Something looks odd about this picture, it doesn't seem real, like it's photoshopped or something. His left foot looks like it's floating off the ground.
Proven wrong?
Even you know that those caps are purely for preload on a standard bike crank and don't even serve any purpose on an ebike except to fill in the blank space!
Who cares if the aluminium caps come off, you’re such a tool. The caps aren’t even needed on an ebike, you can take them out and throw them away!
Now your a metallurgist too, you’ve done lab tests on Miranda cranks and Shimano ones excellent work.
So you’re knocking cheap Chinese components...
I only ever wanted them for bling factor, to this day they have never been fitted and I've swapped out 3 sets of cranks!
Why have they never been fitted...because with my mechanical engineering degree I decide to compare them to the original plastic Shimano ones and found that the aluminium ones...
It depends on the chainring you choose, I fitted a Snail brand from ebay, it's performed faultlessly and held up to some abuse and quite a few kms. It does only just catch the chainstay by a bees dick but it must be due to frame flex as when you're off the bike there's a couple of mil clearance...
Pretty sure his comment is thread related as opposed to yours, if you need alloy caps to hold them on then you're doing something wrong just like Dan stated!
Are you able to bleed them like a Sram dropper post by pulling a vacuum with one syringe at the caliper and pushing oil in at the lever?
That method is awesome for getting all the air out!
I've read where others are omitting it, personally if it was mine I'd pin it so it can't come lose such as drilling a hole the spider and installing a roll pin in the nut cutout.
Exact same here, my E160 900e has been faultless, just charge and ride charge and ride. I sold my very expensive hardly ever ridden Intense Carbine Pro Build just last week because it just wasn't getting ride time.
I ordered some directly from the manufactures website, they're not usually out of stock for long and they arrive really fast as they use Fedex to send them.