Re:Show HN: Long Range E-Bike
by dncornholio on Friday November 12, 2021 @01:51PM
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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 and still accelerate to top speed.
Where I live that would be illegal for an e-bike, that vehicle would be classified as an e-scooter.
Re:Show HN: Long Range E-Bike
by dncornholio on Friday November 12, 2021 @02:16PM
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Doesn't any Batavus E-Bike does this? That's were I got my (limited) experience from.
That 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.
Re:Show HN: Long Range E-Bike
by dncornholio on Friday November 12, 2021 @02:31PM
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25 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
Neat, I'll have to try that and see what happens, we have one ordinary e-bike here with a Bosch system as well.
Interesting. 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.
Re:Show HN: Long Range E-Bike
by dncornholio on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @08:08AM
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yes, as long as i kept rotating the crank with my pedals, it would power me forward, regardless of rotation speed
As a kid my first response to pretty much anything with a dial was to turn it up all the way and see what happened. That's a behavior I saw quite a bit during the brief plague of VC-funded scooters: novices at 100% motor output rocketing down sidewalks, etc. That's much less likely to happen it they have to pedal hard to get the top speed.