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Replacing the hanger is probably a five minute job. Finding the correct one is much harder. Replacement spoke is cheap, but making a wheel run true is a bit fiddly and I'm not particularly good at it.
I've already put aside plenty of money for an upgrade, it's the choosing one that I hate.
Also: NZ has a Workride scheme where you can get a bike with no GST paid off over a year from your pre-tax wages/salary. It works out somewhere around 50% off the actual sale price for a typical worker (though some of that is from your own Kiwisaver contribution and/or student loan repayments, which you're technically just putting off and not actually saving in the very long term).
I didn't know about the workride scheme! Personally I'm not sure I can justify the cost if an ebike even at 50%ish off, and I'm not going to be riding it to work on account of working from home most of the time. But I'll definitely be telling others!