Looks familiar to me, living surrounded by the steepest area of the North Downs. I don't have so many of those long middling climbs. More a mixture of the short to middle distance very steep ones, the very long gentle ones that go on for miles and a smaller number like those you show.
The effect is the same though, often much shorter ranges than others get in their areas with given bike models. The only bikes that successfully get round that are those with the Panasonic motor. When I bought my Lafree years ago, A to B in the very flat Somerset levels where they used to be got a range of around 20 to 22 miles from that, and I assumed mine would be much shorter in my hilly area.
In fact I was astonished to find I had exactly the same range, 20 to 22 miles. That's just down to the clever software, since not only were my conditions much hiller, but I am more than 20 years older than David at A to B, and nowhere near as strong a rider.
And of course, the Kalkhoff has now performed the same magic. Mind you, they do make one work a bit harder. Unlike with a hub motor, the rider has to do their half, there's no copping out.
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