Are you happy with your gears selection?

[33red]

I enjoy my new Ebike but i feel being a mountain bike it came with a gears selection that is not optimal.
It is a HardTail with 120 mm fork to enjoy the trails and 27.5x3.0 tires.
With 20 S, 44/32 front and the cassette was 11-36.
Using the SheldonBrown gear calculator at 80 RPM it gives me those results
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/gear-calc.html
a top speed of 43.9 Km/h and a low speed of 9.8 Km/h
with an assist that cuts at 32 Km/h a 40 T is plenty and i could use a small 30 or 28T in front
that would allow me not to drain the battery as fast and keep me enjoying the trails longer.
I feel that i had to replace my cassette with an 11-42 because i like to ride 4 hours daily, some times more
and with a 500 Wh i cannot rely too much on the battery my leg power needs to come in play.

 

[Ian Moone]

What Assist level do you use ? Maybe a lower level, less speed will get the longer range. ?

 

[indianajo]

My bodaboda came with 11-32 8 speed cassette rear and 24-32-42 front. That was about perfect for whirring up 15% grades unpowered and would go faster than I had force to pedal.
The DD hub drive I put on it came with a 14-28 7 speed freewheel. I can no longer pedal up 15% grades un-powered, and I can't pedal fast enough to help the motor at 13 mph. I've bought 3 different freewheels trying to get 11-32 or at least 12-32, but all were too thick to fit in the rear fork. **** sun & deore don't even have the thickness listed on their website spec sheet. I can't even tell if they are selling a freewheel or a cassette. Three lots of scrap steel from e-bay & amazon so far. E-bay and amazon listings have a lot of 11 speed freewheels, which is an obvious lie. Which of the 7 speeds are freewheels and which are cassettes? More lies I'm sure. I've given up on finding an 8 speed cassette thin enough to fit, and I don't see any 12-32 7 speed freewheels. By the time I find one the original 14-28 freewheel will be rusted on and won't come off.