One would think KT PAS 4 is the % of assitance you have been more used to Peter, so you maybe should try PAS 3 more often so you still generate some input effort .

For me I ride very flat terrain and 99.9% of the time ride in PAS 1, tbh the only time I have used PAS 3 - PAS 5 is out on my 160k rides or some of my ride out into East Sx /Kent border areas. The extra power come sin handy where on the home legs when I am moreweary/ tired and use the extra power to climb up out of Hove up to the Ammex stadium via Ovingdean or the one that really does me after 130 odd km is the drag up from Bolney stage up to Handcross village.

The climb isn't overly steep but is a longer up hill drag of some 4 miles.

 

There are some short steep sections aorund the East Sx/Kent borders and after some 50 miles I find I need higher PAS on some of the country lanes up hill , Eddie Jefferies would attest to some of the steeper 15 or 17% twisting climbing sections. They are ok if you are Geraint Thomas but not I find for us mere mortals barring the mamils who like to show how beetroot red in the face they can get.

Edited July 2, 20241 yr by Nealh

KT PAS level %'s are very different to other PAS levels found on other bikes.

PAS 1 13%.

PAS 2 20%.

PAS 3 33%.

PAS 4 50%.

PAS 5 100%.

 

Yes with KT one will be putting more effort in esp on the first two PAS levels.

Brilliant - thanks Nealh that explains it. I feel like I have entered a different phase of my pedelecing journey, instead of seeing how fast I can go I am seeing how little assistance I can use and those % levels will work very well for me