E-bikes are a thing

[jdog]

What's the reason for the high-cadence, short crank thing on e-bikes?
Is it that the motors naturally need to look more at cadence since they can't look at power to determine how much motor power to output?

I assume there's some logic that "human is trying to go faster" that it compensates for and adds power, and it does it assuming if the cadence is high, more power is necessary?

In my opinion it minimizes the torque in the motor and more importantly it doesn’t kill a drivetrain every 500 miles.

 

[scott62]

My 2.8 tires lol at tire spin. Dirt bikes don’t use 2.4 tires, why should e bikes?keep the skinnies on the road.

 

[Steve Vai]

So I should try an S4 instead of S3?

Try both. The S4 will fit a little more XC out of the box where the 3 will need some fiddling.