i think you're confusing me with someone else - i've never had an electric bike. 'old bike' would be the one i was using all last year. it's a faux-hybrid i bought from one of the sports-gear box stores. but the coda's a replacement for it, yeah. the deal i made with myself this time last year was that if i used that one regularly enough to say i commute by bike, then i could get myself a real one. and now i need it because it's the same old commute plus baseball season and my body has to hold up for a full year

i don't know what the explanation is for that can't-stand-on-pedals thing, but i had it with all the comfort/touring/commuter configurations that i tried out. i mean, you can stand up, but you just seem to get taller and move closer to the handlebars. something makes it so that you can't compensate for it by changing the angle of your torso. i mentioned it to the more open-minded and problem-solving bike sellers, but it seemed to make them go blank. just couldn't seem to get anybody to find me the right thing. in retrospect, i think i should have gone into every store and said 'i'm gonna buy that coda just up the road unless you can show me something to change my mind.' it might have put the people i talked to into a closer ballpark for what i was looking for.