Skinnyfatbloke

Thank you both for your recommendations. The big bear ls is £700 cheaper than the Kalkhoff agattu 7. What accounts for the price difference? Does it come with a 2 year warranty on the battery? Do you get a noticeably better/more reliable/longer lasting bike by spending the extra cash? Thanks again.

Hello. I'm looking for an e-bike for my wife so that we can go out cycling together. She enjoys cycling but gets super tired super easily, and so on a regular bike hills are a complete no no. Yesterday she test rode a kalkhoff agattu 8, though if we were to go for a kalkhoff, it would have to be the 7 as our budget is about £1500+/-300. She said it was a really nicely built, comfortable bike but that it required too much of her own steam to go up hill. So my question is: what else around the same price point could we go for that a) gives more assistance on hills, and preferably b) has a throttle? She may eventually build up the strength and stamina for the peddle assist but for the foreseeable future she'll need the bike to do nearly all of the work on hills. She is 5'6" and very slim. She wants a step through town bike. Thank you very much for any ideas you can share. Some of the bikes I've seen mentioned on these forums include oxygen e-mate, roodog chic, freego Eagle. Are any of those better than a kalkhoff, particularly on hills? Finally, we live in Lancashire so if you happen to know where we might be able to try them out nearby, that would be doubly great. Thanks again.