This year has been the year of the BBS02 750W. The end of 2015 is proving to be a very exciting time with Bafang introducing the BBSHD and many of the more powerful 18650 batteries we have been promised this year are finally trickling out into the market. Builders are beginning to realize that with…
In so many ways Bafang’s BBS02 750W drive unit is a dream come true. Almost anyone with very little technical know how can order a drive kit and 48v-52v battery pack and have it installed and running on almost any bike with 2-3 hours of work. Any other mid-drive ebike kit is going to take a…
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about possible improvements to the BBS02 & BBSHD mid drive units from Bafang and decided to organize all my ideas here. The improvements are listed below with a rating between 1 and 10 with 1 being things we can live without and 10 being improvements that they should…
Although I have traveled to over 40 countries in the last 20 years somehow I missed Denmark. Last year I ended up committing myself to the smartest and most beautiful woman I had ever met in the middle of Cayuga Lake with about 150 people on standup paddleboards and kayaks. My partner Thilde also just happens…
I’ve looked at a whole lot of fatbikes for sale in the US and one thing I’ve never seen is a Bluto equipped single speed fatbike. Many newer fatbikes are shipping with a bluto ready tapered headtube which seems to be the emerging standard for fatbike frames. For older frames you might be able to…
When planning and designing an ebike build one of the first questions that a builder needs to ask themselves is how much power do they really need? A perfect build would have enough power to get up the biggest hill in your commute at the speed you want to go uphill at and would also…
Rumors have persisted for more than a year now that Bafang was working on a BBS02 that would be shipped from the factory with support for a 100mm+ fat-bike bottom brackets. I haven’t covered this at all out of respect for the three companies that have spent a lot of time and effort making their own…
Most reputable sellers of any ebike kits will offer you several options when it comes to a throttle. The 6 most common are: Right Thumb Left Thumb Right Half Twist Left Half Twist Right Full Twist Left Full Twist For the uninitiated ebike builder this can be an intimidating choice. I’ve tried all of them and I’ll…
The Sondors Ebike. Here we go. I rode the Sondors Ebike with the throttle pegged down and my first reaction was “Wow! This bike doesn’t totally suck”. The logos and the styling make it look like the latest incarnation of the Batmobile, and it rides like a tank over most everything in its path. Tooling around everyone…
I’ve been a fan of the Canadian company Biktrix since they completed their first kickstarter for the Juggernaut BBS02 powered 750W fatbike in November of 2014. While several other ebike crowd-funding campaigns have made gross exaggerations about the capabilities of their bikes, the Biktrix crew seemed knowledgeable and honest from the start. Their interest in the…
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