Are the open standard mid-drive motors that much worse that provide easy access to spares and compatibility with any battery? I just don't see the point in buying these high end garbage ebikes when there are much cheaper, more reliable and easier to fix options.
It's not just bad for your pocket its bad for the UK economy as a whole and adds to our trade deficit and huge borrowing. I know I can be like a stuck record but £83 billion is being paid in interest by the government each year that is about £3k for every working person in this country. The international banks that lend our economy money will lose confidence in the UK economy at some point and the sh*t is really going to hit the fan when the real state of the UK economy is revealed. You can't borrow forever.
The German economy seems to make a lot of unreliable products that are marketed as reliable but infact are very poor and have excessive repair costs. There are many Japanese cars 3x as reliable as German cars and significantly cheaper repair bills too. There are some brands that are still more reliable than German cars but have massively cheaper repair bills. If a car is 3x as likely to go wrong and the bills are 3x as much that is close to 10x the costs. It feels like the until the UK hits rock bottom we aren't going to come to our senses.
Canyon has its CF frames made by Quest Composites in mainland China. It's a very poor facility with poor QC. Here is a picture of the actual factory as shown on the Quest Composites site. The workers are sitting on small tables and the woman in the foreground is not wearing the hat properly to prevent dust and hairs getting into the fibres and resin of the frame. People need a reality check. Canyon is just another brand who do some design work but is ultimately made for them by just another cheap Asian factory and in this case not a very good one.
They also make many Trek bikes and they have been shown to have very poor tolerances especially for the bottom bracket where on a few occasions Hambini has had to make custom bottom brackets to allow for the extremely poor manufacturing quality. You will see plenty of Canyon and Trek bike images all over the Quest Composite site.
Just making the point that these aren't high quality products. They are not durable or reliable and have quite a high failure rate and some shockingly poor tolerances. Not what you expect you when you spend £3k or more on a bicycle.
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