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E bikes also have a dial, all it does is it limits the speed when it stops accelerating. You can dial the bike all the way up, peddle but not apply any force an
by dncornholio 5y ago
E bikes also have a dial, all it does is it limits the speed when it stops accelerating. You can dial the bike all the way up, peddle but not apply any force and still accelerate to top speed.
- jacquesm 5y agoWhere I live that would be illegal for an e-bike, that vehicle would be classified as an e-scooter.
- dncornholio 5y agoDoesn't any Batavus E-Bike does this? That's were I got my (limited) experience from.
- jacquesm 5y agoThat depends on what you mean by 'dial it up', do you mean a throttle? If so then that's illegal. If it is just a 25 kph bike then you can feather the pedals and it will go up to 15 or so and above that you'll have to work for it.
- dncornholio 5y ago25 kph bike, has a setting for power that has 4 stages and an 5th stage called boost. Would go all the way to 25 with just feathering
- jacquesm 5y agoNeat, I'll have to try that and see what happens, we have one ordinary e-bike here with a Bosch system as well.
- wpietri 5y agoInteresting. So you're saying that they have to keep pedaling, just not very hard? My only experience is with the Lyft e-bikes, where high speed required actual work for me.
- dncornholio 5y agoyes, as long as i kept rotating the crank with my pedals, it would power me forward, regardless of rotation speed
- wpietri 5y agoInteresting! Thanks.