I'm running them on a Focus Jam2 and yes they wear but no quicker than the chains, mid you we don't ride much when it's wet so there's no grinding paste like when the bike is very muddy. I also use dry wax based lube which dosn't attract dirt like oil based either.
I just use narrow wide alloy chainrings on my Shimano motor bought on ebay for less than $20 each, change them when you change the chain. Something like this
I had similar a few times now and it was the chainring every time, new chainring and it all works ok. I use alloy chainrings so the do wear quicker than a steel one but are not that expensive.
Its on a Focus Jam2 C Plus of 2018 vintage with Shimano 8000, still going strong at just under 10k kms
Can't help with the belt side of things but did fit an 8 speed Alfine gear hub to a Kona Dawg 26" full suspension mtb about 12 years ago. It's also fitted with a Bafang 750w bottom bracket drive and a 48v 14ah battery fitted in the triangle.
It has stood up to the test of time and is still going...
As long as there is plenty of meat on the pads you shouldn't have a problem.
Don't do what a mate did, wore the pads down to virtually nothing and also ran the disk below 1.5mm, he's an agressive rider and frequently is hard on brakes so he popped a piston in the caliper. It came out too far and...
The E8000 is relatively easy to up the cutout to 32kmh by telling it that is lives in the good ol USA.
You either need a friendly bikeshop or an app like EMax which is what I used.
32kmh is much more enjoyable especially on touring type rides as you can keep up with all the young blokes on their...
We have a small enclosed trailer with gullwing doors on both sides and the rear.
Two Yakima High Road racks bolted to the floor hold the bikes by the wheels so very easy to roll them up a small ramp and onto the racks. We've towed the trailer outback here in Australia for thousands of kilometres...
Garmin Instinct solar, occasionally when i'm not out side getting rays I have to charge it once a week for an hour or so but it's great for our climate here in Oz.
The solar might not do much in some places that people on this forum inhabit as it always seems to be wet and overcast looking at...
I bought my wife a cheap hardtail ebike to ride after many years of not riding, she hated it and after a few rides refused to ride it any more.
As I had a Focus Jam2 I talked her into having a ride on it and that changed things totally so we purchased a small Focus Thron2 6.8 as the 6.8 comes...
I don't think that Shimano specify any particular rotor's, pads or disks for emtb's, if you have a look at new emtb's and ebikes in general there is a wide variety of brakes fitted as standard.
Personally I think that heavy emtb's and heavy riders need the best brakes possible.
I've seen lots of...
Be very careful running pads and rotors below minimum recommended thicknesses.
I've had to pull several calipers apart on other riders bikes to repair or replace chipped and broken pistons caused by running either pads or rotors below minimum thickness.
The higher end calipers run ceramic...
We've been using Quadlock mounts for about 4 years on three different bikes, total mileage is way in excess of 15,000km, about half on singletrack and downhill, the rest cross country touring on back roads and firetrails. Four different phones between my wife and myself, a Sony, two Pixels and...
It does appear to have removeable inserts to enable fitting to larger bars, but doesn't appear to have the hole for the 3mm screw to fasten the Kiox to the bracket like the genuine mount.
I don't fasten my Kiox in but rather fit a lanyard through the provided hole in the kiox case at the bottom...
I've had a 2018 Focus Jam2 carbon frame with the E8000 since December 2019 which was an ex demo bike so had 500kms on it when I puchased it.
It now has just under 9,500km on it and the motor is still going strong.
I also have a Focus Thron2 with a Bosch CX Performance which is well on the way...
This is the ebay seller I bought my little springs for the Di2 shifter from
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/374140517539?var=643045962276
If they don't have the correct size for the derailleur just do a search for the size you want in ebay or google.
An ebike or hard ridden acoustic will require a steel freehub body as the load and torque won't take long to destroy an alloy one.
I had a similar problem with my Focus Jam2 when the freehub collapsed due to the Novatec hub using loose balls running on the inside of the hub which eventually wore...
As I found when the little spring in the Di2 shifter broke Shimano's reply on trying to buy a replacement spring was "buy a new shifter, no individual parts available" once you have the measurements you should be able to get a suitable replacement on ebay.
I had something similar when the end of the little spring in the shifter snapped off, it would do the weirdest gear changes and then be fine for a while or the next bump and then it would play up again. I carefully disassembled the shifter and bent the remaining end of the spring to form a hook...
As a matter of interest you can get your LBS to turn off the light facility completely if your bike isn't fitted with lights that run off the battery. This stops the bikes software from reserving I think it's 4-5% of the battery capacity for the non existant lights which might mean the...