update makes Cowboy e-bikes better climbers and more efficient

Cowboy is rolling retired a free over-the-air update to its single-speed, belt-driven e-bikes that promises to flatten steeper hills while besides making its 250W rear-hub centrifugal much businesslike erstwhile nan roadworthy levels retired — nary cogwheel changes required.

Specifically, Cowboy says its AdaptivePower 2.0 update will thief return riders up hills that are 50 percent steeper while redeeming 10 percent much powerfulness connected level roads. These improvements are compared to nan company’s first-generation adaptive powerfulness tech that Cowboy launched conscionable complete a twelvemonth ago, which automatically adjusts powerfulness transportation based connected incline, headwind, aliases other hauling weight. 

As Cowboy explains it, adaptive powerfulness relies connected a proprietary (and once contested) algorithm that monitors nan electrical output of nan centrifugal controller and nan real-time information collected from nan torque sensor. And arsenic I precocious wrote, a torque sensor without optimization connected a single-speed e-bike is nary joyousness to ride.

“This represents a caller level of intelligence for each our e-bikes that already deliberation for themselves,” says Tanguy Goretti, Cowboy’s cofounder and main exertion officer. “Thanks to connectivity and over-the-air updates, moreover a three-year-old Cowboy exemplary will now person a amended thrust consciousness than erstwhile it near nan accumulation line.” 

The package update will beryllium released to existing Classic, Cruiser, and Cross e-bike owners “in nan coming days” and will vessel modular connected each caller Cowboy e-bikes starting today.