Has anyone else suffered from a rear mech failure on their Levo?
I’m currently in Austria and went for a ride yesterday that was a 1300m climb over a 10mile distance. Less than 100m from the end of the ride (on an almost flat section) my rear mech completely snapped near to the hanger, went into the wheel and made a bit of a mess!
Whats weird is that at the time I was in 3rd gear (which rules out a spoke strike as that would only really happen in 1st gear) and as I had almost run my battery flat on the climb (Blevo gave me 2 miles remaining) I was in eco mode with assistance set manually to 10%. Basically it looks like the mech just failed.
Thanks to an English speaking Austrian who had a chain breaker, a quick mountain top modification allowed me to convert my bike to a “single speed” bike so that I could get back down the mountain, luckily it really was downhill all the way! The only real problem was that as the suspension compressed the chain pulled tight so what was supposed to be a fast downhill became a ‘nurse it home downhill’
I have managed to source a new rear mech from a local shop, but my wheel is buckled due to a bent spoke, the mech hanger also needed to be tweaked and I’m 100euro out of pocket for a new mech
Does anyone think this could be a warranty claim?
Darren
I’m currently in Austria and went for a ride yesterday that was a 1300m climb over a 10mile distance. Less than 100m from the end of the ride (on an almost flat section) my rear mech completely snapped near to the hanger, went into the wheel and made a bit of a mess!
Whats weird is that at the time I was in 3rd gear (which rules out a spoke strike as that would only really happen in 1st gear) and as I had almost run my battery flat on the climb (Blevo gave me 2 miles remaining) I was in eco mode with assistance set manually to 10%. Basically it looks like the mech just failed.
Thanks to an English speaking Austrian who had a chain breaker, a quick mountain top modification allowed me to convert my bike to a “single speed” bike so that I could get back down the mountain, luckily it really was downhill all the way! The only real problem was that as the suspension compressed the chain pulled tight so what was supposed to be a fast downhill became a ‘nurse it home downhill’
I have managed to source a new rear mech from a local shop, but my wheel is buckled due to a bent spoke, the mech hanger also needed to be tweaked and I’m 100euro out of pocket for a new mech
Does anyone think this could be a warranty claim?
Darren