Free update makes Cowboy e-bikes better climbers and more efficient

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

Specifically, Cowboy says its AdaptivePower 2.0 update volition assistance instrumentality riders up hills that are 50 percent steeper portion redeeming 10 percent much powerfulness connected level roads. These improvements are compared to the company’s first-generation adaptive powerfulness tech that Cowboy launched conscionable implicit a twelvemonth ago, which automatically adjusts powerfulness transportation based connected incline, headwind, oregon other hauling weight. 

As Cowboy explains it, adaptive powerfulness relies connected a proprietary (and once contested) algorithm that monitors the electrical output of the centrifugal controller and the real-time information collected from the 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 quality 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, adjacent a three-year-old Cowboy exemplary volition present person a amended thrust consciousness than erstwhile it near the accumulation line.” 

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