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Had to have a Bosch motor. Had to have the best spec at the price point I could afford. Cube action team ticked both those boxes.

Don't worry, you're not old going off the average age of us all here😂

That's exactly it, they're a depreciating asset. It's knowing when to sell on and buy new. The tech moves quickly.

Seems to have been that way since covid.

Am similar age, it must have turned your life upside down. You survived some major trauma though and who knows how far your recovery will go, need to keep a positive mindset as much as possible!

Is that the reason or is it more to do with wages not reflecting the work involved? The fact that two of the guys are still working in their 70's instead of enjoying retirement might give a clue.

Wow, scary! Mind if I ask how old you are? Glad you're on the mend, hopefully the recovery will be good enough to get you back in the saddle again🤞🏼

It's hard to quantify without knowing the number of failures, how the bikes are used etc. Also how many are even aware their mounts have cracks or damage but not yet detected by the rider. All I'm going off is the growing number of complaints I'm seeing on the FB group, the bizarre mixed...

You've highlighted the problem perfectly. Tiny amount of CF to hold the metal insert. 12nm seemingly a low value to grip a high stress area yet any higher torque and it'll crush what little CF there is. It's a proper design flaw on a bike with 170/160 suspension for gnarly downhill riding yet...

Either poor design/QC or cheap/inferior methods used. That tiny amount of material on a crucial structural part of the frame is a joke. Throw in incorrect torque values and then cube refusing warranty claims on the basis of 'wear and tear'!

Get some knee pads. First aid kit is generally just a cut kit - plasters and bandages. Any injury worse than that you're not going to have anything in there to help. I just keep a roll of insulation tape and pack of tissues in my bag, that can easily double up to make bandages. Most importantly...

Mondraker all day.

Yep, this is the info cube were incorrectly using apparently.

Looking at mondraker it's far more beefy and better built! It seems that's how cube gets the best price point for their bikes, cheap out with the Chinese carbon frames.

If you look at the carbon mount compared to other brands it's ridiculously thin. The pictures show how frail it is. Yep, riding on canal paths you'll get many who never have a problem, but the same frame comes with 170mm fox 38 forks with 160mm rear travel, full on enduro.

Yep, further investigation into this found out that cube got the torque figures from Bosch and quoted those. Problem being it didn't take into account the mounts being carbon with a tiny useless insert. Stick to 11. Seen quite a few failures now on the cube fb site.

Big problem with cube e-bikes failing here, they gave out wrong info and people were torquing to 20nm when it should have been 11. Get it in writing (email) from the manufacturer what the official figure is then double check that elsewhere!

I've not checked mine yet but I did torque them to that value. I was just testing the water to see what options are available. You were shot down as one of the admins reached out to cube themselves to get the official word on the torque value, which they told us was 20nm. If that's what the...

It turns out there's a major defect in the cube carbon frames. One of the motor mount points is made from extremely thin carbon fibre and the threaded insert is barely held in. These have been failing and cube have been refusing warranty claims saying it's either 'wear and tear' or damage has...

Did you ever find anything? Am in a very similar position!