QftBoy, e-bikers must have some lobbying juice. Traditional mtb riders can't even seem to keep from being given the boot in uncrowded areas where we've ridden for decades.
See Montana Gallatin River/Big Sky area and Idaho White Clouds, for example.
It will be interesting to see what effect this has. IIRC, most National Parks don't allow bicycles on actual trails, anyway. I must be missing something.
It will be interesting to see what effect this has. IIRC, most National Parks don't allow bicycles on actual trails, anyway. I must be missing something.
750 watts. Think about that.
It will be interesting to see what effect this has. IIRC, most National Parks don't allow bicycles on actual trails, anyway. I must be missing something.
I did a 30 mile ride last week, set a KOM and got a bunch of PRs. My average wattage was supposedly 130. 750 is just ludicrous to me. It might be just the right amount of power though if someone from "My 600 lb Life" wants to start e-biking.
That's in my opinion only good thing of these mopeds. I admit I have no idea how things are in US, but over here, especially in my home country, I'm basically doing something illegal every single time I sit on bike. In all these years mtb exists, we didn't achieve a single thing. Not riders, not tourist organizations (bike tourism is actually pretty big thing here in central Europe), not cycling organization. We are still more or less not allowed to ride anything but roads. Good thing is, noone gives a shit and we all ride, and police doesn't check. And for all to be even more absurd, in Slovenia penalty for riding off road in natural environment is 150eur for mountain biker, and 40eur for mx or car driver... go figureBoy, e-bikers must have some lobbying juice. Traditional mtb riders can't even seem to keep from being given the boot in uncrowded areas where we've ridden for decades.
this also applies to National Monuments as well and National Forest both of which have some pretty extensive trails networks in them.
There are also a couple national parks with Singletrack riding in them 2 I have been to are Redwoods National Park and Cuyahoga Valley Nationa Park, in fact East Rim trail in Cuyahoga Valley is really well built.
Let be real though E bike are not really the enemy. The limiting factor for mtb riding will be technical skills even on a E-bike. If more e bike access means more national park/national forest trails being built is that really a bad thing?
this also applies to National Monuments as well and National Forest both of which have some pretty extensive trails networks in them.
"Of bigger concern is the Estero Trail, a personal favorite, where present rules would permit them out to the ridge that overlooks Drakes Estero. Rangers could solve this by banning mountain bikes here, a worthy sacrifice that would take care of the eBike issue in a single maneuver."