Earlier this year, 9:ZERO:7 and Fallbrook Technologies Inc. announced the 2013 Tusken. The Tusken is one of a growing list of fat-bikes to pair Fallbrook’s continuously variable NuVinci N360 transmission with the Gates Carbon Drive CenterTrack™ Belt Drive System. The NuVinci N360 is the latest generation of Fallbrook’s award-winning continuously variable planetary (CVP) transmission for bicycles. The […]
Our neighbor, from across Lake Michigan, Mr. Scott Quiring of Quiring Cycles just finished up this whee KVA stainless, Gates belt drive fat bike with a NuVinci n 360 hub in his Free Soil, Michigan, bicycle laboratory. Scott machined a 35 mm spacer on the non-drive side to convert the frame spacing from 170 […]
In an article a month or so back we looked at the NuVinci N360 as a fat-bike friendly hub with a standard chain drive and the promise of a belt drive setup using the Gates CenterTrack system to come. Well, here it is! To install a belt drive system on your bike you will either […]
We first saw the NuVinci CVP continuously variable hub at Interbike back in about 2007 and were impressed by the idea of a hub with no gear steps, just a smooth twist of the grip to change the resistance. The hub worked great albeit with a few notable concessions. It took quite a bit of […]
