Recent content by MarkSea

I'm 2 weeks in to my first e-bike, here is my take so far. I'm a big guy and live in Seattle which has a lot of very steep hills on my commute downtown. I put an Ezee 250R rear geared hub motor on a 7 year old REI 29er Mountain bike. I need to tweak the settings on the PAS, but 80% of the...

One hypothesis, if I'm reading your question right: If you look at the Efficiency curve at http://www.ebikes.ca/tools/simulator.html, you will see that at low speeds, you have very low efficiency, so even though you are at 100% throttle, and generating a lot of torque, the efficiency is low...