3000 trouble free miles

soundwave

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You don't have to worry about one unless you have a Bosch CX motor.
mine is the performance motor but never heard of pcb parts wearing out lol it either works or its blown ;)

tho you can see inside chips with one of these x ray machines but they are 150k
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After my experience I have to assume they do. I think it is called a judgment call before parting with your money. Perhaps your views would be more lenient, each to his own.
Eh? I was asking a question, not expressing an opinion.
As for my opinion, I believe your view on Shimano is similar to taking a Ford car for a test drive, having problems when the engine keeps cutting out and saying that all Fords are bad buys.
 
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Eh? I was asking an question, not expressing an opinion.
As for my opinion, I believe your view on Shimano is similar to taking a Ford car for a test drive, having problems when the engine keeps cutting out and saying that all Fords are bad buys.
I have to agree as from my experience my shimano e8000 has been faultless so far with over 2k in 6 months on and off road
I've had previously 3 Bosch cx motors and they were not bad but I would stick with shimano in comparison both in functionality and freedom to update software and tweak settings which Bosch have no interest in letting the end user do
 

soundwave

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you can update Bosch motors if you have the £350 kiox display :oops: but you still can not buy one unless on a new bike which sucks ass.

if you damage one/crash only option is via the dealer you got the bike from :eek:
 
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Eh? I was asking a question, not expressing an opinion.
As for my opinion, I believe your view on Shimano is similar to taking a Ford car for a test drive, having problems when the engine keeps cutting out and saying that all Fords are bad buys.
You asked if all Shimano motors behaved like the Merida ones and I replied that in my opinion they do. That seems like an answer to your question. As for your opinion, yes you are correct. If anything that I test has problems then it is a bad buy.
 

Dom T

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2000 miles this year on the Canyon Spectral-On, shimano motor not an ounce of problems either.
4000 on the Haibike with yammy motor and although I had a friday build bike, replaced the motor, battery and display withing 6 months of owing, that is also still going well, no problems no issues.
 
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