Most class 3 bikes can already do 28mph. Most bafang ones can do higher. So speed is not new.Having done years of commuting on a bike that cruised at 28-30 mph, I can wholeheartedly agree. And I did that on a bike I geared so I had to pedal hard to get there. Lost, I think, 40 lbs in my first year on it. And I don't do throttles except for getting off the line. Halfway across the intersection from a dead stop its PAS all the way forward until the stop at the next light.
More a function of gear ratio. Speed is not new.On the long, arrow-straight streets here, commuting home, I have had drivers roll down their windows and ask about the bike as they've been trying to leave me behind for miles but I keep pace (they may pass me mid block, but I catch them at the light and I zoom off while 20 cars accordion-expand out from that same stop in a slow parade). Faster = more practical if your bike has a job and you have somewhere to go to get something done. If its for sightseeing in a promenade around the block or a trail somewhere, yeah sure speed is not a plus.
I am certain that @Deafcat can be taken at his word and PAS can have resistance on the pedals - since my bike has a 4kw peak across its 2wd twin (w/PAS) motors. I can pedal myself to exhaustion if I want and its not brain surgery as to how to go about it if you've got some build experience.
I hope so too. However we all should take this with a grain of salt. Just because it’s new doesn’t mean it’s solving a real problem.
Set aside all the praise (deserved). Objectively What is this getting us? Throttle only setup. Let’s not try to romanticize this.
Let Biktrix work on the PAS, put it through tests, have real comparison with existing options and see what it is. Everything else is just speculation. Let’s not force fit our expectations to what they want to do.
As Roshan said it - let the market decide. The motor is not there yet for most use cases we are discussing. It takes time, $$, adoption, refinement, a possible second generation of motor before this is a reality. Realistically expect the motor with PAS or anything close to that in production by next year this time at the earliest, assuming some adoption and testing by real world users.
Good luck