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

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ifixit take on current bike/e-bike manufacturers.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

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