Geared Hub Motors and Direct Drive Hub Motors offer unique benefits and drawbacks. Comparing engineering specifications is helpful, but road testing finished E-bikes really shows the personality of a motor drive system. The twisting steep roads of the Marin Headlands proved to be an ideal area for electric bicycle motor testing. For the purpose of comparing the most popular options we ran an E-bike built using a geared hub motor, and an E-bike with a direct drive hub motor. Both

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