Hey, yes that is your average cadence. That is also my average cadence.
What I am talking about is exactly what you said in your answer.
To elaborate, I live just under a 1200m mountain where the WC DH races are held, the slope range goes all the way from 6% to 15%...so I have a looot of options for serious climbing.
I monitor my cadence very closely and in the really steep parts where u use a low gear higher assistance level the cadence goes beyond 120rpm(can send screenshots if you don't believe me)...so you are out of the ideal power band(high assistance) and out of ideal cadence range(low gear)...and how that feels probably you know...if not then you need to find steeper and longer hills.
One thing to have in mind, all the motors are based on sensors, one of them being the magnet. Some motors when you do a half(technical climbing) pedal stroke(magnet moves past the sensor twice in a very short time) register that as one revolution...and with such pedal strokes the cadence can rise up to 140+(like TQ mentioned they did in their tests).
The problem with any low power systems(in this case 250W limited emtb motors) is that you need to keep it in an ideal power band and so that is managed in one part with internal gearing for ideal pedaling speed(cadence) down/up gearing to match the motor speed, the other part is software/firmware that manages electric current, the voltage drops with discharge so the unless the software is smart enough to compensate with current increase then you can also feel the snall power drop in the lower third of the battery charge.
So for this/my type of riding and racing of course it would definitely be a good decision to optimize a motor for a higher ideal cadence range and some first reports do also say that it supports with the same level in higher cadence ranges.
I have only ridden the CX Performance once and ride along a friend usually so know how it sounds. Well I heard the new CX Race variant in a German yt channel in a comparison, and to it sounded quite differently(with a high pitched sound), even the revier mentioned that the best way to describe the sound is that of high powered electric RC cars.
The other thing is that Bosch didn't want to share exactly what the internal changes are even after several attempts by another German yt channel.
Well time will tell what's inside of the new motor. I know I will be riding my beast for another season and let the new stuff be beta tested by someone else, as there has been a lot of this in different tech departments...don't feel good being a test dummy for software updates etc...for this kind of money we give for ebikes...at the end they are still just a bycicle with some extra...
I don't notice any rattle!
