Don't ride in rain or in wet slop.
Umm, if that is the case Kingerz, then manufacturers shouldn’t be selling these things as mountain bikes. And such an approach as you describe isn’t really an option for me.
And no internal combustion engines are not motors
Here’s what the dictionary has to say about ‘motor’ Paul;
Motor (noun)
- a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- any self-powered vehicle.
- a person or thing that imparts motion, especially a contrivance, as a steam engine, that receives and modifies energy from some natural source in order to utilize it in driving machinery.
- Also called electric motor. Electricity. a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, as an induction motor.
Again I dont agree with the situation and I understand your frustrations and others but as they say you pay your money and take your chances .
Fair enough! Vacuum cleaners do indeed have motors by the way but I don’t think they have ECU’s. Anyway enough! Look that PCB is just the clever little controller inside our ebike motors. It is just seriously frustrating that Bosch won’t support its product – it is a just a part, a part that some of us happen to need occasionally.
And my reply's aren't defending bosch far from it i just see that there not the only company on the fiddle .
I don’t know what it is. But they seem to think they have created a super reliable sealed unit – and in many applications it is probably cutting the mustard, but in some markets as a mountain bike engine it is just not doing the business. But hey it could be kept going with some basic support. Sometimes inside big corporations - well change, or admitting a weakness doesn't come easy.
before you jump ship to shimano... (as a shimano owner) who has been through 2 motors, Shimano motors cant be serviced period...
if you have an error... it is = buy a replacement from shimano... and it is god awful more expensive then 675.. from what Im seeing in this forum... I believe bosch is the better choice still...
Yup I hear they are all crap emin86. I think a certain well known Scottish mtb youtuber go through three Shimano units in a year or so (or thereabouts). Though apparently Brose are both fully supported, plus can be upgraded to become pretty solid useful units. I’d have a Brose, but they only seem to be fitted to Specialized, and I don’t really want one of those – darn it.