Originally Posted by Marcus_Ti

You can drive yourself nuts or psych yourself out with worrying about POE.

It only really matters when you stop pedaling and resume...on an MTB with varied terrain this could be a big thing. On a road bike with more or less steady-state pedaling it isn't, except sprinting.....or excepting the pedal-coast-pedal-coast riding population of which there are many out there.

The coolest class of hubs are instant-engagement...namely sprag clutches. No POE, just instant engagement--and dead silent--which today is just OnyxRP, and they're very nice hubs...LB USA even offers them for a relative steal.