Originally Posted by
klevin
Except that you can't lug a hub motor any more than you can with a mid drive. Modern electric motors, with their modern controllers, are different beasts than the motors we grew up with. Locked stator high currents? Not any more. The controllers current limit the motor.
With modern indexed shifters, I wonder how many folks find shifting hard to learn? Again, not like it was 40 years ago!
You can still overheat ebikes and burn things up by using too much throttle in too high of a gear. Shorten the motor life at least. Lacking gears hub motors need to be designed to work that way so one would think they are more resistant to hard starts. But that is just speculation on my part.
it is not the shifter that is the issue, it is knowing when to use it that seems to cause new riders issues. They never seem to know what gear to be in and certainly don't have the experience to shift anticipating needed changes. ebikes can exacerbate the problem of being in the wrong gear.