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The electric assistance will get you up pretty much everything, even fully loaded.
The issue is the battery range - I have a Douze with electric assistance and in the winter, fully loaded (12 cases of Champagne so 120kg), I am lucky if I get 12 miles out of the battery, with 50% assistance.
In warmer months, it is better but still sub 25 miles, again with 50% assistance.
You will notice that, regardless of the make/model, range is never advertised - this is for the simple reason that most people would not buy electric if they knew how poor range was.
I was told buy Douze to buy "a couple of spare batteries" to extend my range. Batteries are 650€+VAT...
So take electric assistance with a pinch of salt and only use it to get you up big hills or start quickly at the lights. Then turn it off and pedal!
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Not sure about Mott Street, but I've ridden an unladen Bullitt up Swains Lane. 32 chainring, 1x11 MTB groupset. Still had a gear spare. You can gear them so low that it becomes as much a question of balance as it is forward progress.
They do the urban hill climb there, and there's a cargo bike category.
I commute on my Bullitt, about 6km each way. It's fine.
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Like many others in this thread, #dadlife means my next bike will probably be a Bullitt.
I’m weighing up the pros and cons of electric. Most useage would be ferrying little person back and forth to nursery, then commuting to work (about 10km a day). At weekends would like to be able to range further across London, and occasional trips out to Epping Forest. The dream is to do little overnight camping trips, but how often this would really happen I don’t know.
Would electric be a requirement for longer range trips? Could you cycle up Mott street with a toddler and fully loaded Bullit without electric?