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I feel the ideal situation for an ebike is for riding in hilly places. If you’re riding flatter trails you may find you can pedal faster than the motor which kinda defeats the point. My dad loves his roady ebike but he is nearly 80 and lives in the Pennines so that’s an ideal situation. Unless you REALLY want an ebike you could get a MUCH better specced normal bike for the price. 

You can get two types they refer to as either full fat or half fat, that Giant looks like a full fat bike but as it's a hardtail it doesn't matter as much as you've not got the extra weight from the rear suspension to deal with.  Can ask my lad what the motors are like as he works with ebikes a lot, that would be the deciding factor for me or can see what he'd recommend based on your budget, definitely don't want to go full sus?   

Howdy folks! I started a new job last month and they operate a cycle2work scheme - I'm waiting to hear the budget, since the old flyer said £1000 max (and I was told it was more, they just need to confirm it). I'm very lucky to get a monthly allowance to spend which works out at £216 a month, so assuming the max budget is half decent, I can spend £2,600 for the year without having to add any of my own cash at the end. I've seen this one on clearance which would be well within my allowance (any allowance not spent is added to my pension, so I don't necessarily have to max out the price to spend it all): https://www.giant-bicycles.com/gb/fathom-eplus-3 I'm out of the loop on mountain bikes and I've never been in the loop on electric ones. I'll use my "proper" mountain bike for places like Bike Park Wales, so the plan for the e-MTB is to put some miles down on road and trails, not serious downhill stuff (and I know what you're thinking - no I don't want a roadie / hybrid / gravel, not my bag really). Any tips welcomed, whether I should spend more and add cash to it or if for my simple requirements, a cheaper one will do the job... Cheers!

Torx. Couldn't tell you what size though I'm afraid...

I've never had any skipping on my i9. I took all the grease out of the ratchet ring and put a drop of chain lube in there, so it's almost dry.