I've got another interview from The Sea Otter Classic for you
This time from a company called Christini.
Now they make an all-wheel drive bicycle and electric bike they actually made all-wheel drive
motorcycles as well they've been around for quite a few years the ebike part of
the company however is a little bit newer and may not be something that you've seen before.
If you're thinking all-wheel drive that's cool I've seen all-wheel drive bikes before
I promise you if you've never heard of Christini you haven't seen an all-wheel drive bike like this
Normally for an all-wheel drive bike, for example, like The Bronco that we have.
You have a hub motor in the rear wheel a hub motor in the front wheel.
The UBCO 2x2 has a hub motor in the rear a hub motor in the front.
And there's other brands out there that are known for their
dual motor bikes, but that's not how Christini works.
You've actually got a mid-drive powering both the front and rear wheels and it's even a
little bit more intelligent and smarter than that more like a traction control.
But I'm gonna let the man himself tell you all about it.
I haven't seen all the bikes in person but I know what they are yeah but I guess give it
give us the sales pitch sales picture all right so they're one of a kind yeah they are one of a kind
for sure and it's um the tech's not new we've been doing this almost 20 years so it's tried and true.
This this bike right here is our Fat Five
Ultra so we're running these are five inch and
we can even do out to the two XL so super wide tires for like the snow and things like that.
Okay it's all-wheel drive we call it a traction control to avoid the confusion
of like people thinking that it's just powering the front and what I mean by that is it does a
one-wheel clutching system in the front so you're really running rear wheel and the ratio
is 92 percent basically it's 0.921 so they're not spinning the same speed so as long as you
have traction you're just pushing this front wheel just like a normal bike okay second the rear slips
it powers the front or the opposite of that is if the um the front you're going downhill and
the front starts to wash the rear's going to push it so you have some control around the corners so
in this situation you can you can run the bike as a normal bike you can disengage shift on the fly
and there's a little switch on the handlebars here and then it's in all-wheel drive and here we go
Super cool.
So there you go that's kind of the rundown we're running the Bafang Ultra Motor yeah
we're driving the rear wheel components standard hubs in the rear we make our own
front hub we make our own fork components internals on this bike are rock shocks
35 millimeter so we got a nice fat fork not many people have that and we also do MRP so we're using
production internals for serviceability and then we have to make the externals to run all our
guts so you've got this one right we got a so we've got a full range we've got the pedal 27.5
plus these are smaller tires but we can run up to a 29 platform um we've got that's a
fat four that's a four inch and that's kind of an all-around versatile because 177 rear hub so you
could run summer 29 inch wheel set and then snow if you want that's the standard pedal Fat Five.
And we got a lot of snow bike guys love this thing.
If you're crazy enough to ride in the snow nothing wrong with more traction so there you go
absolutely this here is a 27.5 plus um or 29 with ultra drive so this is a standard boost spacing
running a boost front and then actually we're just finishing up our full suspension which will have a
vertical design and it's going to look similar to this and that this will be a telescoping section
the front's already telescope for the suspension you can see on this underneath that boot that goes
up and down with the spline grease spine system so yep yeah there's a lot of a lot of different
moving parts there are there are a lot of things and everybody's like oh there's so much stuff but
then people forget that their derailleur has so many little things going on we're really just
basic gearing the head tube you never have to touch inside you can see the gears inside here
we have it uncovered there's some grease and stuff there's a cap that goes over that that's cool um
but maintenance wise you just got to keep it clean and lubed just like your chain and in general the
drive train the gear rear gear is the only one that really ever wears out the front will last
pretty much the life of the bike and that usually lasts longer than the cassette anyways so
okay you're gonna get a lot of life and it'll cost less than a GX cassette anyway.
So you're not you're not getting into all this crazy maintenance it's like
basic stuff keep it clean and it's going to last you know a long time.
We got a couple guys have had we've been doing a long time but we have some ebike guys who have
several thousand miles on their bikes and haven't done any drivetrain stuff.
So yeah which that's like something like this is running a lot of power through it yeah a lot of
power and it it's a function of maintenance you can also have like the military the Special Ops
have a bunch of these and they crush them every operation it's like they just throw them down
and don't do anything it's like and they need a lot of babysitting but that's what they do.
Something that didn't get on the interview but we did talk about at the show was where the bikes are
made now you're getting a lot of components of course from overseas but all of the final
assembly is done here in the US and the bikes are basically custom made for each customer
so if you want one of these bikes they will build it specifically
for you they will paint it the color that you want it painted very customized very one-on-one.
Pretty cool company.
A lot of assembly done here in the US which is unique
and I think for what you're getting the prices are actually very reasonable so more footage
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