BEAUTIFUL day for a 14mile trip up the local river trail & back! Pedals are nice for standing on and helping get up a hill now & then, but this ride was mostly the work of the 15 pounds of copper mass in the direct drive Tidalforce motor. Kept it out of turbo mode, as 20mph is just fine (and legal) for this California bike path. After a trip to lunch and the grocery store afterwards, I had used about 13ah of the 20ah A123 pack. The frame is a steel EV Global, brought to market by auto icon Lee Iacocca in the heyday of ebikes.