Lectric Cycles has just released a 100mm bottom bracket extended axle BBS02 sold under the e-Rad brand under this link here. The high power 750W nominal drive unit is selling for $1200 which is $99 less than Doug’s 100mm BBS02 drive system over at California Ebike. The e-Rad system comes with a lot of extra goodies for no extra…
Nuvinci is all the rage lately, and it seems to be a good solution to dealing with fat tires that tend to rub the chain in the lower gears as well as the incessant chain jumps & breakage that comes with shifting a mid-drive under load. Two weeks ago Fallbrook (Nuvinci) announced the release of a…
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…
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.
I’ve been riding an average of 90 minutes a day almost every day this season in the snow. Most of the time it is in powder that is 4-6″ deep. The snow at my wife’s house is over 2.5 feet deep now and impossible to ride on. I can still ride on snowmobile tracks and…
Several months ago I started looking seriously at creating ‘the ultimate fatbike’. I knew it had to be 2 Wheel Drive and I knew it had to be full suspension, but I had no idea where to start. Once I saw the Quigley Full suspension fatbike from Bikes Direct I fell in love. Before Doug’s…
I went for a ride on my newest build and was incredibly happy with the results. This is my third BBS02 fatbike conversion and I have to say it is probably the best yet. Although the donor bike is a single-speed Deadeye Monster, I found that with the proper gears in the front and the…
My partner and I decided to keep our separate houses when we committed to each other last year. Her house is a beautiful timber-framed straw bale design that is located over a mile from the road on a 800 vertical foot driveway. It’s located on a 500-acre land trust and I’ve managed to create some pretty…
I got my Surly Bud 4.8 tire yesterday and took it for a spin. We got close to 12 inches of snow on top of several inches that were already on the ground making it pretty much impossible to ride in the powder with anything but a snowmobile. I decided to just ride in the…
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