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Why does nobody outside of Toronto repair these things?

Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 16:21:29 No.2048187 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2048189 >>2048260 >>2048263 >>2048264 >>2048302 >>2048436 >>2048738

Not a single fucking shop in Ontario wants to touch electric stand-on kick scooters for any reason.

I'm not going all the way to Toronto to fix a single wiring issue that killed the throttle after driving through an ankle-deep puddle.

Google keeps bringing up Durham E-Bikes Sales and Service which specifically says in their website "SORRY WE DO NOT SERVICE STAND-ON KICK SCOOTERS".

What is with these things that make repair shops so scared of them?

With how popular they are getting there are gonna be a LOT of angry stranded scooter users when they start breaking down.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Jul 2025 16:35:33 No.2048189 Report

Quoted By: >>2048253

>>2048187
Because most of those things are made to be disposable e-waste products from China that you ride once and never touch again, they're not made to be serviceable

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Jul 2025 03:58:59 No.2048253 Report

Quoted By: >>2048261 >>2048302 >>2048730

>>2048189
And yet there would be a big untapped market for those who wanted to try and service them. Literally leaving money on the table by not even trying to fix these things.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 12 Jul 2025 04:42:39 No.2048260 Report

Quoted By:

>>2048187
>What is with these things that make repair shops so scared of them?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Jul 2025 04:51:53 No.2048261 Report

Quoted By:

>>2048253
There's your path to being a billionaire then. :DD

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Jul 2025 05:41:35 No.2048263 Report

Quoted By: >>2048302

>>2048187
Because they'll burn down an apartment complex and then you're liable for $30m. If you charge what anyone would be willing to pay you're going to make a loss on insurance alone.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Jul 2025 05:46:36 No.2048264 Report

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>>2048187
Just do it yourself? Its just 2 wheels with a hub motor, a speed controller and a battery anon.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 12 Jul 2025 11:34:13 No.2048290 Report

Quoted By: >>2048291

Because escooter owners are retarded and bike shop owners don't want to deal with you whining over any potential setbacks or the cost of repairs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Jul 2025 11:38:30 No.2048291 Report

Quoted By: >>2048293

>>2048290
>here's the estimate for a new battery
>that costs more than I paid for the scooter!
>I know, that's why you need a new battery
>shocked_pikachu.gif

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 12 Jul 2025 11:40:28 No.2048293 Report

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>>2048291
I bet OP doesn't even know how to replace an inner tube. lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Jul 2025 14:04:54 No.2048302 Report

Quoted By:

>>2048187
>>2048253
>What is with these things that make repair shops so scared of them?
Because most chinese-made devices lead to the exact scenario when you take them to the repair shop
>hello there Mr. Repair Man who repairs things, I would like you to repair the shitty chinese thing I got from amazon or aliexpress
>that might be difficult as these wholesalers do not have much of a repair system or spare parts distribution network, but I will see what I can do. Initial repair quote is at [insert amount of money]
>WHAT KIND OF SCAM IS THIS, [amount of money] is twice what I paid for the entire thing, I am going to buy a new one
And that's not even bringing up the liability that is your workshop warranty on a device that is designed in every way to stop working and be replaced rather than fixed and >>2048263 too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Jul 2025 15:54:22 No.2048327 Report

Quoted By: >>2048427

Wow guess i'm -600 dollars then I'll just put the shit on the curb thanks faggots.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Jul 2025 15:57:01 No.2048329 Report

Quoted By: >>2048427

Last time I come to this dogshit board btw enjoy your circlejerking over bicycles

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 08:35:09 No.2048427 Report

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>>2048327
>>2048329
You're the fag with the escooter retard. Kill yourself

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 08:42:49 No.2048429 Report

Quoted By: >>2048430 >>2048518

You have to be either underage or a really sad lazy fuck to ride something that goes 15 miles per hour at most with a range of like 15 miles instead of just riding a bike that goes way faster for a miniscule amount of extra effort and has virtually infinite range. I understand there is a real niche for shit like this but it also invites retards like OP who think they have a legitimate transportation solution and not just some Chinese toy

OP is a fag

OP is a fag Sun 13 Jul 2025 08:46:50 No.2048430 Report

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>>2048429
Where I live most people who ride escooters are teenagers. One of the few times I saw an adult on one he went on the sidewalk and sped through an intersection with a car coming. The meme is real. Bunch of retards.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 08:51:51 No.2048431 Report

Quoted By: >>2048433

I'm an ebike fag and even I look down on scooter fags

>Hit a tiny rock
>Die

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 09:01:06 No.2048433 Report

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>>2048431
I respect e-bike fags because e-bikes are generally more serviceable and have real world utility and most e-bikes aren't just chinese toys, but I can't stand how they're always compared to non-ebikes. The two aren't the same thing, a bicycle is a human powered vehicle that's designed for efficiency, an e-bike is like a stopgap between a bike and an electric moped

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Jul 2025 10:43:10 No.2048436 Report

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>>2048187
I fixed such thing for a friend. His was a name brand thingy. It was a pain to work on and cknstruction and quality were such that I can relate to repair shops refusing to work on them. In the chinese factory they onl, need to assemble it once. So if say some thread was cut wonky they'd just try anyways, do 'er up and if she holds thats abother finished product. Now knock on wood.
But taking it apart again might mean it's never coming back together.
If the environment those exist in where more akin to bicycles: Frame manufacturers make parts that need to go together with standardized components etc. id expect the quality to be better but the price higher. The design of those things really is analogous to the typical rental bike thing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Jul 2025 00:35:45 No.2048518 Report

Quoted By: >>2048522 >>2048533 >>2048676

>>2048429
>sad lazy fuck

nigger the one I use can go 40km max and when I get 20k steps in at work no shot I'm blowing out my knees riding a bike just to get to work, zoomer bikefags are cringe, scooters are the future

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Jul 2025 02:42:07 No.2048522 Report

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>>2048518
>when I get 20k steps in at work no shot I'm blowing out my knees riding a bike just to get to work,
Translating your monkey units to Freedom Units gives me 12 miles

My guy, I literally just got back from a 20 mile ride to the fucking beach bro, and that's one way
You are a sad lazy fuck, you don't need an E-scooter, you need a mobility scooter.

