Electric Bike

Karl Gesslein / October 5, 2019 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. Bafang has released a new drive unit called the M600 which is designed for the US 750 Watt continuous market and the drive can get 1000W peak. Lunacycle took that drive and shunted the controller effectively almost doubling the peak power...

Karl Gesslein / February 4, 2015 The indiegogo campaign for the Storm has been taking the world by storm. The kickstarter for the first 30 days stalled out at around $90,000 which was over their initial necessary boundary of $75,000 but not by much. Then it went viral. Suddenly it was making almost $500,000 a DAY as it got posted to the Yahoo News feed and many other blogs. They are now up to almost $2,000,000 with no end in sight. How in the world did this happen? If you want one of these for $499 you have to hurry, the offer ends Fri 2/6/14 at...

Karl Gesslein / February 6, 2015 There has been a lot of controversy about the Storm Fatbike Crowdfunding Campaign due to this article on Yahoo questioning the legitimacy of the campaign and the people running it. I was part of this campaign back when it had stalled out at about $80,000. That was before Yahoo starting posting their original article about it into their feed and over 3500 more people signed up pushing the campaign to it’s almost $3 million mark. This has taken myself and many others by complete surprise. Geniuses or conmen? Most of the consensus from the Ebike crowd is these guys are overselling their bike to the...

Karl Gesslein / February 8, 2015 Due to mounting pressure on the internet from articles like this one from Treehugger, The Storm Campaign have made a number of small but very important changes to their website that makes this bike’s specs far more believable. Is it a Real Bike or just a Dream?   1) They have changed the weight from 45lbs (alluding that it was the weight WITH the battery) to 55 lbs with the battery. This puts the bike firmly in the territory that I would expect it to be in with weight. Expect to be able to shave off a few pounds by...

Karl Gesslein / November 23, 2016 When I was a kid the first bike I learned to ride with 2 wheels was a single speed banana seat bicycle with tiny 20-inch wheels. I have fond memories as a child riding it up and down my parent’s road on almost every day I could sneak out of the house. My love affair with bicycles started with that bike and has followed me throughout my entire life. Lunacycle is building and selling a new kind of bike that doesn’t fit into any existing category. It has a BBSHD, a long wheelbase steel frame, monkey hanger...