I’ve built dedicated commuters before like Orange Crush and Death Trap 2000, but I wanted to build a fat tire bike cruiser that would easily hit 35mph and still be able to climb any hill with ease. While surfing the internet for the coolest fat bike I could find I stumbled on the Soul Stomper with a Sturmey…
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…
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…
I’ve been waiting for a long time for Santa to deliver me a chainring that wasn’t 558g didn’t look like it was designed to be the primary drive gear of an early 1900’s model T like the crappy ring that Bafang sends you for free with the BBSHD. Eric from Lunacycle.com sent me one of…
There have been several major technology breakthroughs in the last few years with ebikes. Lithium batteries have completely eclipsed all over battery technologies for ebikes due to their light weight and ability to put out massive amounts of power. Neodymium Magnets (also known as rare earth magnets) reached the price point to be used in…
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…
Of the 6 e-bike batteries I’ve bought online, I believe that only 2 of them have actually been shipped quasi-legally. This article is about how your vendor is supposed to ship you batteries and why the often don’t. Eventually, this skirting of the law is going to get the e-bike business into big trouble, but…
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…
I was underwhelmed with the street performance on my Death Trap 2000 road bike build with the BBSHD. The next build I did was my insanely obese tired Phat Phuk which was perfectly representative of America’s Fat Epidemic. The Phat Phuk did remarkably well even with the bad joke that is the 46T steel chainring that…
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