Ifixit take on current bike/e-bike manufacturers.

  • psvrh@lemmy.ca
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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.