Walk Assist does not start on small gears

[MAster]

Hi everyone,
I bought myself a Slash+ 2025 7.9 and do have some curiosity.
When I try to use the walk mode on smaller gears, nothing happens or the bike jumps and does not move on. The retailer tells me this is normal for the small TQ motor, I can not believe this - to be honest…
Also when I test rode the bike, i experienced this “jump” when peddeling harder.

Any suggestions or advice?

Do you folks have the same behavior?

Best

Jonathan

Find here a video that shows the issue:

IMG_6075.mov

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IMG_6092.mp4

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[whitymon]

The walk mode works perfectly fine on the Slash+, your retailer as nearly all are just saying nonsense.

First, you are right to place it in the lower cog, not sure I use the smallest one but definitely if you use a big cog, the bike will not move.

There is a little thing to do so, you need to enable the walk mode and, hard to explain, tap it again or double tap, keep the button press and the bike will fly. I don't paid attention anymore as it is now muscle memory but it save me in several occasion on some trail where I had to fallback to hill .

It is definitely not intuitive, hard to keep your thumb on it on climb or at the very least require some time to be accustomed to.
Try on flat ground, when you will understand how it works you will say "Oh okay!"

 

[MAster]

Hi, as you see in the video I do the double tap (with about 0.5s of release).
Here in a different gear it works fine.

IMG_6093.mov

Different gear

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But again it does first a jump start.

 

[whitymon]

Not totally sure what you are referring to jump.

What is true is that on the smallest cog, tons of torque is applied at first and if the bike is not moving there will be some kind a "oh this is really fast", it felt like turbo++ as it was standing.

Again I never use it on flat but on steep section where this feeling just does not exist. Usually, I push the bike and activate the walk mode and I assure you it works really well up to the hill.
Major point to me is that this is just non ergonomic and I just cannot keep the button press correctly for too long.

But the motor do not stop if you continue to move with the bike, again on flat ground try it on a long parking lot place you will see it.

What you can do, assuming you think you have an issue is, stand next to the bike, with one hand lift the rear, enable the walk mode and the rear wheel will spin.

If you do have get what I tried to describe well you have definitely an issue as I just tested for you in my garage