Ok here's the situation, Mrs Smudge doesn't ride bicycles, she famously fell off during her cycling proficiency and there her interest in and use of bicycles ended.
She has however since ridden motorcycles briefly, now for various reasons we don't need to go into here, we're considering a range of travel options, one of which is an E-bike for her (as according to the Brompton Nano website pedelec is not a legal requirement in the UK and it can be ridden on a twistgrip "throttle" in the manner of a motorcycle)
Given that we live at the top of a serious 2 mile hill, my question is, does anyone know if an E-Bike (and I'm thinking initially here of a Brompton with a Nano conversion, though it's all brainstorming at this stage) with rider and a daysack will climb hills at useable speed purely on the electric motor? (I'm planning for worst case naturally!.)
If they can do that, do they have the "oomph" (I know, too much technical jargon;-)) to tow a child trailer as well?
They're a nice idea, and the principle is good, but never having used one I've no real idea of the performance.
Incidentally, we are talking purely about e-bikes within the legal limits, no high power off road specials unfortunately :-(
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