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Originally Posted by big jus
just a small note but on a £1200 bike that i am seriously thinking about buying should i be worried that small ( in my mind ) details like this haven't been thought about and fixed at source ? if multiple owners are reporting the same problems after a short period of owning the bike what else is going to crop up in the medium/long term ???
i understand that bikes are bikes and all riders have their own tastes as to the way they are set up , but i dont expect to pay what is the equivelent of a small family car then have to carry out what seems to be adjustments or upgrades just to make the bike stop safely !
i may be being a little dramatic here but surely this is a problem the guys at wisper should have noticed and corrected ?
cheers
big jus
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Being very new to eBikes, and having not really cycled for years, I believe I'm starting to suffer from the "Urge to Tinker". Worse perhaps is the "Urge to Discuss Tinkering with Other People". These are well known medical conditions which are sadly incurable.
I've recently found myself browsing through web sites like
http://www.wiggle.co.uk looking longingly at bike related accessories, most of which I couldn't possibly need (Aero Bars, Bar Ends, Body Armour?!?).
Having to tighten the brake cables every few weeks is hardly a big chore, and I get the impression that
all bikes need this sort of regular attention and maintenance (something to do with the thin, light-weight, flexible components I think - by comparison the components on a car are more robust and heavy duty; you wouldn't go near a car that needed its brakes adjusted every couple of weeks
).
Personally I can understand the mechanics of a bicycle, and I can see how I could take it to bits using very simple tools (most of which I already have). By comparison the components of a car (to me a least) are conceptually simple, but baffling in reality, requiring all sorts of specialist tools to work on them.
I'm sure that the simplicity of a bicycle encourages folk to think "If I just changed that bit, fiddled with that thing, and added one of those, then it'd make the bike perfect!". The reality is that you could tinker and fiddle endlessly (and spend loads of money in the process) and
still not achieve perfection.
I'm sure WEVCO could make all sorts of improvements to this, that, and the other, but the price would slowly creep up, and its already an expensive bike (although to be fair to WEVCO, most of the expense is down to having to pay our beloved government a shed load in import duties).
Doug and Dave have already improved the bike in many ways based on feedback from this forum (e.g. binning the front wheel quick release mechanism because the forces exerted by disk brakes can make the front wheel pop out of the drop-outs with a quick release), and I'm sure they'll continue to make improvements.
Don't get me wrong, the standard Wisper 905SE is an excellent bike, and I'm very happy with it. I've made no modifications (so far), and theres no real
need to, but the "Urge to Tinker" strong in me, and its possible I won't be able to resist much longer
Regards,
Elephants