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Dear Saturn-16-MGU customer, Within Nicolai GmbH we cultivate a culture of “rapid innovation”. We continuously develop, test and implement new products and features within Nicolai products. As soon as we are satisfied with the new solutions, we would like to quickly make these innovations...

Good eye. Well damn if this is a firm requirement! The disc side swingarm on my Sonni is 22.5mm. I'm really hoping the problem is not on the inboard side where the hub goes (after all Boost 148 is a standard), but rather on the outboard side. If this is the case, I don't see why there would...

That the rear sprocket has end ridges would not change the requirement to obviate a snubber. I think the reason why the ridges are there is for strength reasons, as the sprocket appears to be synthetic. The most likely reason there is no snubber is because the rear sprocket is pretty large...

Have you seen Tesla's merchandise: surf boards, tequila, flame throwers (Boring Company), CyberSquad (ATV), etc? The stuff sells out within seconds.

I don't have a Facebook account. To me the obvious investor is Elon. Heck, Pole's bikes already look like the Cybertruck and exhibit that same "go against the the grain, engineering first" kind of ethos. His chump change could fund Pole for years. If anyone has an inside track track to Musk...

Luckily I use the the bigger Fidlock bottle with mud cap, shown here, which hasn't been too much of a problem so far.

OK. Solved the bottle mount challenge with the Sonni. One of the design tradeoffs with the Sonni was not having a suitable bottle cage mount: no room for one inside the frame and Bosch not allowing mounts on downtube plate cover for the battery. The only relegated place for the mount is on...

To the extent that changing the shock stroke is being done to increase travel, well then yes, it appears the current Nicolai design entail too large of belt loop size for their tensioner (which BTW, is an excellent design and far better than Pinions' own tensioner) to properly take up slack when...

What is interesting is that not all long travel bikes suffer from this. Chain growth though the suspension travel and the need to take up this slack with a tensioner, is a really a product of the suspense design itself. As a counter example, per tooFATtoride, his much-longer-travel 190mm Voima...

Can you give some more details on the riding characteristics between these configurations? Did you ever use a full 29er setup? The reason I ask is that my still trying to parse out the handling dynamics with my mixed-wheel Sonni, which is the first mullet setup I've ever used. I'm finding the...

This is a huge advantage when the motor and internal-geared systems are synchronized. I experienced this when testing a Rohloff E-14 hub synchronized with Bosch CX motor. The torque sensor in the motor can detect when load is light enough to shift, even while mashing. The hub felt much better...

My hope was to at least keep the website up with some kind of simple homepage that says that they are trying to restructure of whatnot or put up a shopify page to liquidate spare parts if the business actually liquidates. Not sure how this proceeds in Finland. What about customers who didn't...

Here is the written review. Can't believe it lost to the Norco for the downhill rig. Had to have been demoted because of the bankruptcy.

Pole's website appears to be down. Not a particularly good sign.

Didn't realize this this development since 2022, so stand corrected. At least Pinion has a chance then if cash infusion could sustain over a product launch growth cycle needed to penetrate this new market. IGH and gearboxes still this day have been incredibly niche, whereas ebike motors are...

Good to finally see an external review, especially considering the current state with Pole. Other than concerns about the bike's appearance, they were really struggling to find a fault with the bike. This was a cursory review that doesn't go too much into the detail of the ride, but I expect...

Pinion has entered the motor domain, complete with battery tech, controllers, firmware, etc. To me that's the big jump, especially for a small outfit like Pinion. They do know internal gears all right, but L-ion battery certification is steep in the States and well as a needed solid support...

Dude, is this your bike? If so, since when did you move to away from Pinion tensioner to the Universal Transmission tensioner? As you know, this is exactly the tensioner I want to outfit my Sonni with. Both Poles have plenty of room for a transverse tensioner like the UT and also benefit from...

Yeah, but not with a chain. Must be belt drive.

Absolutely love Boyscout. Over the years it's really turned from a poison oak minefield into a tight and playful amusement park. Had a blast on my Voima there before it was stolen in Tahoe. Now if if show me videos of you riding the Crack, well then then the broken swingarms totally make sense.