Riding an electric Trike

JaneJones · 4 November 2024 20:45

@David_Spardo is the man to ask! He has one.

I’m not sure this is the right place for this because I bought my electric trike a couple of years ago not for sport but for insurance against being marooned far from shops if the car was off the road and also for daily exercise. However, I am learning a bit more each day about the best method of using the 5 levels of electric assistance in conjunction with the 7 derailleur gears. So far pretty straight forward. Level 5/gear 1 for the 2 10% hills (we are in between the 2 of them). Level 4/gear 4 for the long pull up the back lane, about 500 metres. If up the 2 hills and down the long one, I arrive at the turn into our drive naturally in L5/G1, no other way of doing it because of the 10% climb. . But if I go the other way round I arrive at the top of all of them to turn into the descent of the top hill in L4/G7, because there is a levelling off before I get there. But I then have to keep pedalling in order to change the gears all the way down from 7 to 1, and up the level from 4 to 5 …