How to make e bike faster

Let’s know what you need to remember to speed up your E-Bike or drive it faster. Do you know that your e-bikes have a speed limiter? If it is imposed, how can it be bypassed? It’s much easier than you might think, and we will learn this in this article.

Figuring out the Speed limiter on your E-Bike:

The Department of Transportation puts e-bikes into three categories.

01. Class 01 E-Bikes:

Class 01 E-bikes are commonly defined as E-bikes with an Electric Motor and Pedal Assist (legs are required to pedal). This means that you have to keep pedaling your E-bike to move. The speed limit is a maximum of 18 to 20 miles per hour.

02. Class 02 E-Bikes:

Class 02 E-Bikes have a throttle-driven Motor (no legs are needed), which means that you only need to throttle, and your e-bike will move without you even needing to pedal. However, you still have an option to pedal. Some E-Bikes come with an option for both pedal assist and a throttle-driven system in such cases, it would still be a Class 02 E-Bike. In this, you can get a speed of up to 20 miles per hour.

03. Class 03 E-Bikes:

These E-bikes have only pedal assist features, which means that the motor will not power unless the rider throttles the motor. In this segment, you can get speed up to 28 miles per hour. These are the fastest legal E-bikes in this category.

How to make e-bike Faster:

Removing the speed limiter cruising cable of your E-Bike:

I had a Tenway class 2 e-bike, and due to legal restrictions, the company imposed a maximum speed limit of 20 miles per hour. I was curious to break the speed limit just for the purpose of experimentation. I wanted to see the full potential of my e-bike motor and experience its top speed.

In this article, I will explain how to bypass the speed limiter on your e-bike to make it faster. The steps are very simple, as I have mentioned below. If you want to watch the demo, please feel free to check the video below:

 

1. The first step is to find the speed limiter cable in your e-bike. The speed limiter cable is the cruising cable available in all e-bikes. These cables show the live speed when you commute on your e-bike.
2. Find the Contour, usually located in frame 2 of your e-bike, and find the controller.
3. Open the controller of your e-bike and try to find the thin black, blue, or white wire.
4. Unmount that cable from the controller and then power on your e-bike.
5. Twist down your throttle to see whether the controller breaks the maximum speed limiter.
6. Now, repack your e-bike and make it as it was.
7. This method must work for you now.

This method has very few disadvantages and is likely to be safer.

1. The advantage is that you can cruise your e-bike without a speed limiter, and your controller will show the actual speed at which you are cruising.
2. The disadvantage is that it may be illegal in your state if you are living in the United States of America.

PLEASE NOTE:

• The tricks mentioned above could have legal issues or potential issues; I will never recommend applying them unless they’re essential.

As we have seen, there is a certain limit in all e-bike classes, but this does not mean that we cannot break this limit and make our e-bikes faster. A very good and safe example we have learned is to remove the cruise cabel. Now, upon searching and exploring with my friends, I learned two more methods, which I am trying to explain below in points.

The two methods that will increase the speed of your E-Bike are as follows:

1. The first method is called the magnetic trick method. Your rear wheel has a small round magnet attached to the spoke of your rear wheel.

Now, we also have to change the location of the speed sensor that calculates the number of wheel turns per second. That turn-per-second information is sent to the e-bike’s controller, which calculates the current speed.

Every time the speed sensor faces the magnet, the controller calculates it as a full turn and on this basis, it calculates the speed and shows it on the controller screen.

A simple hack is to change the location of the magnet on the wheel and the speed sensor cable so that the controller calculates the minimum wheel turn.

Its disadvantages include showing error messages on the e-bike’s controller screen and inaccurate speed readings.

1. The second method is much easier, and it is just related to the tire size on your panel. For example, if the company fitted your E-bike with a 20-inch fat tire, you can simply change the tire size to 29-inch tires.

1. So, in my case, when I unlock my E-bike and go out on the road, the speedometer still says that I am going at a speed of 25 miles per hour, but on my cycle compass app, it shows that I am going at a speed of 42 miles per hour only after I change the size of my tire to the biggest one available.
2. So the mechanism is that bigger tires have to travel to bigger spaces, and as a result, your E-Bike speed will increase.

Before proceeding, let’s also know the rules & regulations:

1. Well, the downside is your panel will no longer be accurate with your running speed.
2. So, if you are planning to do something like that, I will not say that you shouldn’t, but if you are going to extend your speed limit, I suggest getting a cell phone mount with a speed checker.
3. You can install a cycle computer app, which is entirely free of cost. It will tell you which speed you are going.
4. You have to make sure that you are not breaking the law of the state where you are commuting. If you are caught, you should be ready with the penalty.

Precautions that you must follow while speeding up your E-Bike:

1. You must have a clear mindset about the quality of your e-bike.
2. When you do this experiment on lower-quality e-bikes, like those under the 500 to 600-dollar price bracket, those e-bikes are just not meant to go that fast and break the speed limiter.
3. Cheap e-bikes generate more pressure on the motor, too much pressure on the battery, and everything else, including your spokes, seat, and pedal.
4. So, I will suggest from my experience that if you want to override the limiter, just buy an E-Bike between the price bracket of $1200 – $2000
5. And one more thing: If you are giving e-bikes to your kids, most of them are regulated, and they say you must be over 16 or 18 years old. So, if you give one to anyone younger than that, I will not suggest it because it can be very dangerous when they start cranking that and going 40 to 50 miles an hour on the road.

I hope that this article helped you a lot and that I was able to provide you with enough information; if not, leave me a comment below, and I will try to help you in fixing your issue. Thank you so much for your trust & time; please remember ebikeleague & come back for any difficulty you face with your electric bike.

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