Remind me how Amflow will deal with these specs that are well above pedelec limitations in EU, please.
@pagheca - it's a fair thing to flag, but the good news is those numbers aren't a problem. The Amflow is a fully EU-legal pedelec, and here's why the 125Nm / 1100W figures don't put it over the line.
The thing the law actually regulates is
continuous rated power and
assist cut-off speed - not torque, and not peak power. EN 15194 describes the maximum continuous rated motor power (0.25 kW) and the 25 km/h assistance limit as the defining technical parameters for EPACs.
Torque doesn't appear in the regulation at all, and neither does peak wattage. So the two figures that scared you:
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1100W is
peak power - a short burst, not sustained output. The law limits the motor's sustained output to 250W, but it says nothing about its peak power - a perfectly legal e-bike motor can, and often does, produce a peak output of 600W or more for short bursts, such as when accelerating from a stop or tackling a steep climb.
The Avinox is rated at 250W continuous like every other EU pedelec motor; the 1100W is the headline burst number, exactly the same way Bosch, Shimano and Specialized quote theirs.
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125Nm torque - simply not regulated. There's no torque ceiling in EN 15194, which is why 150Nm+ motors are sold all over Europe perfectly legally.
The one limit that
does bite is the speed cut-off, and that's the one you already know from your Powerfly: the 25 km/h limit cuts motor assistance, not speed - you can absolutely go faster than 25 km/h on a pedelec, downhill, with a tailwind, by pedalling hard; what the law requires is that the motor stop helping once you're at 25 km/h.
The EU version of the Amflow will have its assist clocking off at 25km/h just like your Trek does - which, incidentally, ties straight back to Zimmerframe's gearing point earlier: above 25km/h on the flat it's all legs, no motor.
As
@Mikerb's post puts it well, the pedelec definition is about the bike's specification, not how fast you happen to ride it. So the short version:
a 125Nm / 1100W-peak motor is entirely within EU pedelec law, provided the continuous rating is 250W and assist cuts at 25km/h - and the EU-spec Amflow will be built exactly to that. The only way to fall foul is to derestrict it, which turns it into an S-pedelec and a legal headache. Don't.