I can see how someone could take my reply to him as being condescending if they didn’t see what I was replying to. To put things into context, here is the post that I relied to:
“In sharing with folks interested in throttles for ebikes, I never intended reaching out to folks that drool and ask "what's a throttle"? No idea why they input.
It's a serious topic and opinions should be accompanied by serious cites.
I'm stunned by Billy Bob chastising me for not being grateful for wild guesstimating of admitted no-nothings - until I saw it was from Michigan. Something in the water, for sure.
I'm not smart, just tenacious, do my homework until I get it. Hell yes I have little use for the physically/ mentally lazy parasites.
Why get an ebike then pretend you are riding an old 10 speed?
There's so many reason's for having a good throttle and knowing how to use it, it's an indefensible, 'Urkel' level faux pas to think to the contrary.
In fact most of us non-puritans uses typically the throttle to start forward, then shift to the appropriate gear through intersection, out of traffics way.
You might think you look cool with those tight pants on an /bicycle ebike, butt up in the air, standing up and trying mightily to press down those pedals (in the wrong gear), your face red with exertion and a look of determination, and the front wheel wobbling, holding up traffic.
I'd say it's debatable.
Where I live there are more ebikes on the road than bicycles. Bicycles are obsolete and losing fast. This is about transportation, not recreation.
Oh, we see tightly clad geriatric High-Tails in clumps, on weekends. Usually stopped, discussing some nebulous concept of fixing something, leaning over, one stiff leg (oops, there goes another delusion out the window).
I pull up. Stop. Gauge the traffic and drive off, shifting to the gear I require as I go - often they notice the light is green and begin to wobble forth, but hey ... I removed my rear-view mirror, so I can't look back and watch the light turn Red with those guys still in the intersection.
What screws me up is I still can't figure why they're always inspecting those skinny tires?
Approaching 5000 miles riding this machine, I 100% prefer to come to a stop in gear 4th or 5th.
I never have "wrong gear frustration". Never.
As I reach 15mph I'm shifting and using my pedals for torque input.
BTW: The Box 8Sp is perfect gearing for a City ebike (go 11 on the small cog), where you can fly.
When I built gas engines I'd say "stay on the cam", by which I mean "on the powerband", with max torque input via the cranks, fully supplemented by max throttle in the gaps (Isn't epistemology fun? I say "fly" and some visually being a 'housefly', not an Eagle).
My point is: You cannot do that with Cadence so 50% of purists never get to even taste it.
How can they address it? Only through warped lenses clouded by ground in expectations.
That's another aspect left out of this conversation.
If you're running Cadence, that's for long haul riding, for pace. You one 'a those 'leg-torture' guys w/ the buffed calves. How romantic.
Torque Sensor is for multiplying your pedaling power - when you input it. Accelerating, Stop sign to Stop sign work. Not keeping a pace.
Like a gas pedal, I can us TS and crank one side doubling my force input (from the pedal) to the wheel - even in a turn.
Cadence is for those long stretches of pristine railroad tracks going up our coast.
Torque Sensor's for driving through the Downtown Jungle on a mission.
FnF”
