Chargeride
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Anyone follow ebikguy, he's claiming 103mph on his 72v DIY fatbike.
103mph on fat tires
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linklemming
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Next darwin award
Jeremy McCreary
Bought it anyway
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- USA
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- Carlsbad, CA
Heck, I can beat that by a long shot. Beach ride last March, PAS 2/9, faithfully recorded by RideWithGPS:
That's Mach 12, baby!
That's Mach 12, baby!
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Chargeride
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It's not my thing, he's a nice enthusiastic guy, but with zero safety awareness.
Speed and distance are just not my way forward for electric vehicles, a cheap ice bike could easily do that and legally.
To me ebikes are stealth, clean and access.
He welded that frame himself by the way..100mph on fat tyres...lol.
Speed and distance are just not my way forward for electric vehicles, a cheap ice bike could easily do that and legally.
To me ebikes are stealth, clean and access.
He welded that frame himself by the way..100mph on fat tyres...lol.
Stefan Mikes
Gravel e-biker
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- Europe
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- Mazovia, PL
When I see similar people around here, they make me want puke. I could see a guy like that zooming at enormous speed against the traffic at night among big trucks clogged in a traffic jam. The hope is he would kill himself before doing any harm to other people.
Once, we stopped on a group gravel ride to wait for stragglers. Out of nothing, a Fast'n'Furious like yours appeared and passed us at a very high speed. A joker buddy of mine yelled 'Stefan! A friend of yours!' to which I growled 'He would never be a friend of mine'.
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jabberwocky
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Its mildly impressive from a DIY standpoint, but lets not pretend its an ebike. Its a DIY emoto. Cool if thats your thing I guess. I didn't see him ripping bike paths or anything, just riding on the road. Hes super excited about the speed he achieved but it doesn't really look like he did anything special; just coupled a huge hub motor to a high voltage battery and a large esc/controller.
I would not personally trust any bicycle component at those speeds. I did note he said hes running HEB Allscape tires, which look like a sort of hybrid bicycle/motorcycle tires. He also has a DH fork with what looks like a motorcycle steering damper attached. The whole thing looks janky as hell. The esc looks like its zip tied to the underside of the downtube (exactly where the front tire would kick debris if you hit any).
For the speed runs he was wearing a full face with sweatpants and zero armor, which seems idiotic in the extreme. Motorcycle riders survive going down at over 100mph all the time with proper gear. Sweatpants, tennis shoes, a tshirt and no gloves is not proper gear. The world needs organ donors I guess.
I would not personally trust any bicycle component at those speeds. I did note he said hes running HEB Allscape tires, which look like a sort of hybrid bicycle/motorcycle tires. He also has a DH fork with what looks like a motorcycle steering damper attached. The whole thing looks janky as hell. The esc looks like its zip tied to the underside of the downtube (exactly where the front tire would kick debris if you hit any).
For the speed runs he was wearing a full face with sweatpants and zero armor, which seems idiotic in the extreme. Motorcycle riders survive going down at over 100mph all the time with proper gear. Sweatpants, tennis shoes, a tshirt and no gloves is not proper gear. The world needs organ donors I guess.
DaveMatthews
Dave's not here. Cheating since 2018
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- Canada
I don't even like going over 55kmh downhill on mine.
Stefan Mikes
Gravel e-biker
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- Europe
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- Mazovia, PL
Did you see that Grin Technologies video Dave? The guy there said you were assisted with several kW of gravity assistance on descents!
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DaveMatthews
Dave's not here. Cheating since 2018
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- Canada
Can't say I saw a Grin video, and certainly not one with me in it!
Actually, I just looked and saw my max speed downhill was 63.6 kmh in North Van this summer... That was quite uncomfortable!
Chargeride
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Cant be bothered with an other thread.
These couple of wideboys with a clickbait title
Brand new top end legal ebike in the desert, it didn't explode, but fell out of the frame and slammed the rider to a halt, I don't know if he's just exaggerating, but I'm thinking of it digging into the sand maybe, or he just rode over it
I presume not clicked in properly.
Is it possible for a dropped battery to act like an anchor?
It's hard to see what actually happened, it might just be invented for the camera
These couple of wideboys with a clickbait title
Brand new top end legal ebike in the desert, it didn't explode, but fell out of the frame and slammed the rider to a halt, I don't know if he's just exaggerating, but I'm thinking of it digging into the sand maybe, or he just rode over it
I presume not clicked in properly.
Is it possible for a dropped battery to act like an anchor?
It's hard to see what actually happened, it might just be invented for the camera
Stefan Mikes
Gravel e-biker
- Region
- Europe
- City
- Mazovia, PL
mschwett
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- USA
nice bike and seems like a very nice place to ride! mtb is not my jam at all but if i was there, i'd ride that.
Old-tool-guy
Member
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- USA
Only if the wires are strong enough.
JRA
Well-Known Member
I doubt there were any wires directly connected to the battery as internal battery type bikes use some sort of pin adapter for the connection. More likely when the battery fell out it went in front of the rear tire. At least it didn't ruin his day! The "battery explodes" in the title was click bait.
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