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by vanilla_nut 1175 days ago
Odd, I thought repairs were supposed to be the business model? Get folks hooked on a cool ebike witha bunch of proprietary parts they can't fix themselves. Force them to pay you ongoing fees to tune up and repair the bikes. Bike-as-a-Service.

Hilarious to think that the decision to make their devices unrepairable is actually bankrupting them. But also very sad to think that many of those bikes are destined to become ewaste once the company folds and nobody can repair them.