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Anecdotally, some shops won't deal with mountain bikes in the first place, and the shop that do usually have more qualified staff and set higher base prices, re

Anecdotally, some shops won't deal with mountain bikes in the first place, and the shop that do usually have more qualified staff and set higher base prices, regardless of what you bring them. I'm with you that they should keep charging the same higher prices for ebikes, just saying the price differenciation is already there.

OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Even Chinese BSOs at hypermarkets these days often come with hydraulic disc brakes. That is no longer an MTB-only component that shops will refuse to service. Any bike shop in most developed countries will be able to maintain them. Hell, there are already regions where few bikes still have rim brakes.
- makeitdouble 3y ago
  "Chinese BSOs" was an interestingly ungoogleable term for me :) Got to learn about helicopter crashes in passing (for those in the same boat, it should mean "Bike Similar Object") Unsurprisingly it seems the markets are heavily split by region/country. I assume your comment is about the US market, and I'm kinda glad cheapish bikes are getting the spotlight and more love overall, as it's a neat gateway into biking. In regions where biking has been a commodity for much longer (like Vietnam/Japan/Korea etc. in the SEA area), if the whole drive train is not electrified the front hub will be used for powered lighting and they won't bother with a disk brake. Which makes sense as they're not expecting people to go anything fast, efficiency is already down with the dynamo hub, and those will easily weight 20+ kh anyway, and they wont to get the price down wherever they can. Same way forks are super cheap, brakes themselves are lower grade (rear brake will often be a ribbon brake) etc. On the other hand those country also have a huge chunk of electrified bicycles that will have complex drivetrain, high quality parts and of course disk brakes and they'll be services by bigger shops and certified people, and not your random small one-man shop at the corner of the residential street.
- hannasanarion 3y ago
  A lot of regular bikes are coming with disc brakes these days, but they're usually cable-operated except on e-bikes.

OfSanguineFire 3y ago

Even Chinese BSOs at hypermarkets these days often come with hydraulic disc brakes. That is no longer an MTB-only component that shops will refuse to service. Any bike shop in most developed countries will be able to maintain them. Hell, there are already regions where few bikes still have rim brakes.

makeitdouble 3y ago
"Chinese BSOs" was an interestingly ungoogleable term for me :) Got to learn about helicopter crashes in passing (for those in the same boat, it should mean "Bike Similar Object") Unsurprisingly it seems the markets are heavily split by region/country. I assume your comment is about the US market, and I'm kinda glad cheapish bikes are getting the spotlight and more love overall, as it's a neat gateway into biking. In regions where biking has been a commodity for much longer (like Vietnam/Japan/Korea etc. in the SEA area), if the whole drive train is not electrified the front hub will be used for powered lighting and they won't bother with a disk brake. Which makes sense as they're not expecting people to go anything fast, efficiency is already down with the dynamo hub, and those will easily weight 20+ kh anyway, and they wont to get the price down wherever they can. Same way forks are super cheap, brakes themselves are lower grade (rear brake will often be a ribbon brake) etc. On the other hand those country also have a huge chunk of electrified bicycles that will have complex drivetrain, high quality parts and of course disk brakes and they'll be services by bigger shops and certified people, and not your random small one-man shop at the corner of the residential street.
hannasanarion 3y ago
A lot of regular bikes are coming with disc brakes these days, but they're usually cable-operated except on e-bikes.