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tony8669 posted...

So is it like you're pedaling and it assists you, or are you pretty much just steering while it does everything?

It has five levels of pedal assist and a throttle so I can do either. However since using full power burns through the battery extremely quickly, it was rare that I ever rode on anything but the minimum amount of assistance which only helped enough to mitigate the high weight of the bike and my cargo.

Based on some testing I did going full throttle on relatively flat land would drain the battery after a mere 20 miles or so, which would be about 1.25-1.50 hours of riding. It takes about 6 hours to fully charge the battery and there were many, many times I was in areas where there were no places to charge the bike that frequently or for that long. Riding on the lowest level of assist would let me travel roughly 45-50 miles based on things like wind and hills over the course of 4-5 hours so it evened things out much better. I would often try to stop after about 30 miles and charge it for an hour or two at a time to add some extra miles to the total instead of charging it all at once too, unless I knew I was planning on staying somewhere with electricity that night.