Originally Posted by
caloso
Post 28.
My point wasn't to pick on phughes or to put down ebikes, but there seems to be an ongoing fallacy that provides the same or nearly the same exercise benefit as a non-powered bike, and that's obviously untrue.
An additional 100w is a huge boost. If you've never ridden a bike with a power meter, I'd encourage you to borrow one. Ride for 5 minutes at 200w. Then ride for 5 minutes at 300w. It's immense.
That is true.
What most don't seem to understand here, is that an assist E-Bike measures your input to the pedaling effort and gives you in my case 35% added to my lets say 100 watts so what I get is 135 watts at the wheel, for me to get 100 watts of assist I would need to put in almost 300 watts of pedaling effort, not going to happen.
