Experience with hub-drives with BOTH torque- and cadence-sensing assist?

[Stefan Mikes]

Good to hear the new e-bike was found!

The former's trottle performance, though still weaker than we're used to, was much better on this one.

Hopefully, your wife will learn the joys of pedalling soon! Did you try a significant hill climbing?
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As a completely unrelated sidenote: As you know Jeremy, I often rent a public share (throttle only) e-scooter when visiting big cities. These such as Lime/Uber (and others) are legally limited to 20 km/h and generally perform very well unless you hit a significant incline. On one morning, I rode an e-scooter to a shopping mall located down in the valley in Warsaw to buy some Nespresso capsules. As I was returning, I had to climb the Warsaw Escarpment with the e-scooter. It was climbing very very slowly; the battery died just 100 metres before the summit!

On the other hand, I did something I was absolutely not proud of! I was riding my brand new Lovelec (a hub drive motor e-bike) up the Agrykola in Warsaw (a short 5.2% climb), Of course, Lovelec had no throttle.

Even if the max motor power was 250 W, I was accelerating uphill, and rode into a female cyclist preceding me! She was furious and shouting: 'I could understand anything but not the fact you were accelerating up that hill!'

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Hopefully, your wife will learn the joys of pedalling soon! Did you try a significant hill climbing?

She already enjoys pedaling. But she's not a strong rider, and her aging hip joints are a lot happier when she accepts some help from the throttle on our many hills.

As you know, a well-implemented throttle allows you to layer in as much extra power as you like on top of (not just in lieu of) pedaling. That's how she does it.