OP is a fag

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OP is a fag Mon 14 Jul 2025 10:19:46 No.2048533 Report

Quoted By: >>2048543

>>2048518
>20k steps at work
Only fat people use steps as a metric for personal fitness. You fat bastard

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Jul 2025 14:30:36 No.2048543 Report

Quoted By: >>2048677 >>2048728

>>2048533
That is not true, my 79 year old mother measures steps because her doctor said she's not allowed ti ride bikes or run anymore because if she falls she's going to break a bone. You don't know how old anon is, maybe they're pushing 80

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Anonymous Tue 15 Jul 2025 15:20:15 No.2048676 Report

Quoted By: >>2048678 >>2048728

>>2048518
>e-scooter rider calling someone else a nigger

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 15 Jul 2025 15:21:58 No.2048677 Report

Quoted By:

>>2048543
Shut up fatty McFatcunt, fatmiester general of Fatsville.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 15 Jul 2025 15:28:47 No.2048678 Report

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>>2048676
It's a fair point though, the diverse ride fatbikes now.

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Anonymous Tue 15 Jul 2025 22:52:35 No.2048728 Report

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>>2048543
>mostly true observation
>"but what about this outlier example?"
Come on now...next you'll tell me fitness freaks also count steps because they watched a jeff nippard video one time.
>>2048676
Generational retardation has really done a number on escooter riders

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 15 Jul 2025 23:02:49 No.2048730 Report

Quoted By: >>2049559

>>2048253
>And yet there would be a big untapped market for those who wanted to try and service them.
lol
I bet you want to fix tv's too

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 15 Jul 2025 23:38:12 No.2048738 Report

Quoted By:

>>2048187
Russian here. We used to have a LOT of kulibins trying to fix these shits. Most of them kept accumulating dead unsalvageable boards and BMS-es, vaults of questionably good 18650s that are not cost effective to test, and broken structural components that you can only get by buying a brand new one of these. You know what was common practice for quite a few models of e-scoots? Etching down the fucking solder mask off the driver board and tinning the fucking traces to let them pull that little bit more amperage without immediately blowing up. You know what that lead to? Them still blowing up, but now at higher loads, thus putting you into more danger. That's the reason scoot manufacturers started putting dick brakes on these, not to make you brake better, but to safeguard you from suddenly finding yourself with no brakes when it inevitably does blow up.
Eventually most of these guys went back to fixing bicycles and monowheels and never touching scoots again, the few who remained became rental scooter techs who couldn't care less about your black piece of trash, they have their hands full already.
E-bike can't break, it can just temporarily become bike, so they are much easier to work on. On the other hand, monos actually take reliability and durability seriously because they have an autistic community and word of mouth spreads, if your shit is a faceplant machine you'll get blacklisted and only chumps will buy it. Scoots' biggest market are rentals, so you are getting the lowest common denominator, made to be as cheap and disposable as possible. You bought a Kia Rio of non-car transportation, its explicit purpose is to turn into a pile of rust right after its warranty expires, except all of these scoots are chink and chinks don't respect warranty anyway so the threat of expiration is immediate.
Is it possible to make a quality e-scooter? It is, but you won't buy one, it'll be too expensive, you'll just upgrade to a shit model with bigger number instead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 16 Jul 2025 12:15:32 No.2048793 Report

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>canadian
Shut up

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 25 Jul 2025 04:26:31 No.2049559 Report

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>>2048730
>I bet you want to fix tv's too
Fixing TV's is actually stupid easy usually depending on make and model. Mostly due to the fact that while they're mass produced they aren't glued an soldered and held together with fragile plastic clips designed to break like smartphones and shitty laptops are out of maliciousness mostly. They don't need to do any of that since most people with twenty different streaming subscriptions can't be bothered to do some 30 minutes of research to trouble shoot what may be a very simple problem. Not like a TV exists to commute on nor does it store all your beloved family photo's that people don't backup for some reason so throwing it away ain't nothing to people usually.

t. anon who was given a free broken Samsung TV with decent specs and all I had to do was remove a bunch of screws that were all the same size and disconnect like two or tree ribbon cables to swap in a non busted timing board.
Of course I did that for fun basically, I enjoy seeing if I can bring stuff back to life. I have no delusions on such a venture being at all profitable however and I'm perfectly content with keeping that as just a hobby.

I wonder how E-scooters would fair with their environments if say a country that gave a fuck like Japan or Italy were to make them however.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Jul 2025 07:43:43 No.2049571 Report

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because you're a cucknadian who lives in a 3rd world country run by streetshitters. ALL "scooters" are Chinese junk that isn't worth fixing, or can only get worse afterwards

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