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Lose Some Weight Fatty : Create An Ebike For All Seasons By Swapping Out Your...
My token-old-person-friend Eric Skalwold sold his BBS02 powered electric fat bike several months ago and has been mercilessly harassing me about what electric fat bike to buy to replace it with for...
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Destroy Everything You Touch : Managing The Repairs On Your Ebike Fleet
The other day I went out to the ebike shed to try to find something to ride. Much to my dismay, every single bike I owed was broken or out of commission. I had let my maintenance issues fall a little...
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5 Reasons You Should Never Ever Bring Your Ebike To Burning Man (Unless It’s...
Burning Man is an annual art festival in the Black Rock desert that draws over 70,000 people and has the highest bicycle per capita ratio of any city in the world Coming off the high of my 11th burn...
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Ebikes Are Not The Spawn Of Satan : Better Get Used To Us, Soon We Will Be...
Two years ago I started writing an article called “Why do they hate us ? Ebikes vs Bikers” but I never finished it. Several weeks ago I stumbled across this article on Singletracks.com entitled “Ebikes...
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Miss Manner’s Guide To Electric Bike Singletrack Etiquette (Don’t Be A Dick)
A week ago I wrote and article waxing philosophic on whether or not pedal powered bicyclists and ebikers could ever live together in harmony. I decided that the perfect followup to that article is one...
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I Dream Of Drifting : Lunacycle’s Totally Insane 52v 20Ah Drift Fat Trike
Sunset on The Strand with a drift trike is something for everyone’s bucket list It’s been a long time since I laughed so hard I cried. In all honesty, it’s never happened on an ebike, but when I tested...
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The Second Coming : Version 2 of the 35+ mph Luna Apocalypse Kick Scooter
On my latest trip to LA to visit Lunacycle and test the Apex and Apollo ebikes I found a new and unexpected love, the latest version of the Luna Apocalypse scooter. I guess the old 52v 35mph 2WD Luna...
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My Achy Breaky Ebike : How Improper Mounting Of A BBSxx Can Cause Premature...
If there is a way to screw something up with mid-drive DIY ebikes, you gotta believe at some point I’ve done it. The newest addition to the long list of stuff that I’ve broken is the chainstay on my...
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The Rear Fathub That Just Refuses To Die : DT Swiss Big Ride 350 197mm
I’ve been insanely busy lately and completely neglecting this blog. The nice folks at Carson Rental loaned me a $120,000 30,000lb bulldozer for a week without ever asking me if I had ever driven a...
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Bzzzzzt : Why Metal Zippers And Male XT60 Connectors Are A Horrible Combination
3 years ago my good friend Laurence showed me a male XT60 connector that had shorted out by hitting something metal in his triangle bag. I had a good laugh at his expense and thought to myself ‘nothing...
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