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Review: Ebco Urban 3R

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Rebecca Bland

Rebecca has been writing about e-bikes for four years, after a typically ill-timed career change pre-pandemic. She's been riding bikes since she can remember, and fell back in love with them after realising it was faster, cheaper, and more fun than getting the bus to work. Nowadays she enjoys all kinds of bikes, from road to eMTB and is training her border collie pup to become a trail dog. 

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2 months 3 weeks ago

9-Speed is fine for a mid drive e bike. 
An 8-speed MTB cassette is even better: you accelerate so fast on these things that you're constantly double downshifting otherwise. 
There is also the added advantage that 8speed chains and wide range cassettes are cheap as chips. 
The bike industry and associated media have, unfortunately, taught us that 'more gears is better' which with a high power e bike is emphatically not the case. 

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