Fuel EXe Trek Fuel EXe Megathread!

[Petone]

Hi all, newbie here, been running a 9.7 in NZ for a couple of months, loving it, took a while to get suspension dialed, but once sorted it rides great.
Have just had the display failure, getting sorted with warranty replacement, but along with this failure came a strange resistance when pushing the bike backwards, I thought this might be normal but hadn’t noticed before, but it’s quite a strong resistance. Popped into bike shop and pushed a floor model exe backwards and was little to no resistance.
Any one had this? Is it related to the display failure? I’m assuming this won’t miraculously fix when the new display arrives.
I did show to shop when getting display removed but they didn’t really think much of it, but I’m starting to get a bit worried about it.

Very late to this reply but I am also a newbie, also running a 9.7, also in NZ, and also have this resistance when pushing the bike backwards. I noticed it recently when cleaning the bike. So I tested resistance on some hire Exe's at the local bikepark. If I picked up the rear end of any hire bike and gave the rear wheel a flick backwards, the drivetrain, pedals + motor engaged and the rear wheel only spun about 2 revolutions before stopping. If I gave my own rear wheel a similar flick backwards, all I got was about 1/4 of a revolution before it stops. So I have , more or less, about 10x the resistance. This all appears to be coming from the motor.

Has anyone else had anything like this?
I worry that it might be related to a very wet ride a few months back. Has anyone else had problems after full immersion in water?
I'm considering trying to take the whole motor apart to see if there is anything that can be cleaned off.. does anyone have any hints?