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My take away having a big, electric cargo bike for 1.5 years is scheduled maintenance. Enviolo gears “themselves” are great. No issues with that aspect. But fuck me the gear changing system is a nightmare. Both cables replaced, cable housings replaced and then another cable snapped this morning. You can manually “move” the gears and just adjust your e-boost as you pedal so it’s still useable but shit this system is rough #biketooter #ottawa #ottbike #enviolo #cargobike
@grivettcarnac Yes. The hub itself is bombproof. The components around the hub are complete shit, and the reason why I'm getting off this train.
@Andres4NY oh you have experience with this too? I’d read about Enviolo challenges before and now getting to understand why folks don’t like it.
@grivettcarnac Yes, I have 3 hubs (the oldest is from 2012), and I've had to replace many shifters and hub interfaces. The hub interface, in particular, is fragile plastic that gets a fair bit of stress and grit..
All manual though. I haven't tried their automatic shifting.
@grivettcarnac@mstdn.social@Andres4NY oh 100% agree. That plastic piece is shit and such a soft material. I have a mind to figure out how to do all the work myself. Almost spent $300 so far on parts and labour and that’s all a waste now. So frustrating esp with limited expertise in these systems in our city anyway