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pagheca
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yes, it happens on my Trek with Bosch Performance CX motor as well.I've got an Aventon Level 2, and for the most part I love it. I'm an old dude who bought an e-bike to help me with hills and wind. When there are no hills or wind, I'd like to ride the bike without any assist, just as a good ol' fashion bicycle. But when I switch off any assist (Power set to zero), pedaling the bike is very difficult. It's like the brakes are set to about 50%. There's a lot of drag, I'm guessing from the hub. For some reason I thought when the power was turned off on an e-bike it would ride like a non-e-bike. Is there something wrong with my bike? Did I set it up improperly? Or is this typical of all e-bikes? Do mid-drive bikes have this drag when not in any power assist mode?
Sorry if this is a "duh" question.
Larger weight apart, when you switch power off, the motor is not mechanically decoupled from the rest. So there's a lot of mechanical friction, plus the inductance of the permanent magnets in the motor itself.