E-Bikes are sometimes refused at bike shops, and there are good reasons for this. It’s not all E-Bikes, and it’s not all bike shops, which is why I made this video to explain the issue.
Here’s the video where I fixed that dead E-bike
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My local bike shops won't even service my ebike. And it's a Shimano drivetrain, not OEM or Chinese
I worked at a bike shop this summer and GOD DAMNED these cheap shitty e-bikes are a nightmare.
Love your videos you got me back into bikes and now I've jumped to 2 stroke bicycles and I agree with that statement a lot of people don't have the stomach to just look around there stuff they bought
Find a HAM shop, EAA chapter, old TV/electronic repair shop. They can diagnose it faster than most bike shops who don't know anything about electronics.
Sadly cheaper ebikes only work for the DIY types. Me and my 15yo fix e-bikes and e-motos all the time. FYIW the batteries come in about 4 types and are pretty easy to find replacements.
Even the big brands are using off the shelf controllers etc from bosh, shimano, etc.
The issue with batteries. A company finds a supplier in China, does a certification process, and the company starts making it. First few orders are 100% in spec. Then they quietly start source cheaper suppliers, cheaper cells, without telling the company that is buying them. Companies need to start randomly testing random samples and fully dismantling a couple from each batch.
Now I have opened up batteries and replaced cells and put them back together…. but I get it most DIYers even will not go deep inside batteries.
Paid E-bike video consults with Seth is where the future is headed.
You say it's the insurance companies on repeat but, the companies enjoy monopolizing the repair as well.
They know bike shops refuse to fix them so, they make more money having specific places fix them, or send them parts for $$$
Just don't by American brands to prevent software locks. And by bikes with Bosch, Shimano, Yamaha, en some other universal brand motors also to prevent software locks.
I like that you used a Lime bike wheel to illustrate the problem of a flat tire.
Seems to me it just opens up opportunities for ebike specific sale & repair place . They can employ a electronics person over a bike shop employing a bike repair guy . The built up knowledge of a electronics guy will outweigh a bike repair guy.
I've had pretty good experience with Aventon. I had an issue on my Abound SR with what turned out to be the battery connector. I'm medium competent on bike stuff and their support was more than happy to talk at that level. We replaced the handlebar computer, battery, power controller, and eventually the problematic battery connector, all under warranty. They have very comprehensive video tutorials and manuals for how to replace everything on the bike and it's clear they designed everything for user serviceability. I do wish their shipping was faster (they only offer ground, and they don't ship on weekends). My local certified repair shop says they don't get spare parts from Aventon without having to buy them up-front, so they don't carry spares, so I was out of commission for 3 weeks over 4 shipments as we diagnosed the problem.
Simple, because they have a explosive personality.
I just take my Aventon to the dealer for maintenance. No big deal.
It has never actually broke though, after 3000 km.
$125 an hour for bike labor. Insanity. Literally everything is a total ripoff nowadays
Привет из России!
Я работаю мастером по ремонту и с поправкой на русскую специфику, видео верно на 100000% (я плакал, когда его смотрел)
*По поводу специфики:
В Россию у вас будут проблемы с ремонтом дорогих брендов, т.к. официальных мастерских практически нет.
Но зато проблем со страховыми у вас тоже не будет, ну и т.к. труд стоит меньше, у вас больше шансов починить дешёвый велосипед 😂
To be fair, to work legally on the high voltage systems of electric cars, in many parts of the world, you need specialized certification. This could be the same thing in many places as well.
“If you’re a bike shop”?
No one is a bike shop.
I take mine to an ebike shop. I think I only had my battery worked on once. THey usually just work on the mechanics and get it ready for the season.
There's an ebike shop a quarter mile from my house. They advertise on their own sign, they will fix and/or repair anything ebike make or model. Whether you bought it there or not.
Not all shops are built the same
The issue is fundamentally that modern batteries are pretty decent incendiary bombs and very hard to extinguish when they burn and water only makes it worse. And while the issue is not that bad while it's one ebike that gets taken care of in your garage, it's very bad when it's 50 ebikes in different states of disrepair in a bike shop and if one battery blows up all the others can catch fire too.
We need to have consumer grade batteries that can take a beating and don't explode while still affordable.
The irony is that every ad served up to me on this video was for fly by night ebikes.
I think large battery are a major problem, as last week a pregnant lady with her two year old son in her battery car on the highway, as the car cut fire and lady and kid died in the burning car, how many battery bike cut fire of overheating battery ???
yeah bike shops don't know shit about ebikes and will just replace proprietary parts and charge you premium for that
facebook market guys, there is more and more experts repairing ebikes escooter EUCs at home and they're crafty, a bike shop will just make you pay for their walls and everyone knows walls are a luxury these days
the bike shop near me wouldnt even look at my ebike even tho it just needed derailer adjustment… even if i took my battery out then it would of just been a regular bike.. this forced me to learn and fix my derailer myself. now i dont even need a abike shop
That’s why my hobby fixing e-bikes is going so good.
I repack dead battery packs with OEM standards (yes it costed me some money to buy necessary equipment).
I charge 100€ + materials costs to give you back a new battery. It takes about 1hr of work and 5 hrs on automatic testing stand to make charge discharge charge test.
Easy job