[lostlogin]

Not op - you can get a similar but limited version of this from sitting behind other bikes. e-bikes are a prime target if your heading into the wind.

They are usually speed limited to below what a road bike travels at, but in bad weather they are very useful windbreaks.

[kazinator]

I think that used to be true in the early wave of e-bikes.

Today, I regularly see e-bikes and scooters easily keeping up with traffic that is moving upward of 50 km/h.

If there are still e-things on the market today with speed limitations not related to their power capacity, people must be easily working around those limits somehow, with firmware patches or secret codes or what have you.

Most of the stuff comes from China, which is an uncontrollable entity that doesn't care about regulations in North America and elsewhere.

[lostlogin]

> I think that used to be true in the early wave of e-bikes.

Where I am the max speed is 32kmh by regulation.

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/walking-cycling-and-public-transpor...

[PaulDavisThe1st]

In a reasonably sized pack of cyclists, being in the pack instead of being the lead cyclist requires 30% less power.