Call me a snob but I don't want to mix or be lumped in with the dirt bike demographic!
Yep, you're a snob.
I alternate between my ebikes, dirt bike and supersport motorcycle. If it's got 2 wheels it's all good in my books. There's lots of places I won't take my dirt bike (it's only for farm and state forest riding), a number of places I won't take my big ebike but virtually nowhere I won't take my smaller ebike. I could do more damage skidding around like a noob on a kmart bike if I wanted to so I sleep soundly knowing how and where I ride it I'm doing no damage.
Your pedals seem like they're just for decoration...
Granted the bike can go faster than I can pedal but I also have a schlumpf drive so I can pedal alot at much higher speeds than any other mountain bike would allow. They're not cheap so I wouldn't invest that sort of cash if I wasn't going to pedal. Again with a throttle you determine how hard or easy you have to work. Sometimes I take it easy, sometimes I pedal my arse off. As much as my health will allow anyway.
I don't like to play the health card because I was an ebike advocate even before that, but now I can't ride anything other than totally flat ground without issues so if it wasn't for electric assistance I wouldn't be able to ride trails any more. I have a shagged heart and lungs courtesy of chemo and radiotherapy and if my HR gets much about 150 I get dizzy then shortly after pass out. I nearly dropped on a fire trail the other night because I pushed too hard. And this was on the big beast of a bike that has all of the kilowatts. So yeah, I pedal.
Your rear tyre looks pretty slick, must come loose awful easy?
Yeah it's pretty much only for use on dirt roads and fire trails / state forests.
You can see how easy it is to rip a trail up in one go with the power the bike had when it was doing donuts
Yeah you could rip a trail up if you wanted to. But why would I want to do that ?? I enjoy riding trials just as much as the next person, I don't want to wreck them.
and it's perceived to me like you're ripping at a very fast speed in and out of blind corners, just look at all the dust it left behind, speeding up a vid doesn't make that much dust occur.
Yeah that was played up for that particular clip but as I said I don't tear into blind corners. I dont want a head on any more than you do! And the dust thing, that was just a particularly dry dusty day/patch. Most of the time there's no noticeable dust kicked up.
The action in these videos shouldn't be taken as a serious indication of all things ebike any more than all the mountain bike videos out there of guys doing insane redbull downhill courses or any number of other mountain bike vids that show people shredding trails in spectacular fashion.
I cant believe you've been able to scrape together any form of commerce from it, so I must congratulate you on any form of positive outcome that has arrived.
I mainly make the vids for my own fun but I guess there's a small following of a few thousand subscribers. I build bikes as a hobby, it's certainly not my day job!
It's best you only meet light hearted people on the trails, the grumpy as fuck arseholes among us can be hostile and quite rude at times.
I hadn't noticed. haha
I generally just boo and hiss when I see them around.
Geez mate, you're going to end up hurting someones feelings one day!
Now that all major brands are producing ebikes I'd guess they may be here to stay
I'm quite sure they are. It's evolution and it's unavoidable, which is all the more amusing to hear those who are hardcore against it all.
Fuck me! I Cant believe this thread won't die already.
Yeah I'd forgotten about it until I got the email notification someone had bumped it up.
I'll be on my way now.
