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Like I bang on about Bullitts being good, and I am biased, but generally Bullitts are specced with stuff thats known to work well, in eurorpean conditions without much bother*
*nexus 5 speed and e6100 shit the bed like annoyingly regularly compared to e6000 and e8000 were much more reliable but noisy.
The cargo fork issue I bang on about a lot. The main fix is cargo bike companies need to band together their r&d money and get a decent cargo specific fork together. 50mm stanchions, open bath oil damping, big fat bushs and a switchable air spring to quickly adjust between unladen, one kid and all the kids.
At that time I will change my tune and Reccomend cargos with suspension. Until then, buy rigid steel fork with big tyres and move to a country with roads fit for purpose.
Real talk, bullitt maintenance, grease your rose joint steering ball with good grease before and after every winter. Check motor bolts. Check steering linkages for loose parts, there is more redundancy than on load 75 (which go floppy and vague within 1000 miles, though failure is rare and used down to not being assembled right by shop or end user), adjust steering bush washers (never over tighten to make up for wear). Check headsets especially upper rear headset, just whack a load of grease in it, helps stops watery sitting on the bearing.
Freehub on casette bikes is an excellent piece of kit, don't put a hope on it thinking your upgrading it! Needs taken apart once a year and cleaned regressed with the nice light freehub grease.
You'll find hub, headset, steering bearings that are supplied stock are very good. Rear spokes vary between you'll get 10k hard use with no issues and having to rebuild the damn wheel after 500 miles (use sapim strong is enough, e strong sort of fits hub holes), keep the alex supra rim, there is no better 26" rim available. Try ryde/rigida hd 30 or 40 is next best rim available.
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just curious
i have a 2019 ebullitt with an e6100 drive unit and Di2XT drivetrain.
It's got maybe 4k miles on it.
rather remarkably i haven't done a single thing to it since purchase other than replace the pads, upgrade the chain.
should i do anything to service the bike, drivetrain or drive unit? I'm constantly expecting something to fail. i transport kids on it, so it needs to continue to be be safe and reliable.
i'm thinking check chain-ring-cog wear, bleed brakes, replace pads again, make sure the steering hardware is snug.
can I update the firmware?
bey0nd that nothing.