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Thanks you all so much for your advice and thoughts, I'm going to give the bike a bit more time and hopefully I adjust to it and see its benefits. Perhaps it's just a steeper learning curve with the Captus, on the Array I mostly used Gears 3 and 4 only switching to higher when going downhill, I use gear 2 for one really steep climb other than that its 3 and 4. With the Captus I feel like I need to be way more pro active in switching between gears more often, but I do find it quite clunky at switching gears especially on the hills if I'm peddling hard it feels like im going to break the chain or something. My Battery is the 300w version. I'm a bit of a n00b bike rider, I really liked the simplicity of the Array. I like things simple and easy...

Thanks for the responses, I understand it's at the bottom of Bosch range but according to the guy in the shop selling me the bike and this review of my old bike https://ebiketips.road.cc/content/reviews/electric-city-bikes/raleigh-array-700 It seems my previous ebike had only 25nm of torque so I'm trying to figure why this feels more challenging.... It had a front driven emotion motor. On the Bosch if i have a hill start it can be quite hard to get going, the other bike was much better... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I had a Raleigh Array Crossbar and unfortunately it was stolen from me, luckily the insurance paid out so I thought I'd upgrade. I chose what I thought would be an upgrade in the Raleigh Captus which features a Bosch Active Line, there's many aspects that I do see as an upgrade like the hydraulic brakes, the Bosch intuvia display but I must admit I'm not impressed with the Bosch Active Line mid motor, my Raleigh Array would breeze me up hills with a minimum sweat but with this one I'm really struggling and getting to work all sweaty... The reason I got an ebike... With the Array it had 5 levels of assist...and I had it on level 3 pretty much all the time besides one BIG climb when I maxed it to 5, with the Captus I'm trying it on Tour but get rather sweaty and heavy breathing... Sport/Turbo feel the same to me and I didn't really wanna max it out all the time as the battery range isn't great...like 12 miles the Range says with a full battery. Why am I finding it more difficult on what should be a better bike...as the Bosch system has more torque And should be better... Right? Or am I wrong, I'm not a big electric bike whizz tbh...but loved my Array and now I'm thinking I should of just bought the same bike...just thought it'd be an upgrade.