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A friend of mine is looking to buy an e-bike, does anyone have any experience of Haibike (Trekking 6), particularly the Yamaha motor?
2 Friends have them. 1 with Yamaha motor and one with Bosch. The Yamaha is smoother and quieter battery seems to last better too.
Gotta say they're a bit on the fugly side, don't think I've seen one that looks nice.
Loads of better bikes out there for the money, unless it's a stock issue and they have loads?
Any ebike problems we see at work are pretty much all MTB related. They just get abused, filthy and wet.
We never see the trekking/hybrids back with motor/battery problems. Yamaha or Bosch. Pick the one you like the colour of best, use it as intended and you'll have no bother.
Giant use the same motors, had the yamaha for 2 years with only one small issue of it shutting down for 10 minutes, but that was a wet and floody ride and was over a year ago without any recurrence.
Reality is all the motors are pretty similar, it's the wiring looms and control units and how it's protected that matters, the motors are pretty much 50 year old technology and not exactly groundbreaking.
Thank you all, I have passed on your comments.
Demoed a couple a few years back and didn't like the suspension action at all. Even my son noticed something wasn't quite right and he rode with broken forks without realising!
Also they are too ugly for words.
Just spent a couple of days riding an Orbea and I'd definitely say they are worth considering.
Was going to say it'd have to be very (very) cheap to make up for being so ugly but that's based on all the Haibike MTBs I've seen and that looks fine (for what it is).
Sam Pilgrim uses them so they must be good.
Personally I think they look right ugly and heavy, I could never buy one, but I guess Sam Pilgrim doesn't buy them either.