I haven’t really tested any road specific fatbike tires other than the Vee Rubber Vee 8, which is only a ‘road tire’ in that it’s pretty much useless for anything else. The Vee 8 competes with the Vee Rubber Mission 4 as my least favorite fat bike tire of all time. The Duro was shipped mounted…
This article goes over some of the highlights of what happened in 2015 and what we can look forward to in 2016 with Electric Fatbikes. Bafang’s BBSHD 1000W middrive kit was released for 68-120mm bottom bracket bikes For the last 2 years the only way to get a BBS02 on most fat bikes (other than ones…
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…
There’s fat bikes and then there is the “what the hell is that?” bikes. The Phat Phuk really deserves a category of its own as the massive 5 inch actual width tires are like nothing else currently on the market. Vee Rubber decided to release a tire so big that it won’t even fit on…
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…
About 9 years ago a video was sent to me that blew me out of the water. It was the Kris Holm Freeride Unicycle video found here. I had never seen anything like it before and was determined to learn how to Mountain Unicycle (Muni) even if it killed me. As I started the long…
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 tired of Surly and Vee-Rubber tires which seem to make up about 90% of my rubber collection (not counting my Trojans but they are all past their expiration date) so I picked up a used Maxxis 120tpi Mammoth on ebay for $50 that had been “installed and ridden” only 3 times. Although the tread…
I have been procrastinating for months about buying a Bluto Front suspension fatbike to convert. When I finally broke down and did this build the results were astounding. The biggest problem I have found with the Bluto fork (review here) is how hard it is to go back to all my other rigid framed bikes…
I’m not a big fan of Vee Rubber tires. The Mission 4 and Vee 8 tires are both at the bottom of my list for tires that I’d recommend to someone I didn’t hate. The Bulldozer 4.7 may make a VeeRubber believer out of me yet. I bought ($90 on ebay) and tested a 120tpi…
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