Do your trust your motor and battery 100% or do you have a back up bike when things do go wrong!!

[Geeman]

Do your trust your motor and battery 100% or do you have a back up bike when things do go wrong!!

 

[7869hodgy]

Yes

 

[GMLS]

Trust my Cube but still have an analogue bike as I see them as 2 very different machines and depends on what I'm doing

 

[Gyre]

The Wild has been great, but I like changing things up. Even if you don't care for variety, having a back-up just makes sense if you can swing the cost and space.

Also, you can still easily whack a derailleur on a rock or need to replace the chain/cassette/chainring even if the motor and battery are 100% reliable. It would really suck to not be able to ride at all for who-knows-how-long waiting on a backorder.

 

[The Hodge]

Yeah ..I have an mtb ..but to be honest it's too heavy to carry ..

 

[B1rdie]

I don’t trust the motor so I have a fs bike, but also don’t trust the shock so I have a hardtail and as forks also may fail I have a rigid bike witch can be converted to single speed as we all know you can’t trust deraileurs.

 

[steve_sordy]

I thought you meant when out and about, not as in having a spare bike.

 

[cozzy]

I bought a decent backup pedal bike with that thought, plus i could use it for the odd uplift day and it had a lot of common sized parts, shock, brakes wheels etc.
I rode it 3 times in 5 weeks and quickly realised that if my ebike was out of action for any reason, then i would rather find something else to do that weekend rather than having to ride a non assisted bike. They are no fun whatsoever.

 

[The Hodge]

I bought a decent backup pedal bike with that thought, plus i could use it for the odd uplift day and it had a lot of common sized parts, shock, brakes wheels etc.
I rode it 3 times in 5 weeks and quickly realised that if my ebike was out of action for any reason, then i would rather find something else to do that weekend rather than having to ride a non assisted bike. They are no fun whatsoever.

Yeah ..how quickly we forget !?