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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
What's the height difference between you and your wife?
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I am 5' 9" and she is 5' 4". So she pretty much has the seat all the way down, and I have it as high as it can go. I would probably have the seat an inch or two higher if I could, but I run out of post length.
I did a full commute with the ebike last week. I did find out exactly how it behaves. There are power assist levels of 1-5; each one will help you up to a certain speed:
1 helps to about 13 km/h
2 helps to about 18
3 helps to 24
4 helps to 28
5 helps to 32 (which is the max power assist.)
The good and bad with that- unless you are traveling at almost one of those threshold speeds, you either get pretty much full assist or none. At 23 km/h I found it would give me around 10% power to keep me along if I was on level 3. But at 25 km/h it gave no assistance. Going to level 4 the bike would always try to get me up closer to 28 km/h.
On the ride home keeping pace with a buddy on a regular bike, I found I would more often use a lower power mode, and then if I needed to catch up I would just feather the throttle. This is still going to be great for my wife to go on rides with me; however I am starting to question how much it would help me as a "medium" cyclist keep up to somebody much more advanced. (Short of using a tonne of power, which defeats the purpose of riding.)