Originally Posted by
Nate1952
As a traditional bike rider - habituated to select gears that allow me to "spin" - what I still find to be problematic over the first few weeks is the sequence of effort that this sets up: the electric "push" ... followed by the loss of momentum when the motor shuts down ... followed by another "push" as the strain sensor detects more effort.
From my understanding, the rapid loss of momentum once the motor shuts down is due to the hub's inefficient drag since it does not offer true freewheeling. Therefore, the mortor appears to be wasting a lot of energy from the heavy freewheeling.