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It does depend on what gear you are in. Shimano Walk is easiest to use compared Bosch CX and Activeline. All much same when active.

Assist on bosch starts fading at 25kph and is gone by 27kph. Shimano STEPS cutoff is bit sharper, one of nice things about Bosch.

Gen2 activeline is 48nm, new Gen3 is 40nm. Found the motor specs, Performance line 63nm is detuned to 50nm. The activeline plus with hub is still 50nm but turbo assist level eg 270% reduced slightly.

I knew they detuned the performance line 63nm but thought activeline 48nm was left as is. This may explain why my wifes activeline with nexus 8 doesn't have poke of Shimano Steps on old bike. NB detuning performance line kind defeats purpose of using that motor, may as well used activeline. If...

When road riding I spend a lot of time between 2 gears around 20-26km/h. This greatly increases wear rate of these gears, their low teeth count doesn 't help. With normal bike my riding would be spread across lot more gears as there is no motor to help with hills. IGH is probably best option...

It can get fully laden bike up stairs.

2x11 or 2x10 with Di2 shifting is way to go if you have budget.

You shouldn't any problems getting started, just make sure you are low gear. If bike has IGH then even better as you can shift when stopped.

The main performance difference between two bikes is superior MT5 brakes and slightly better Gold fork. I've silver on normal bike and is good fork. Easy enough to upgrade brakes, 2×SLX is £150, not quite as good as MT5 but lot better than M315. Powertube is nice integration but Race Powerpack...

At least my got to 4000kms with lot MTBing, but it didn't have seal. Such early failure with seal is not good news.

Tested mine without chain. Given pedal good push it will do 2.5 revs, same in both directions.

I've gone through 2 chains on 11spd 11-46t, still going strong so gave to my son for his normal MTB.

Yours has seal, black rubber/plastic at end of drive splines. Easy to remove, just ply out carefully with small screw driver. Clean in behind, repack with grease and press seal back in place. Best to replace seal every few times. My wifes 2017 Activeline also have this seal. Being fair weather...

Its OK with me while under warranty, just shaved 4000kms off odometer.

The weather gods a good at that.

Do you offer a complete parts list online along with repair manuals. Sourcing and fitting common bike components like gears and brakes is easy. Its frame specfic parts that are problem like suspension pivot point bearing kits, hangers etc and torque settings for installing them. Being able to...

The new black bearing seal is shaped to fit in splines, there isn't one in your picture. If crank spins freely without a chain should be OK. Shop said my was tough to turn hence replacement motor. I did worry about what happens outside warranty. A couple members have changed bearing...

Buy her one

If you lift your budget to £1700-2000 then there are quite a few factory middrive eMTBs to choose from eg Cube Trek, KTM Will need to add £140 for dongle.

The 25km/h cutoff make sense on busy european city cyclesays at rushhour. 25km/h is about average for unassisted commuter bikes. I can see why europeans came up with that speed. In states where cycleways are less common 32km/h is lot safer especially on road. Problem is having fast bikes...