I think it is either/or:
If only you could see the many hundreds of times a member with their first hub motor e-bike has posted the same during the 12 years of this forum.
Hi Rick I know just what you mean. As other posts on here state a lot of the treacle/drag feel is down to the extra weight of the hub and battery. I have a Freego Eagle for 6 yrs and found exactly the problems you state. I have just changed to an Oxygen S Cross and am now able to ride much more without power. I don't know the bike you have or whether you may be able to change it but worth a thought. The problem for me with the Eagle was that because of the difficulty of riding without power it made me a bit lazy and I almost always used it.Good luck with your riding.
Thanks for your input.A lot of members are also saying it needs to have some miles on it and hopefully it will get easier.otherwise I'll have legs like Arnie Schwarzanegga!!!!!
Tried following your link but got too techy for me.my post code starts BS23.I'm not good with technology as I'm the wrong side of 50!!think I'll just post a general message tomorrow asking is there anybody near me?thanks again for all your help.
Thanks Muddy.hope it just gets easier or il have to change my tag to Thunderthighs!!!!!
Not techy Rick, all you had to do was click that highlighted link and then post BS23 in that thread. Fiftyish is no excuse, I'm 82.
Rick - this is a problem with your bike. Please don't accept what all the responders are telling you who have NOT ridden a Carrerra Crossfire or Vulcan which has this problem. Who knows what it is - Halfords claim they don't , but they replaced my Crossfire (with a Crossfuse) two weeks after I bought it as it had a worsening problem. Fortunately it had been misbehaving when I passed a Halfords and when one of their guys tried riding it with the power off his words were 'I am an athlete and there's no way I could ride that bike more than a few hundred meters'
That rather confuses the issue since it's changing from a hub motor to a crank drive motor. The latter do tend to be easier to pedal, less inertia to start with.
Precisely Mike, the Bafang motor it uses has the usual internal freewheel that disconnects the motor from the hub rotation and therefore the pedalling. If the freewheel jams, as can happen, pedalling the bike involves rotating the motor geared about 6 to 1 up, which is certainly tough. But when that happens the wheel cannot spin freely by hand, but Rick says his does. Hence the puzzlement.
If Rick's problem is the same as mine was, it's much worse than tyre resistance. And Rick doesn't say, but in my case, the problem would sometimes disappear which makes it much more likely that some kind of gear train was failing to disengage.
