Originally Posted by
Calsun
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The e-bike components are improving year to year so it seems foolish to spend $8,000 on 2019 technology going into the 2020 and 2021 bikes. It seems more prudent to buy something for the short term when it comes to e-bikes and even if one spends $1,000 on repairs and parts for it over the following 2-3 years the owner still comes out ahead. Lots of opinions but nothiing in terms of real world empiracal testing of the bike components or any information on MTBF for the hub or mid drive motors or the controllers or the battery packs. It is really a crap shoot at this point in time.
well if you need reliability having to spend 1000 on parts to keep the bike going is not money well spent. my e bike is my transportation and it needs to be working every day. so far my bulls that cost 3500 has only had a cracked rim after 9000 miles. I am still on the original cassette and chain ring. I put 6000 miles a year on it and I want my bike to feel great under me.