Drone maker DJI shook up the ebike market in 2024 when it pulled its motor tech out of the skies and put it to work in a new brand of bikes it named Amflow. Now it's bringing all that torque-dense motor performance over to the United States for the first time, offering what's sure to be one of the…
It may be 1000W peak input into the controller. Which could result in 750W output at the wheel.
“May be” and “could” aren’t necessarily intrepretations of the spec.
An in shape MTB rider puts out 200-250w. This is still 4-5x what a human can do. Its going to cause an increase in damage to trails, and vastly increase the rate of accidents - both of the rider and others.
I rarely to never see people on “ebikes” show up to repair trails where I live, but they’re always on the trails…
They’re still limited to 20 mph for Class 1, a lot slower than a pedal bike would go down a hill, the extra power really only gets used going up hills.