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This motor could be the future of e-bikes

Imagine an e-bike motor that lets you select your preferred pedaling cadence and then automatically adjusts the gears to keep your legs spinning at that exact speed, no matter how steep the hill gets - all without a fragile derailleur…

This article was originally published by The Verge and is republished here under license.

The Avinox MG Concept MGU coming next year. | Image: Avinox

Imagine an e-bike motor that lets you select your preferred pedaling cadence and then automatically adjusts the gears to keep your legs spinning at that exact speed, no matter how steep the hill gets – all without a fragile derailleur or heavy multi-speed cassette to maintain. Prefer manual control? No problem, you can have as many gears as you like in whatever ratio makes you feel most connected to the terrain. That’s the e-bike motor announced last week at the big Eurobike trade show in Frankfurt, by not just one company, but two.

Pictured above is the MG Concept. It’s a Motor Gearbox Unit, or MGU, from Avinox, the DJI spinoff that’s upe …

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