Well Google is an octopus, it has no moral compass, just an algorithm to generate higher revenues. They infested my phone with a lot of it's services but I disabled all of them, and it lets me know with endless messages telling me to turn them back on. But hey, I'm no phone zombie, it's not in my hand and on my pillow, I just muted the txt volume and now I don't hear them, I check for genuine messages two or three times a day, that's enough. You don't have to partake of this corporate slavery if you choose not to. I do no social media, never have. I use forums and YT, which is mostly garbage now, and ebay for the odd purchase.
Worthy reviews are hard to come by, I basically ignore all the Positive reviews. Why read them? They are just telling me what I want to hear and reinforcing the marketing propaganda. I read the Negative ones only and then decide if I can live with the downsides. 15yo cars are fine, 6 and 7 year old MC are good, but all the more modern stuff is full of garbage that makes you feel good but the reliability is gone and so is the basic joy of driving and riding. Replaced by a big ipad display with a billion features you don't need. Like a version of microsoft office
So you better be able to upgrade your new car in 5 years before the troubles start and I don't like to waste that sort of money myself. When I got into ebikes BBS was the reliable one, the MD winner by far and it still is in my opinion. You match that, or your reliable hub, with a quality bicycle and you're off for thousands of miles of cycling pleasure. Buy a premade made ebike and you'll be joining EBR with a litany of complaints in your first post. We see it all the time, but we say nothing, because we don't want to hurt peoples feelings. When I wanted to upgrade I had a good look through all the brand-name offerings and couldn't see one worth spending any money on, especially the problematic mid-drives put out by the major manufactures. So I bought another BBS and another quality pushbike to build my own. I despair with the industry ever getting a reliable bike on the market. Like 10,000 trouble free miles reliable, like we expect from our other vehicles. They just can't or Won't build them.
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