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Hey guys, JohnnyNerdOut here, got another custom ebike build for you. This one is... hot bike...
might have a new king. King in town? King on the block? We got the Northrock XC00 looks like x-coo.
But this is the Costco budget fat bike, which is probably the cheapest fat bike you could
buy right now, or at least the cheapest that I would buy, and we've converted it into an ebike,
high-powered one, 1000 watt mid drive. So if you're new to this channel, I'm JohnnyNerdOut,
I convert bikes into ebikes. I make way better performing, way better value for how much you
spend on this... you get a way better bike versus buying a pre-made bike anywhere out there. So,
if you like stuff like that, check out my other videos. I nerd out on ebike, I even sometimes I
go too far, sometimes I geek out on bikes. Some of my videos should be called "JohnnyGeekOut"
but anyways let's get right into this bike. So if you guys are in the market for a fat bike
and you don't want to spend $1,000, $1,500 bucks you still want something with decent components,
you don't want to buy a rust bucket off of Amazon or Walmart, this bike is going to be on a very
short list. This is the Northrock XC00... I believe is what it is... it's two circles,
could be "oh oh" I don't know. This bike is $450 bucks at Costco, that's about as
cheap as it gets for a fat bike, and this one has Tektro brakes, Shimano derailleurs, it's
not terrible components. Obviously, this bike does not come with these ape hangers on it, we
added that we also added the adjustable stem. The customer wanted these because they wanted a super
custom bike and gotta say, I actually like this. Riding around like this is super comfortable,
makes a big difference. Maybe you don't need to go with something this big, but this is a comfortable
ride. It really was nice and it feels solid. It's got Tektro mechanical disc brakes, they feel a
little spongy, they don't grab... like, they don't... It's not super confidence-inspiring,
but I did my performance test where I did the top speed test and I broke really hard because I only
had like 100 feet to stop, and it actually stopped pretty well. So, they don't feel very good,
but they perform good which is really all I care about. Are they going to save your life,
or are they not? And they will, they work, they're Tectro, so possibly they just need to be
tuned in a little bit, you know, adjusted and just broke in a little bit, but brakes are good. It's
got a Shimano Altus derailleur so it's low-level Shimano, but it's still Shimano and it works
just fine, and it's gonna be just fine forever. You're not gonna really need to update that unless
you're really going for high performance. So, for $450 bucks, you get 26 by 4-inch tires, decent
components, and the bike feels pretty solid. You know it's an entry-level bike because they put
arrows on it which way to point stuff. "Hey! tires should go this way, fork should go this way."
It even says like "front" right here. iI's like, okay, they're not expecting too much of their
customers, but Costco carries it, Costco doesn't usually carry complete junk, and, yeah, this bike
is not complete junk. Okay, let's go into what we did to it. We added the BBS HD motor. This bottom
bracket is 100mm so we put a 120mm bottom bracket on it. You could put a 100mm bottom bracket on
this one, and be just fine, it's your choice, you could put 100 or 120 so if you buy this one
and you're thinking about upgrading it, it's up to you, you can put 120 like we did and you'll have
to buy a 20mm spacer to put on there to make it fit right. Or you can put 100 and it'll be fine.
it was a judgment call. 120mm is a little bit more universal, so if you ever upgraded this,
or you could put this on a different bike, 120 is more of a standard fat bike frame so this
motor can be put on another fat bike way easier than 100mm could. We put a gear shift sensor
in it right here, it's super concealed right up here. We got a 52 volt 16.75 amp hour battery
pack in here so this thing's gonna get pretty good range. These aren't like giant fat tires,
they're just pretty fat tires, so they're going to get probably a 40-mile range I'm guessing out of
here, depending on how much you pedal. That's the biggest thing, is how much you pedal, and how much
power are you going through. Are you using the throttle on full throttle all the time, doing 30
miles an hour? Your range is going to go down. For the display, we went with the 850c or the dpc14
it's the same one. It's a nice color display, it sits vertical, it has a USB output so you could
charge your phone, rechargeable headlights, things of that nature, it just charges things, It's got
a little USB charge output, it's 5 volts I think, It is so you could charge things off of this which
may be nice. Some people, you don't need it and don't get it. It's got a throttle up here next
to it, we made the throttle tied to the pedal assist levels, so if you're on pedal assist one
it's going to give you a little boost but throttle will also only give you a little boost,
you know, if you don't really plan on pedaling much and you just want to be going down like
pathways where there's a lot of people, and you just want to be hitting the throttle, it's nice
to have this tied to the pedal assist because that way when you hit full throttle it's just going to
be going like eight miles an hour in your lowest gear. And then you could bump it up and go faster
each one with the throttle, or you could go in there, you could program this so that the throttle
is always set to full speed. There's trade-offs to that, it can be a safety issue either way because
if you're not confident on this bike, and you have this throttle set to full bore you accidentally
hit it or you're not used to that power, you could get yourself into trouble. That being said,
if you're in a place where you could be in trouble, and you need to get out of it quick,
like you're crossing a crosswalk or something, it could be nice to have this set at full bore
so you could just get out of there. We had to put an extension cable for the little toggle switch
for the display because it comes with a cable maybe *that* long, and you can see with these
new handlebars, we had to get an extension cable for the toggle switch to the display.
We also had to put longer cables for everything. I had to put new cables for everything: shifter,
brakes, front and rear, everything had to get new cabling and cable housing. But I
really like the way this turned out, and it's a super comfortable ride. All right, let's go do a
JohnnyNerdOut test where we test hill climbing from a standstill and from a running start,
and then we also test top speed without pedaling for any of it just to see what the motor can do.
All right, so you can see top speed was 35 mph without pedaling so this thing boogies pretty
good. Hill climbing was good with a running start, from a standstill this thing failed... it couldn't
do it because you'll see this low gear is small. That is not much of a hill-climbing gear, and we
went with a stock chainring, that's a 46-tooth here, and I'm going to say this is like a 30,
32, maybe 28... We got a 28-tooth as the low which is pretty big, not physically sized, but that's a
that's not a very big low gear. So definitely switching that out to a proper low gear and
going with this as a small would make a huge difference for hill climbing. The closer you
get to a one-to-one ratio, so if you had 36-tooth up here, and a 36 back here, that hill-climbing
would just be a beast, but because this is 46 and 28 that's almost a two-to-one ratio,
you're putting a lot of strain on that motor to make it hill climb like that. Now
it's behaving almost like a hub motor where it's that gear ratio is just not there. So,
I would replace this, 28-tooth is not much for a low gear. Now you then, you would have
a proper hill climbing off-road machine. But, overall, $450 bucks, I give this a thumbs up.
This is a good bike. If you're looking for a budget fat bike, this is a good bike,
I say go for it! All right guys, let me know if you have any questions, talk to you later!