Yeah, I was on the verge of buying one too. Hearing that made me go back to the drawing board and do a ton more research on what ebikes were more repairable. We really need a right to repair law for ebikes. Most conventional bikes are super easy to repair.
I've heard sketchy things about Ride1Up from a bike mechanic in one of my local mountain bike chats. He said something about them using proprietary spokes and the shop having to throw hands with the OEM. Took two months for them to get the spokes mailed into the shop.
That put me off of buying R1U. The two brands I considered buying from were Juiced Bikes and Aventon, both of which I grilled and cross examined closely with their support teams. Juiced seems to be using a fairly good number of relatively off the shelf or replaceable parts. Some third party sites sell stuff like planar gears for the motors, and Juiced itself reuses a lot of parts across its product stack (wheels, displays, batteries (and XLR chargers), throttles, motor controllers, all of which can be bought on the site)
Aventon is a bit less repairable yourself, but has shop support all over. They were committed to keeping batteries for a number of years, but they aren't standardized across the lineup.
In the end, I went with Juiced and have put 634 miles on my bike in the past few months, largely without issue (some of the factory screws were too tight and stripped when I was replacing my motor controller with a more powerful variant. Other than that, no issue)
That is fucking nuts. Four or five motors is insane, and sounds like the manufacturer really cheaped out. My cheap bafeng motor (and entire rear wheel) costs $450. Same torque, and water resistant with an IP rating. $700+ for a motor that has bad bearings and no water resistance and a faulty PCB...
Make your shit more repairable, and don't burn goodwill by churning out motors that fail and turn people off of biking.
Bafeng isn't great on repairs outside of warranty, but at least there are sites that sell replacement motors, planar gears, etc.
I think there are many great filters, but I think one of those filters is fighting over limited resources and wars. Perhaps limited to humans/earth, but I doubt it. Nukes, dropping rocks from orbit, and theoretical (but possible) weapons like black hole bombs are all going to tempt irrational beings to take someone's stuff.
We have to be extremely careful that we don't accidentally trigger a weapon that is going to kill or dramatically cripple our civilization before we become a truly interstellar species. There is so much to learn out there, while so many people are currently focused on the wrong things such as minor conflicts or what children aren't allowed to learn.
Aren't people sick of war? The last thing I would want is another war tearing my country apart. Lebanon has had terrible things happen to it in the past. Just...chill. Nothing good will come from war.
Looks cool, but constant connectivity is a non-starter. We've seen what happens when the company's servers go down when they go bankrupt. You end up with a bricked bike.
Google can't even block yiff with safe search, lol. AI has incredible difficulty with evaluating furry porn. Which means that Mitch McConnell is going to live out his final days looking at anthropomorphic hyenas that could benchpress a fridge and have 11 inches of freedom, lmao.
Generations of southerners and people in the central US are going to be looking at considerable amounts of yiff if conservatives have their way.
