How many KM on the clock of your Ebike?
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Stredda
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Been through about 3 cassettes, 2 chain rings and probably 5 chains. Not bad really. Being only a 32Nm motor the first gen Levo SL only has 2X assistance, whereas a full power is 4X assistance, so it's not that much harder than a normal bike when it comes to drivetrain wear.
dancaseyimages
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Hows the battery life? Do you have a percentage indicator like a car?
Stredda
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Yeah, it has a battery health indicator in the app. Still at 100% according to that!
Stredda
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I do ride it to work a lot, so there's a lot of those Km that are just road and shared Pathway, but when I do go off road, I like to do a fair bit of exploring up old fire trails and some of them are bloody steep, like impossible on a normal bike and a real challenge on the Ebike. Then there's just normal mountain bike riding on single track.
All motor brands have issues, just some more than others. The Mahle motor in the Levo SL has proven pretty reliable from what I have seen of a few forums. The full powered Levo on the other hand had heaps of belt breakage issues for a long time but I think they may have it sorted now. I haven't seen one brand or model that someone didn't have a problem, it's just the percentage of issues that change.
I plan to hang on to this bike for a long time, so I'm glad it can be rebuilt either by yourself or shoot it up to the Ebike Motor Centre. They also support Bosch, Brose (Specialized), Yamaha (Giant), TQ, and Mahel motors, but only sell bearing kits for Shimano motors as Shimano won't share the fault codes and opening up the motor can cause a fault code that cannot be removed. All fine under warranty, but when the warranty runs out, you are on your own.
I did replace the sprag bearing and put new crank bearings and seals in my motor a while back. I think next time I will shoot it up to the Motor Centre for a full refurb.
Bosch do seem to be pretty good when it comes to after sales service.
My wife has a Reid E-Trail with the Ananda m100 mid drive motor that we bought in early 2020, its just kicked over 9000k and no issues other than the chain braking in the first 100k (which they fixed). Cheap bike for the daily commute and weekend rides, its actually been petty good, only charge it once a week (it pays to be a lightweight on an e-bike..)
Stredda
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Commuting seems to allow big Km from and Ebike. They stay fairly dry, there's not too much vibration, there's no dirt and mud (in most cases) and you shouldn't be getting things like pedal strikes.
Calvin27
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I have an old mid drive TSDZ that's easily clocked over 10,000 without slightest problem. Mostly commuting duties, the occasional bush bash. The battery is surprisingly ok too, at what I would estimate 80% of capacity. Only issue I've had is when i ran full boost one time in 42C weather (trying to get home as quick as I could) the thing overheated and I had to wait 5 minutes for it to cool down before it would turn on again. Opened it up and nothing damaged, that was about 3 years ago and it still works.
ashes_mtb
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I wonder how accurate the battery state of health readings are. Had my EV 20,000km service last week and they said it’s still at 100%. Given studies show an initial decline that flattens out, I was surprised that it hadn’t at least gone done a few percent.
Stredda
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Yeah, I doubt it is still 100% It still lasts pretty well but there has to be some degrading happening, so I really doubt it's 100%.
Coopz
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It's weird but my smart watch is a lower spec Amazfit and I've worn it almost every day for around 4 years and the battery health is 89% and I've noticed zero degradation in its power.
ashes_mtb
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Now I think about my Garmin watch is at 5 years and I haven’t noticed any change after wearing it daily that entire time. No way to check battery health unfortunately.