This actually is a point I have made before. The motors themselves have the mechanical component and the controller board (pcb) I am still surprised that there are not Chinese alternatives being produced for tge controller & display for Bosch, Shimano, Brose etc. At that point, once the...
Interesting points being made about QA etc for motors originating/manufactured in China. From my personal experience with ebikes. I have converted 2 x mtb's with Tongsheng TSDZ2 motors with Chinese batteries and had over 2K trouble free miles on the two original ones and still going strong after...
You would be hard pressed these days to not have or use anything in everyday life, yet alone emtb's that doesn't contain componets originating from China, so although a valid point about the regeim, it's a rather pointless argument as a reason to not buy the bike.
Had this been available earlier in the year, I would probably have bought this instead of my Trek Rail 5. Bafang excelent motors and make spares available for the mechanically adept owner to self fix/service/repair. Hopefully this will makes the other manufacturers take note. Already had a...