Ifixit take on current bike/e-bike manufacturers.

  • psud@aussie.zone
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    15 days ago

    When you crack your carbon frame you can move the other gear to the new frame (though it’s a bit tatty and the new SRAM drivetrain is so much cooler than the old one

    (I buy a frameset and whatever specialist gear from a manufacturer and have a local bike mech turn it into a bike, I reckon I’m pretty safe from the problem as long as I’m able to run human powered)

    • dorkage@lemmy.ca
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      15 days ago

      Except if they change BB or axle spacing standards, which seems to be happening every few years.

      I struggled to find a half decent 135 QR 29er wheel last year for my Trek Xcaliber. A nearly $2000CDN bike from 2016 with nothing wrong except the free hub, and everywhere told me to just get a new bike.

      I like my bikes, but I really hate the people running the industry.

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        14 days ago

        Trek is particularly bad about this: they now sell a “platform” instead of a bike. This makes it comparably hard to get replacements for a Domane or CheckPoint because certain parts are sized for that bike and that bike only.

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          14 days ago

          But a 135 QR 29er wheel isn’t that special, so finding one that wasn’t either a junk hub or $600 hub shouldn’t have been an issue. Even finding TA non boost wheels is becoming difficult.

          I ended up finding a lightly used Nukeproof wheel for around $100.

          Thankfully the fork on that same bike is just using off the shelf SRAM parts.

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            14 days ago

            I’m a road bike guy, so that’s probably my ignorance showing. I’ve sat out the recent evolution in MTB stuff.