It's also considerably heavier. The amount of effort you'd have to put into it (after downshifting) will proably at best give you one or two mph. As for bike behavior, I and many other cyclists consistently have to deal with slow cyclists taking up the entire lane. This is not unique to Ebikers in fact much more common to those without as there are far less on the roads I ride on (SF daily commuter)

Yeah; that happens in south bay too. The difference is that I'm usually done after passing them once, :-)

Yes, it is at least 10 kilos havier than a regular bicycle of the same design.