A comprehensive look at my decision to replace my carbon fibre hard-tail with a heavy and fully equipped electric bike - the Specialized Tero 4.0 EQ. I will take you through the process I went through to come to the decision to part with 4.5k, why I went for Specialized, what you can expect from riding an e-bike, including the good points and the bad, as well as a direct comparison in uphill performance with a fast hard-tail.