Regenerative Braking?

[kahn]

You do bring up an excellent point. A lot of gravel events (races, or just rides) have decent sized distances on tarmac, or really hard packed fire road. Even a S-Works Epic HT with the configuration I said will underperform there. But if one does start watching gravel events, for whatever the reason, some are mostly on gravel, with very little tarmac, and even chunks of green/easy singletrack, with bits of grass, and such thrown in. That's where the high quality, lightweight XC HT bike will perform extremely well.

I supposed it depends on how one is micro-analyzing any ride, doesn't it! KM by KM, section by section!

Anybody remember the day when there were just bikes? No modifier, no mtn, road, gravel, cross, hybrid, etc.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Anybody remember the day when there were just bikes? No modifier, no mtn, road, gravel, cross, hybrid, etc.

I (strangely) don't miss those times.
And hey, a road bike was never "just-a-bike". Unless we are back in 1890s

 

[kahn]

I (strangely) don't miss those times.
And hey, a road bike was never "just-a-bike". Unless we are back in 1890s

I am almost old enough!

 

[Rider51]

TBH, I think there's something special about climbing aboard a bike and just riding wherever you want to go. Not worry about how fast, how far, your average speed, power, cadence, GPS, where the map tells you to go, etc. And not worry about what terrain you're riding over, for the most part.

This is what I like about some of the modern e-bikes (specifically my Vado SL) in that it just makes me want to ride. It makes me 15 years old again in a sense.

What this discussion has to do with regenerative braking, I don't know!

 

[AHicks]

Sometimes we are allowed to wander. While riding, and while writing...

 

[webcurl]

And also https://www.neodrives.com/en/drive-system/z20/z20-rear-motor/ which are used in Santos ebikes, direct drive though
I'd be willing to put up with the display to get to using a Grin GMAC with Pinion though!
Love the idea of geared re-gen.