Exactly, make one frame with simple adapter mounting plates for each motor. Maybe a cheap plastic cover to take up any extra “spaces”.Frame design constrains companies a bit but motors are fairly small now. It wouldnt be too far fetched for a company to design adapters that attach to their bikes so they could offer the same bike with bosch, shimano or brose much like a sram/rockshox or fox/shimano equipped bike. A universal bike mount for a motor adapter to the motor of choice. It would certainly ease their headaches when one of these products has problems(motor or supply).
One ski manufacturer i worked at had a side business(actually the bread and butter end of it) where we would refurbish old skis for resale. We would grind of the top sheet and reapply fancy colors and graphics, tune the ski and binding check and resale at a huge 2nd hand sporting goods chain.
Every ski company back then had a sister company. Rossignol and dynastar , atomic and dynamic, k2 and pre and so on. I would grab a k2 and grind the top sheet off only to find it had a pre top sheet underneath. Tje "pre" brand didnt sell as well as "k2" so when they sold out of k2's they would take the remaining "pre" stock and retopsheet the "pre" skis as "k2" and sell the remaining stock.
With emtb if riders soured on shimano ,and the bike companies didnt over commit on motor purchases, they could plug in bosch motors and capitalize on market popularity
I'm sure if there was they would have found it.Surely there must be a way to do this without the bike sounding like a bag of nails
Problem is you also dont know if it will switch onThere is a solution to the rattle noise, it's called a Brose motor. Still to this today the best motor out there imo. Dont even no the damn thing is on!
Just wait, it'll make the death rattle at some point.Dont even no the damn thing is on!
All my buddies with levos have had broken belts. That's like 6 out of 6 bikes...
We made them take the tow with a rope like little kids on a leashSame here. Broken belts for 4/5 people I know with Levos. and then 3 of them had to go back again to have a wiring harness replaced a month or 2 later. Most likely damaged when the motor was swapped. These were on bikes less than a year old. Luckily they all had other bikes to ride during all the down time waiting for parts.
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