So, there's this 15% hill right? This is something that I could ordinarily carry my 200 pound body up quite fine at 2.5 mph-3.5 mph at a fairly steady pace. So, I try going up this hill with my bike that itself weighs an additional 70 pounds and, my god, I had to take three rest stops of like 5 minutes each to get to the top, and that was after climbing a measly 50 feet up per rest stop!
When I'm thinking another 70 pounds, I'm imagining about loading myself with 70 pounds of books or something and compared to my current body weight, it seems like it'd be fairly easy to climb. But, for some reason, it felt impossible with an electric bike. Is there something about the "continuous pulling" of a wheeled-object on a hill that significantly increases the difficulty, as opposed to the "no-load" of a person when simply standing? That is, if the person were stopped, they wouldn't naturally just start being pulled down the hill and it requires little exertion to stop, but a bicycle would.
When I'm thinking another 70 pounds, I'm imagining about loading myself with 70 pounds of books or something and compared to my current body weight, it seems like it'd be fairly easy to climb. But, for some reason, it felt impossible with an electric bike. Is there something about the "continuous pulling" of a wheeled-object on a hill that significantly increases the difficulty, as opposed to the "no-load" of a person when simply standing? That is, if the person were stopped, they wouldn't naturally just start being pulled down the hill and it requires little exertion to stop, but a bicycle would.