In New Zealand all warranties are on the age of the actual part, so if it's had a replacement, it gets a fresh warranty as if new.
It prevents manufacturers from washing their hands of a poor product, they have to stand on.
It's a bit like the 'Lemon law' in America.
It always seems unfair putting pressure on the bike shops because they only supplied it (if they even did), they didn't actually make it, so a manufacturing fault isn't their fault. Plus, the money that they are allowed to process a warranty claim and actually do the warranty work is pretty...
I tried that route with Giant and it ended up with the only option being taking them to court, which is what they are hoping because the costs involved, including the time off work, adds up to more than just buying a new motor.
The whole situation is disgusting.
It ends up that the only...
Try a Giant if you really want dreadful after sales support.
We need some proper legislation, or at least proper enforcement of existing consumer legislation.
The only motor supplier that I can't fault is Polini.
It sounds like it'll do exactly what you want.
It's got roughly 20 hours of battery life so you don't empty your phone battery should you need it.
My only gripe is that it's a bit of a faff to download a route from OS maps and upload to the device. You'd think it would be more straightforward...
Shimano are very famously bad at after sales, warranty and parts supply.
They've recently announced that they're stopping the supply of the e6000-8000 series of motors. There's loads of bikes not yet three years old with the e8000 and if the motor goes, they're knackered.
Fortunately, the E8000...
I've been really impressed with how little wear I have on my XG1299 after 1400 very abrasive, dirty miles there's almost no wear. Yes the TiN has worn through in places but the cassette itself is practically new still.
Unfortunately they are a bit spendy, but it's I feel that I'm getting good...
I personally think the jump up to the 52 first gear is too big for the SRAM derailleur geometry to handle properly. I've just swapped back to a 500% one because I was tired of hanging gearshifts, caused by inadequate lateral chain deflection.
To set the derailleur up 'correctly' for the bigger...
I'd be tempted to get an adjustable reamer down the seat tube and inch or so and just take a smidge out of the tube to
a: square up the bore
b: create a small step in the tube so that your shim bush is much less likely to slip down inside the seat tube because retrieving it could be almost...
Some people like getting tied up and whipped.
It doesn't appeal to me though if I'm honest, along with a bike that's broken half of the time.
After having a load of bother with something, few would buy another one.
I bought some spreaders off the tool van that comes around fortnightly. I don't actually know what their official application is, but they work like a charm for spreading pads squarely. I'm pretty sure they are made by laser, but I'll try and get a part number for them.
I couldn't think of an actual failure mode that would cause that damaged naturally besides a seized cam, and I hadn't seen the chain hiding down the back. I hadn't considered that it was caused by baffoonary. :-D