There are too many variables that effect the overall mileage from a full battery charge. Wind, rain, mud, and lovely sunshine etc, each throw up different challenges.
Then there is the terrain itself and elevation gain. Many of my rides are pretty steep, and often slippery. Start throwing rooted sections into the equation where you can't get a smooth flow together, and things change again. Often my rides might end up just having an average speed of say 7-8mph over a 20-30 mile distance, but the top speed might be in the mid forties.
Personal fitness level also plays a massive part, and obviously the less assistance that you are able to use, the greater distance that you are going to cover. I do try not to labour the motor though.
I reckon that I could pretty much guarantee that if you were to come on a ride with me, that you bikes performance wouldn't be any better, and in the case of some that have joined me, their performance has been significantly worse, and have needed the use of a second Bosch battery to finish the ride, when I have returned after having only used half of my capacity.
I've not ridden off road for a couple of weeks now due to knee injury caused from a fall, and whilst I am on Naproxen to keep the swelling down, I still need to cycle to keep my fitness up, in readiness for the Swiss trip. I have been going out on the ladies KTM Macina road bike with it's active line motor, and even on that, with my current level of injury, I'm struggling to get much more than 30 miles out of a full charge of battery. At my normal fitness level, I reckon that 50 miles, might just about be obtainable if using eco and no assist. Riding somewhere flat such as your cannel two pathways could see this reach perhaps 100 miles, but as the ride average speed would be over that of the assist level, so this wouldn't be surprising.
Get Strava and show your rides to compare terrain etc, or even better join me at an organised event. I reckon that you will be shocked by the poor range that you would get.
Conditions like this, murder the battery.
The stats for this year aren't really that interesting yet, and my knees can't hack anything much over 40miles. If they could, then I wouldn't even be bothering with an e-mtb. As it is, I already switch between pedal and e-mtb, and prefer pedal power.
If and when I get the motor back, the real test will be in a couple of weeks time, when I return here.
I puked up, riding up this last year on the pedal mtb.
Not the easiest of climbs!
Then there is the terrain itself and elevation gain. Many of my rides are pretty steep, and often slippery. Start throwing rooted sections into the equation where you can't get a smooth flow together, and things change again. Often my rides might end up just having an average speed of say 7-8mph over a 20-30 mile distance, but the top speed might be in the mid forties.
Personal fitness level also plays a massive part, and obviously the less assistance that you are able to use, the greater distance that you are going to cover. I do try not to labour the motor though.
I reckon that I could pretty much guarantee that if you were to come on a ride with me, that you bikes performance wouldn't be any better, and in the case of some that have joined me, their performance has been significantly worse, and have needed the use of a second Bosch battery to finish the ride, when I have returned after having only used half of my capacity.
I've not ridden off road for a couple of weeks now due to knee injury caused from a fall, and whilst I am on Naproxen to keep the swelling down, I still need to cycle to keep my fitness up, in readiness for the Swiss trip. I have been going out on the ladies KTM Macina road bike with it's active line motor, and even on that, with my current level of injury, I'm struggling to get much more than 30 miles out of a full charge of battery. At my normal fitness level, I reckon that 50 miles, might just about be obtainable if using eco and no assist. Riding somewhere flat such as your cannel two pathways could see this reach perhaps 100 miles, but as the ride average speed would be over that of the assist level, so this wouldn't be surprising.
Get Strava and show your rides to compare terrain etc, or even better join me at an organised event. I reckon that you will be shocked by the poor range that you would get.
Conditions like this, murder the battery.
The stats for this year aren't really that interesting yet, and my knees can't hack anything much over 40miles. If they could, then I wouldn't even be bothering with an e-mtb. As it is, I already switch between pedal and e-mtb, and prefer pedal power.
If and when I get the motor back, the real test will be in a couple of weeks time, when I return here.
I puked up, riding up this last year on the pedal mtb.
Not the easiest of climbs!
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