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The Powerfly 5 would be fine for riding you plan to do ie exploring forest tracks and forest roads. For MTB park riding you would want to go up a level or two in spec. One thing to try is bike with dropper seat, you will need to do an hour or 2 of riding to get hang of it. They were designed...

Try alternating chainring sizes eg 15-18 every time you replace chains should spread wear between few gears. I find on road that I ride at 22-27km/h spending most of my time between 2 gears. Long term Rohloff hub would be ideal but for price you can buy a lot of cassettes and chains.

Also try dropping tyre pressure, 30psi good place to start. You have motor so rolling resistance isn't an issue and range doesn't seem to be for most of your rides.

I've just bought powerfly 7, nice bike which I got at good price, but those UK prices are very steep. Unfortunately Cubes are limited to 115kg as they are normally excellent value. Before looking further test ride a few bikes, will give you some idea of what you like or dislike.

Specialized Levo family are rated for 136kg, Trek 136kg, Cube 115kg. As others have stated the bikes are designed to can carry these weights with hard riding over most extreme terrain, another 10-20kg shouldn't be problem for gentle forest trail riding.

Visit a few shops get some expert advice and most importantly do some test rides up steep hills.

Sounds like you need eMTB. Most use torque sensing middrive motor compared to cadence sensing hub on Bear. You need to test ride a few bikes to understand difference.

Don't store them fully charged. 60-80% is ideal. Best to fully charge and take for 30minute ride to bring them back to 60-80%.

Don't overlook the Magura HSxx rim brakes , they are very good, definitely match for 160mm discs. Maintenance is lower than discs, I'm regularly sortout sticky pistons on disc brakes.

The Delite is perfect long distance tourer and car replacement. It's the only FS ebike tourer that I know of. Dual batteries and 25kg rack which benefits from suspension is unique. After riding FS and Hardtail eMTB on rougher roads there is no comparsion in ride quality. Quality suspension...

My better half has been kind enough to give me OK to buy another ebike. I was originally looking at 700c wheel trekking bikes for touring and commuting before settling on hardtail. Was going be Powerfly 5 but they didn't have my size, what a bugger having to upgrade, just have to make do with...

7000kms, all changed at 0.75mark along with chainring. Would be interesting to try Shimano chain for mileage which are bit cheaper, but don't want to risk a broken chain.

My bike came with KMC e11 and I'm onto 5th chain. No breakages which is saying something as CX motor can very hard on chains.

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What did you think of Nevo?.

Thanks for link just ordered one. At USD2.00 delivered hard to go wrong.

My wife switched from 28" step through to 26" Reptila. The frame worked out to be lot better fit for her, smaller wheels make for shorter wheel base, tighter turning circle. Handlebars are lower along with rack, low centre of gravity helps with handling. With 28" she kind of sat in bike instead...

Reviews on new Brose motor in Levos is excellent, power delivery is meant to be as good as or better than CX and Shimano. CX is still excellent motor and extra drag after 25kmh cutoff is never really an issue MTBing. You are either climbing under power or freewheeling downhill. Any pedalling...

Being able to swap batteries is big plus, one reasons for wife's new ebike. Your range is limited by combined capacity not single battery. I typically use 1/3 less than her.

Your lucky, mine always happen in the rain.