine were the ESI Racers Edge (50g/$15) closed cell foam handgrips.
After countless insults, hate-mail, getting run off the Storm Usergroup Facebook page and working really hard at NOT getting post-banned I’ve finally decided to stop writing about the Sondors Ebike controversy. Congratulations, you win! I got a refund, I no longer care what happens from this point forward. Unless I get legal notification in the…
I published an article several days ago about whether there should be more federal regulation or private insurance in the crowd-funding world found here. That same day the Sondors Ebike campaign announced that they would be offering perk insurance for people’s ebike perks. This is quite possibly the most questionable services I have ever seen offered…
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