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Old 05-18-24 | 10:45 PM
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My wife has a drop-bar Cannondale e-bike that she uses almost exclusively for commuting. It looks fairly "normal" apart from a fat down-tube. It has a Bosch mid-drive motor and conventional 105 components on an aluminum road/gravel frame. We added a rear rack for panniers.

Her commute is 10 miles each way, with about 2000 ft of climbing to get home and about 1/4 off-pavement, so it is nothing like a typical urban commute. She recently had a hip replacement and will probably need the other one done, so ergonomics was, and is, a high priority.

One of the things the more cheesy upright e-bikes have that commuters favor is a step-though frame. In retrospect, that probably would have really helped her with the hip issues, but it seems like the Venn diagram of drop-bar bikes and step-throughs looks like this:

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Found an internet pic:

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