😀🚲Jan 11
Riding the #lectricOne around a bit and I'm just astounded that they put a throttle on it and then mapped it to do the stupidest behavior imaginable. The fatbike hub motor has a lot of torque in the 20in wheel (2.3in not-really-fat tires) so pedal-assist level 5 hits hard if you're not pointed uphill, even level 1 is a bit severe. But if you're in level 0, the throttle does nothing, in level 1 it's limited, so you have to turn it to 5 to get full throttle command. Why have a throttle? #eBikes
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Throttle should have full range from assist level 0 and never change its max power. I could see some utility of adjusting that on the fly but really just no.

People complain that pedal sensors are too on/off, but the problem is everyone uses a button pad to adjust them when that should really be like a grip shifter or something you can more easily do with mittens and be able to go all the way from 0-9 or whatever in one motion.

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The lurching behavior can be controlled somewhat with ramp-up, but why are no e-bikes using an inclinometer, since weight and incline are what you really want to adjust the power to match?
Show threadGemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐
@enobacon I lierally just wrote a whole thing on how ebikes should not be power-limited by law, but rather should be power-limited by inclinometer and accelerometer. More power on hills, less power on flat, low or no power on downhill. Electric motors make max torque at 0 RPM, so limiting power from a standstill unless you are on an incline or hauling cargo is obvious (calibrate to OEM bicycle weight). The electronics to do this are ubiquitous and cheap, and the software to do it is simple.
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Show threadGemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Jan 11

@enobacon Anyone who rides an ebike in a hilly region immediately understand how absurb it is to limit ebikes to 750 W power, or worse, the 250 W limit in the EU.

My 500 W hub motor struggles to get up a 3.5% incline at 8 mph, and stops dead in the road on anything much steeper than that. The 9.5% hill that is the shortest route home for me is impossible.