Electric Bike

Karl Gesslein / January 15, 2017 One of my great pleasures in life in picking titles for my articles that are particularly obnoxious and watching the posts show up on my Google news feed. There is something incredibly subversive about writing really down to earth and ‘in your face articles’ that call it like it is. I’ve ridden about 3 dozen ‘factory’ built ebikes in the last 2 1/2 years and in all honesty they have all pretty much been total crap. I’m not going to go into why I think ebike companies are churning out these crappy, low power, hub motor ebikes but I’ll tell...

Karl Gesslein / April 10, 2018 When I was a child I was completely obsessed with Lego. I spent most of my free waking hours in my youth sitting on the floor for hours at a time building anything I could imagine. I distinctly remember one of my creations was an AWD motorcycle with a complex drive system that engaged the front and rear wheels together so that they would spin at the same rate while the fork still swung back and forth. This motorcycle even had a little tiny one cylinder engine with a piston that went up and down. I remember...

Karl Gesslein / January 28, 2015 Nothing is worse that riding in your favorite stomping grounds and having another rider stop you and start harassing you about biking with a motor. The easiest way to avoid confrontations with other bikers,hikers,xc skiers and park rangers is stealth. See how this Borix X9 just blends into it’s own shadow. That’s the power of Black, baby. A stealth ebike does not look at all like an ebike with a cursory inspection. Only if someone is up close and checking it out would they even know that it was electric at all. Here are the rules...

Karl Gesslein / April 19, 2015 I’ve suffered from almost 30 concussions in my life as well as being hit by 3 cars, a deer, and a dog while biking. Working as an EMT for 6 years I saw a lot of auto accidents as well as bicycle\auto accidents which almost never ended well for the bicyclist. This is a culmination of some of the things I have learned the hard way.   Be wary of bare battery wires When cutting, crimping or soldering live battery wires ONLY DO ONE WIRE AT A TIME. If you cut and strip both wires you...

Karl Gesslein / April 15, 2015 The last 2 weeks I traveled south and got to ride in a handful of states with my Sun Kiss single speed fat ebike. I haven’t actually done much trailriding with electric fatbikes other than in snow and was actually amazed at the difference. I grabbed my massive 20 lb 22Ah battery today and rode for 3 hours straight in the spring slop switching back and forth between bikes to see which I liked better, the results really surprised me. Which bike is more fun in the muddy crap that my favorite trails have turned into?   My full suspension bike...