Tero X 5.0 quality

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When my bell fell off the bike at 3 months of use, I wasn't too bothered because I wanted a spurcycle anyway, but yesterday my headlight fell off (plastic mount broke), at 6 months of use, and about 1900 miles. The kickstand fell off at one point, but that didn't involve broken parts. I'm wondering if anyone else is having issues. I've ridden the bike on some pretty rough single track, but it mostly commutes and rides gravel. I still love the bike though, just got first new back tire and chain, and upgraded pedals to Yoshimura, and grips to Ergon. I love this bike!
 
Perhaps you should have bought a Levo :) No bell, lights, rear rack or a kickstand :)

Sorry to hear about your experiences though, I sympathise with you!
 
Sorry, I'm no help. The last Specialized bike I had was a 1985 StumpJumper. Rode it hard on Marin County trails for years, and nothing fell off besides me.

But I will say this: Just going by EBR posts, higher-end bikes definitely have their share of problems, large and small. In the ebike realm, as elsewhere, reality's more complicated than "you get what you pay for".
 
I just hit 1000 miles on mine so I will enjoy the headlight while I still can. I swapped the bell for an Oi Luxe (don't get the cheap one) to make room for innerbarends so the old one definitely can't fall off.

The sacrificial bit of the kickstand does keep getting loose. I should really remove the screw and Loctite it but instead I keep tightening it up.
 
Got a quick fix going, all credit to zip ties! I've reached out to a special ops machinist I know to see if he can fab up something that could work with front basket mount. So far he replied Holy F_ _k! to my inquiry. We'll see, but at least now I can use my bar bag now that light is out of the way. And @Stefan Mikes, the vado is awesome, but I need panniers for commute. @Jeremy McCreary, I still have my 90? Stumpy for a bar bike, it never breaks! @Ben J, I used loctite on mine, but wondered why Specialized didn't in the first place. Should be a fun adventure either way.
 

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something that could work with front basket mount
I think I'd still want mine to turn with the handlebars, even though that doesn't help a ton in turns.

Honestly the pro side of that breaking off is that it's one less thing tying you to the stock stem. I'm thinking of changing my stem (going shorter) and it's fairly integrated to the electronics.
 
I got to this post from doing a Google search for "Tero X 5.0 headlight mount replacement part". My bike has 500 miles on the odometer. While I didn't get an answer here, I got my answer at a Specialized bike shop. The replacement part is $6.70, so I ordered 2 of them. Then I went and looked at a Tero X 5.0 on the showroom floor to see what might have happened..... So if you turn the handle bars to full lock, There is no "lock." The "lock" is the headlight hitting the top bar of the frame at about 120 degrees of rotation. The mount is very sturdy with anterior-posterior loads, but with side loads it is very weak becuase of the leverage that is applied to the mount that has about a 1" drop and its dimensions are long in the anterior-porterior direction, but skinny in the lateral direction. This makes a side load devastating to the mount. So how did I get a big side load by hitting full lock on the sterring column? I put the bike in the back of my Tesla model S instead of putting in the bed of my truck. I was doing a trail that was 100 miles from home, so using the EV made more sense from a gas price stand point, my first time trying this. After removing the front wheel, the handle bars wouldn't clear the roof line in the hatch back unless I turned the handle bars 90 degrees. It doesn't take much more than 90 to hit the headlight on the top bar. So I am pretty sure that I cracked the plastic mount when putting the bike in or taking it out, when I was wrestling with it hanging up on the carpet. Then on my next night ride, I noticed the headlight was pointed off to the right by about 20 degrees. I thought it was due to a loose screw that allowed it to move. So I reached down and applied a little side torque to it to straighten it out and "pop". The mount was dead.

Eidt: I have Ergon GP5 grips, which make the handle bar clearance more of a headache when fitting it into the back of my car. Made the edit since I just noticed you have Ergon Grips as well.
 
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