If all these so called superior fancy bike brands were as reliable
No ebike is reliable Neath, be that hub motor or mid drive.
The thing is as some keep saying is the mid drive usually have to go to a place like performance bearings for , if not fixing, more like extending the life from replacing the internal bearings.
We know hub drive can be just as unreliable, as most of those coming here have one problem or another and cant find anyone to fix it for them.
Trying to claim one is more reliable over another is really a fallacy, its not the whole issue.
Most mid drives are superior because the components that make up the whole are superior, and a bike is more than just it's drive system.
A shop built mid drive ebike, off the shelf can enter this race. a shop built off the shelf hub drive would fall to bits in the first 1000 feet of descent. Its mostly a downhill experience, so the motors dont usually come into it
So what makes one more capable over the other ? The level to which its built.
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