Two-Wheel Drive Christini 29er Fat Snow Bike Developed for Ride to South Pole – Bike Rumor
If there were ever an application for an all-wheel drive mountain bike, this is it. Christini’s been making mountain bikes with two-wheel drive for quite some time, starting development in 1995 and selling the first bike in 2001. He’s even ported the tech over to motorbikes.
Now, he’s built a custom version of his 29? hardtail to accommodate fat bike tires and parts to support an upcoming attempt to ride a bike to the South Pole! The frame uses his patented system that runs an axle from a gear on the non-drive side of the rear hub, through the frame to the headtube, then down through the fork. In this case, it’s a custom titanium fork built by Carver Bikes in Maine. The trick will be to keep all the moving parts, well, moving in the arctic conditions.
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