Riding the #lectricOne around a bit and I'm just astounded that they put a throttle on it and then mapped it to do the stupidest behavior imaginable. The fatbike hub motor has a lot of torque in the 20in wheel (2.3in not-really-fat tires) so pedal-assist level 5 hits hard if you're not pointed uphill, even level 1 is a bit severe. But if you're in level 0, the throttle does nothing, in level 1 it's limited, so you have to turn it to 5 to get full throttle command. Why have a throttle? #eBikes
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Throttle should have full range from assist level 0 and never change its max power. I could see some utility of adjusting that on the fly but really just no.
People complain that pedal sensors are too on/off, but the problem is everyone uses a button pad to adjust them when that should really be like a grip shifter or something you can more easily do with mittens and be able to go all the way from 0-9 or whatever in one motion.
The lurching behavior can be controlled somewhat with ramp-up, but why are no e-bikes using an inclinometer, since weight and incline are what you really want to adjust the power to match?
@enobacon Inclinometer is the germ of a great idea but you'd have to compensate for acceleration, which would look to the sensor the same as a change in incline. Seems like the engineering would be tricky but doable.
