Originally Posted by RollCNY

This is just my opinion, so feel free to ignore:
Weight distribution on the bike is a teeter-totter with one fat kid and one thin kid. Your seat is the fat kid side, your bars are the thin kid, and the pedals are the pivot point. Primarily, you have weight on your seat, but also significant weight on the pivot point, and some on the bars. Sometimes you put weight on your hands, but that should raise the fat kid in the air slightly.

I don't know if you've experienced it, but when you are seated and really pushing hard on level ground, your butt lifts slightly off the saddle. You want to find that point, and dial back from that to get some weight on your can, but not so much that your feet are just dangling meat limbs.

Battery dying, good luck.