"A bike is an almost perfect machine, and e-bikes combined with public transit are probably the best way to get cars out of cities, and to make personal transport sustainable. [...]

And yet all that is being ruined in an effort to make us buy a new bike every few years, instead of repairing the ones we have."

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Bike Manufacturers Are Making Bikes Less Repairable

Just like cars, tractors, computers, and seemingly every other product category, bikes—and especially e-bikes—are going all black box on us.

^{Charlie Sorrel (iFixit)}