Electric Bike Conversion Kit

Karl Gesslein / November 11, 2015 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 almost every factory fat bike in production. What a great idea. If you build it, they will come Massive 5.05″ actual width tires paired with a 1000W nominal 1500W peak electric motor makes the ultimate deep powder bike. This thing is over the top to...

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 Bafang ships with it (don’t worry better chainrings and adapters are on the way). The large wheel diameter of a fat bike and a monster 46T chain wheel assures that you’re always riding in the woods on your main granny gear or one gear down from it if you won’t want to deal with...

Karl Gesslein / November 17, 2018 I broke the frame while thrashing hard on my Aluminum framed Phat Phuk last year so I decided it was probably time to switch to steel. There are several steel framed fatbikes that will fit the 5.05″ SnowShoe 2XL, but the one that I could find the cheapest was a Bikes Direct Lurch NOT currently available for $1099 here. I got mine from Bikeisland.com last year for a mere $750 shipped with some scuff marks and a missing front fork. I got a bunch of take-off front forks from Lunacycle for about $25 each so I was able to build my favorite...

Karl Gesslein / February 11, 2015 So you plunked down your cash for a chance to get your hands on the Storm Electric Fatbike from the Indiegogo campaign. I would start budgeting you money for upgrades now, because I can guarantee you will want to upgrade this bike in pretty short order. The bike is pretty heavy and the motor and battery are pretty small. Storm Ebike – A dirt cheap platform ripe for upgrades UpdateL Lunacycle.com has created a huge area on their website for tons of upgrades for the Sondor’s ebike that are all way cheaper than you’re going to find anywhere...

Karl Gesslein / November 20, 2015 I have spent a lot of time researching IGH on the Internet to try to figure out which one can take the most abuse. Time and again the hub that people mentioned as the toughest was the Nexus 3. There are people who claim to have run several thousand watts through these hubs for sustained periods without any real problems or failures. The most critical thing that I found is to make sure you’re not running too much power and load on them at the same time as you are shifting. This IGH was very light and...