ebike owner here and my 2c is they shouldn't be racing together. Charity events and fondos and stuff, fair enough.
I use mine for recreation, but would never to think of entering it in anything aside from paris-dakar rally.
I don't think e-bikes need be on common mountainbike trails. What's going to be next ?
Are you against gay marriage too? Sounds like something they'd start their argument off with.
I just don't think every trail needs to be shared with e-bikers. There's lots of other places to ride e-bikes and it's not much different to mountainbiking on dedicated walking trails.
I have to wonder if we are at a similar point with them as with other entirely new applications of technology we have seen - when the Prius was released I doubt anyone saw the McLaren P1 coming 15 years later. Thats a slightly different example, but it does make me wonder if the ebikes are just going to get exponentially faster and faster over the next few years until they really are nearly like a sustitute for a dirtbike.
The fact that you see conversation about the current MTB brakes being insufficent for pulling ebikes up is a concern to me - given the weight is not THAT much more than a regular MTB, it sorta indicates to me that they are already holding much faster speeds for much longer than regular MTBs.
t some busted their asses on this event and some did it considerably easier but they were weren't distinguished between.
As the owner and user of one with highly illegal power output...you're not a little biased are you? :behindsofa:Are you against gay marriage too? Sounds like something they'd start their argument off with.
i don't care about busting butts to complete events - each to their own. But in a competitive or timed event that isn't a 'fun' style event it's pretty poor form. If you think about the equivalence in other sports, you'd quickly realise how stupid the idea of mixing powered and unpowered disciplines is, even if they are timed separately.
I just don't think every trail needs to be shared with e-bikers. There's lots of other places to ride e-bikes and it's not much different to mountainbiking on dedicated walking trails.
As the owner and user of one with highly illegal power output...you're not a little biased are you? :behindsofa:
Love, moorbags the dickhole.
There a Shakespeare quote that I can't remember.....Are you calling me gay?
Edit: Using an ebike in a race with people without ebikes is cheating.
They're top end heavy and harder to tight corner with and going up hill is like using 1/8 of your strength so if you built a dedicated trail for an e-bike it will be somewhat different.Is that why? Because you think it's the same as mountain bikes pinging down walking tracks with old people and prams?
A mountain bike sharing a walking path != an ebike sharing a mtbike trail or track.
Ebike's only advantages are endurance and hill climbing. In terms of every other aspect, ebikes (pedal assist specifically) are exactly the same as regular mountain bikes.
So what's the real problem you have?
Edit: using an ebike in a non ebike event is not on.
As the owner and user of one with highly illegal power output...you're not a little biased are you? :behindsofa:
Love, moorbags the dickhole.
Whoa, ease up turbo. Was just having a good natured dig at a dickhole who ruined a perfectly good spitty. Tom has said a lot on this matter. Never on the back foot.Enough said, you can sort of predict this shit when people are fast to get on their back foot. :whistle: