Originally Posted by
kingston
I assure you I know how a torque sensor and an electric motor work. It's not magic.
Yet only a few pages ago you were completely clueless about e-bikes that didn’t use a crude throttle or cadence sensor and still kept asserting that motor maximum power is the only relevant parameter.
What I’ve learnt from this thread is that there are some e-bikes that have very little in common with the ethos of cycling (we could call theses e-mopeds, where the pedals are largely superfluous).
But true e-bikes designed for recreational sport are nothing like this and are very closely related to traditional cycling. They merely augment human cycling power output without otherwise diluting the experience. The latest generation of lightweight road e-bikes, such as the Specialized Turbo Creo SL, are basically road race bikes with a subtle power boost proportional to your own output.