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Walmart selling ebikes, and why I don’t recommend them
Don’t get me wrong, I buy toilet paper, food, shampoo, and other household items from Walmart, just like millions of other consumers, but…I have some concerns based on my experience, so hear me out....
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Sheer Insanity: How I used a Sur-Ron to plant 500 trees in just one day
So I’ve owned a Sur-Ron Light Bee for about 2 years now. I’ve used it extensively to get around on my 42 acres and it’s become more of a UTV than a recreation bike (my one year review is here). About a...
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Why Lime Bikes are anything but green
Bright green Lime bikes, ebikes and scooters can be found all over many cities in the US. At first I relished the idea of a bicycle, ebike and scooter company that people could easily rent by the hour,...
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Top 10 reasons to build / borrow / steal a fast electric bike
The other day while slumming it on another ebiker’s blog (which I should never, ever do) I stumbled across this article titled “Why you don’t want a superfast Electric Bicycle“. I’m going to spare you...
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Quit your whining : How much ebike motor noise is too much?
I’ve ridden every single ebike I can get my hands on in the last 5 years. So are fast, some are slow, some are big, others are small but one thing that all ebikes have in common is that they are vastly...
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The LMX64, a powerful freeride E-MTB from France
A “freeride” bicycle is used to go up a steep hill, and the hill is so steep that when you start to go downhill, you pretty much don’t need to pedal at all....
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Finally: An article on how to buy an ebike without any ebikes in it
It’s interesting to me how many blogs have done articles on how to buy ebikes, but frequently their articles highlight a bunch of different ebikes that are almost always boring low-end geared-hub...
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Segway Electric Dirt Bike is just a Sur-Ron with bogus range claims
Segway has launched their Indiegogo campaign to market the Sur-Ron Light Bee in the United States. There is a couple of problems for discriminating customers, as what Segway is selling you can already...
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Best Black Friday Ever: You can finally buy a Ludicrous BBSHD without buying...
For the last 3 years, my primary ebikes have all been powered by the Ludicrous 2500W BBSHD mid-drive unit. A good friend of mine found a way to hack the Bafang controller for Lunacycle by shunting it...
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Care and feeding for your high power mid-drive power train
I love mid-drives, just read any article I’ve ever written and if you don’t come away with anything else, you’ll feel my love for high power mid-drives shine through. By a far margin, I feel like the...
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How the California Ebike law has brought fast ebikes into the mainstream
Before California came up with their ebike law it looked like mainstream ebikes in the US were going to stay 750 Watts and speed limited to 20mph forever. There were a handful of companies that were...
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Ebikes are killer for hunting
When I was 14 years old I read ‘Diet for a Small Planet‘ and on Thanksgiving decided I was going to become a vegetarian, much to the chagrin of my old man. After 35 years of harassment, I’m still a...
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How ebikes can transform the van-life experience
I’ve traveled a lot in the last 30 years, probably a little bit too much. I’ve been to 40 countries and for many years would spend 3-6 months of the year ‘on the road’. Most recently my wife and I...
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I just can’t stop: Best brakes for ebikes
Nothing sucks worse than wanting to stop quickly on your ebike and not being able to. In the last 5 years, I’ve tested dozens of different brake systems and developed some pretty strong opinions about...
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Make it last, baby: Best practices for Lithium ebike batteries
If you treat your ebike well, it will last for a very long time. The one part of any ebike that is the most sensitive to temperature, vibration and abuse is the battery. In the last 5 years, I have...
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Carbon, Alloy or Steel: Which is the best for ebike frames?
There are so many ebikes out there on the market right now it’s unbelievable. While most of the ebikes out there are made with alloy frames, there are many with carbon frames and even a sprinkling of...
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How to run your off-grid Tiny House with an Ebike battery
I would label myself as ‘Tiny Curious’ in that I have dabbled in Tiny House building, but I have yet to actually live in one myself. I have spent the last year building a tiny house with my son, and...
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Too Fat or not too Fat, that is the question
When trying to figure out what to buy or build one of the biggest choices you will have to make is what width tires you want. Ebike tires can be anywhere from tiny < 1-inch skinny road tires all the...
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What’s the best choice for an ebike: Full, Front or No suspension?
There are a myriad of choices to make when trying to decide what kind of ebike to buy. One of the first things you should decide is whether you need to look at an ebike with full suspension, front...
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Pow! Top 10 tips for riding your ebike in deep snow
If you are a fun hog like I am you will find nothing more fun than crashing down a snow-covered trail on an electric fat bike. The battery and motor technology have hit a critical point where for...
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