steve_sordy
Wedding Crasher
The inertia of the motor is minimal compared to the inertia of the bike and you together rolling at speed. If you can maintain the speed, you will get over the humps. Try physically boosting the bike with your body weight at the bottom of the "down" to add some oomph to the roller coaster "up".Here's another way on e8000 to maximize what the motors inertia will accomplish for you is if you go out riding on relatively up and not too steep but a roller coaster type of stuff and you'll find that if you let the bike slow down too much on the way up the hill vis-à-vis what gear you're in you will not be able to turn the cranks it'll just get slower and slower and you'll get weaker and weaker whereas if you can match this inertial spin of the e8000 motor perfectly you can use all of this passive energy to get you to the top of the hill. In fact if you're looking to train a perfect stroke that has equal pressure in all 360° try doing that on an e-bike with the motor off.
I can feel the resistance to pedalling above the cut off speed. But what else to expect on a bike that weighs twice as much and with big fat sticky tyres with low pressures? When my first emtb Summer came, I refitted the fast-rolling tyres the bike came with and I could pedal 1mph faster. I increased the tyre pressures a fair bit and I went faster again. It is still a big heavy bike though! it sounds like you are comparing your emtb to your mtb. Ignore what the emtb does worse than the mtb. Instead embrace and take pleasure what it does better!