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Bike Manufacturers Are Making Bikes Less Repairable (www.ifixit.com)

submitted 1 day ago by plactagonic@sopuli.xyz to c/bicycles@lemmy.ca

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Ifixit take on current bike/e-bike manufacturers.

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[–] lgsp@feddit.it 6 points 1 day ago

The additional complexity and manteinance needed by ebikes is the major factor that scares me, more than price.

I want to do as little manteinance to my bike as possible, to be able to do it on my own, and ebikes don't look like something that would allow me to do so, at the moment