Bafang Ultra Motor (M620) Ridden Very Gently for 3,000 Miles - Service Required or Not Necessarily?

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Kind'a looks like it was rode hard and put away wet.....
as the saying goes.

 

[PCeBiker]

Kind'a looks like it was rode hard and put away wet.....
as the saying goes.

Not really.
It's only seen rain once and I rode on wet gravel 3-4 times that sprayed slop everywhere because I removed my fenders.

I'm a fair weather rider and avoid rain because it's a fricken mess and riding ain't no fun when you're cold and wet.

However, the one day I got "caught in the rain" 20 km out.
It was a cloudy day with a 30% chance of rain, and the road ahead was wet, but I just rode on. The water got Deep and I figured it must have Fricken Poured !!

I was getting completely covered in gravelly slop so I started riding on the grass to get some cleaner spray on everything.
My googles were covered in road spray and when I tried to wipe them clean, it just smeared ?
Then I caught some in my face and it tasted like salt and vinegar chips ?

I'm like WTF is going on??

Then I passed a farm tractor that was towing two HUGE empty water tanks of brine solution that just got dumped on the road. It keeps the dust down in the summer.

So my e-bike and I were covered in concentrated sodium, calcium, and potassium chloride solutions, which was probably richer in salt than the Dead Sea?

I wonder if my ebike would float in the Dead Sea ?
Or would it burst into flames ?


Aaanyway,.. the gravel roads aren't just dusty with grit that grinds away at every moving part of my e-bike, it's also Really Salty, so it does a better job of wearing out my ebike with both a grinding and dissolving action.


I do occasionally wash my e-bike but only when it's covered in crap because I keep my e-bikes in the house.

Some days are worse than others when it comes to getting full of