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Especially with the latest trend. I read somewhere many bicycle manufactures are now making models that are close to impossible to repair by a "regular" person
by jmclnx 2y ago
Especially with the latest trend. I read somewhere many bicycle manufactures are now making models that are close to impossible to repair by a "regular" person.
For the "Ship of Theseus" comment by @ytss:
35 years ago, by first good bike got hit by a car and I had to replace the frame. I took parts from it and put it on a new frame. After 2 decades that frame cracked, un-repairable.
So on my current ride, all that is left is the original bike are the break levers and break fittings and racks. Can that be considered still the original :)
- ywvcbk 2y ago> impossible to repair by a "regular" person. What do you mean by that? Unless it’s an e-bikes most modern bikes are extremely standardized and IMHO generally better quality than older bikes (unless we’re exclusively talking about fixed gear steel frame ones)
- jmclnx 2y ago>What do you mean by that? I do not remember the details, I saw a blurb on a bicycling site that manufactures are starting to create bikes that regular people cannot repair. I think I heard the following over the last couple of years: * a kind of automatic gear shifting, but very lite weight * Cables are somehow routed through the frame * I thought I heard there is a shifter that no longer needs cables. * And I know about tubeless tires. * I did hear about using Mars Rover tires for bikes, that should great, but last I heard they were very expensive. Not sure if they hit the general market yet. All of that to me points to a very complex system.