I’ve a xc racing snake mate who is a similar age but much fitter than me for a obvious reasons.
He race’s over in isle of man predominantly,first time I ever took my ebike out he was over for the wentwood 50. So we did a warm up ride around Cwmcarn the day before, he couldn’t touch me up or down he was on a trick carbon cube 29er hardtail and he was at his very top limit on his hrm.
I was thrashing myself also but nowt compared to him.
In short a fairly decent ebike (trek powerfly 9 lt) with a decent rider is pretty quick, however Rowan Sorrell has the same bike as me and he’s quicker again, there’s always a bigger fish kinda thing.