I’ve ridden a bunch of lower power torque sensing ebikes from the likes of Bosch and Yamaha over the last several years. I’ve always found the power wanting, as most are designed for the Euro 250W market. Some of the newer torque-sensing electric mountain bikes brag about 750W peak power, but with only 450W continuous.…
Last winter I had the pleasure of reviewing a Christini Fat-E BBSHD AWD ebike for about 2 weeks. For those of you who know me, you know I rarely review anything I don’t throw my leg over and thrash in the woods with. I fell in love with the Christini AWD system and told Steve…
I’ve traveled the world and whitewater kayaked off 40′ waterfalls, run hard class 5 rapids backwards on purpose and jump 40 feet in the air regularly when kiteboarding. I can say with some certainty that it takes a lot to really scare me. After 30 minutes on the Lunacycle custom 96v AWD dual Adaptto controller…
Last winter I saw that Kate Leeming was planning on bicycling across Antarctica and her weapon of choice was the SnowShow 2XL PSC (Pure Silica Compound) tire with white treads. Although I had seen many people use the PSC tires on their fatbikes online there was something about having a white treaded tire that put…
I’ve been meaning to try a 1×11 groupset for a while now but I’ve just been too cheap to spend my own money on one only to have it fail on me. Although you can throw a mega granny like the Sunrace 42T granny on a 10-speed setup, inevitably you always end up having issues with…
This is officially my 16th documented ebike build on this site. Sweet sixteen turned out to exceed my every expectation for performance and usability. I decided to throw my beloved new Ultra Max 2500W peak ludicrous drive unit on a crappy old Bikes Direct Sniper full suspension fat bike that I couldn’t give a rat’s ass about.…
One of my pet peeves about the new torque-sensing 1000W Ultra Max drive unit is that there just aren’t that many frames for it available in the states. The original Bafang Max drive which only sported 350W of power has a totally different mounting bracket than the Ultra Max which means you just can’t fit a…
On my latest trip to LA to visit Lunacycle and test the Apex and Apollo ebikes I found a new and unexpected love, the latest version of the Luna Apocalypse scooter. I guess the old 52v 35mph 2WD Luna Scooter was not radical enough so Eric decided to sell a bunch of higher power scooters with…
When I go to the Lunacycle factory I make it a point to ride every ebike I can get my hands on (including one that they were probably building just for you). That’s right, I got my grubby potato chip fingers all over your ebike and rode it up a bunch of stairs and jumped…
Ever since I started getting into ebikes I’ve wanted to build a high power torque sensing ebike. The main problem is that the more power you want to put through your motor, the more sensitive the torque sensing system needs to be. Although the ebike markets of the world are flooded with 250-350 Watt Torque sensing…
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