ASX on e-bikes is horrendously stupid, to me. How many individual batteries does a bike need? The shifting and dropping should be run off the main battery. Even a 1% reserve on those beast would keep you shifting for weeks, so easy enough for software to cut the assistance and leave you with gears to get home. Absolutely idiotic to have multiple tiny batteries alongside the one monster battery. Sure it wouldn't be completely wireless, but that's well worth the trade-off for Just One Battery to charge.
Of course, e-bikes really should be gearbox bikes with electronic shifting, but that's another can of worms.
Sept. 24, 2021, 7:50 a.m. - Justin White
ASX on e-bikes is horrendously stupid, to me. How many individual batteries does a bike need? The shifting and dropping should be run off the main battery. Even a 1% reserve on those beast would keep you shifting for weeks, so easy enough for software to cut the assistance and leave you with gears to get home. Absolutely idiotic to have multiple tiny batteries alongside the one monster battery. Sure it wouldn't be completely wireless, but that's well worth the trade-off for Just One Battery to charge. Of course, e-bikes really should be gearbox bikes with electronic shifting, but that's another can of worms.