E-bike owners, any regrets with your choice/hindsight

If I didn’t find myself bending rear mechs every couple of months, I’d consider AXS.

As it is, I’ve resigned myself to Deore from now on because XTs were becoming an expensive habit. I think I’d cry if I wrecked a £300 derailleur.

Can you get spares? Cages etc?

Yes you can. Ratio Technology  also do cages.

Cube stereo here, once I had sorted out the cheese ring and forks, I love it. I do 100 plus miles a week on road or turbo so will either do big days in the hills or trail centres mostly in eco and get decent range for that. Only regret is that I didn’t buy a 2023 carbon Levo as  the new 2.2 motor seems sorted. I am going to keep this one another couple of years and see where the tech has gone by then. Best cycling purchase ever, even if the mech,frame and motor are the only original parts left after a year

My biggest regret currently is knowing I’ve got to take the motor out tomorrow to change a gear cable.

Brake swap on my Orbea needed that too due to routing. I got my lbs to do it as I couldn’t be arsed.

Why can’t we have cable sleeves end to end like on non-e bikes?

“Why can’t we have cable sleeves end to end like on non-e bikes?”

The packaging of MTBs around the BB has always been really difficult, and then you add suspension and it gets worse (apart from a few designs) and then try to stick a motor in there and still get the cables etc past there whilst making the frame look as non-e as possible.

But if hoses can cables will go, why can’t they go in a sleeve?

My suspicion is they could but brands figured out they can get away without doing it because customers put up with it.

I’ve looked at the cable/hose diagram of my bike and there are no obstacles.

Why can’t we have cable sleeves end to end like on non-e bikes?

Some do… My trek fuel exe has a sleeve, no issue replacing the rear brake on that, just poke it in the hole in the frame and it comes out the other end.

Why can’t we have cable sleeves end to end like on non-e bikes?

New Rise sort of has but adds headset routing to complicate it.  Fitted rear brake on K’s and it wasn’t easy, but it did guide it from the head tube to the chain stay exit eventually.