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Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 02:02:42 No.2704784 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2704834 >>2704854 >>2705046 >>2705604 >>2708172 >>2709601 >>2709956 >>2710040 >>2711550

How do you feel about e-bikes /out/? Specifically the class 1-2 ones that are basically bikes with a pedal assist to go uphill, not the class 3's that are basically motorcycles

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 02:34:23 No.2704793 Report

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>basically motorcycles
take a long walk off a short pier

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 04:15:40 No.2704834 Report

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>>2704784
>e-bike
FFS Grandma, we talked about this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 06:22:07 No.2704854 Report

Quoted By: >>2705018 >>2705032 >>2705112 >>2711597

>>2704784
E-bike dipshits who don’t pay attention to conditions are responsible for 90% of the mtb trail degredation in my area. Our club used to have two maintenance days per year on each of our trails and now some are completely ratchet despite monthly maintenance days. We don’t let people ride gas mopeds on the trails and we shouldn’t let electric mopeds on the trail either. The e-bikers don’t show up to these days generally either.

We lost access to the property that my favorite trail was on because of this. Stick to roads with the other motorized vehicles.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 19:32:41 No.2705018 Report

Quoted By: >>2705160 >>2705259 >>2711597

>>2704854
What causes the degradation? The weight of the bike or the throttled tires?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 20:06:21 No.2705032 Report

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>>2704854
>using the word "ratchet"
I don't want to ever see you outdoors

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 20:37:16 No.2705046 Report

Quoted By: >>2705058 >>2705593

>>2704784
I don't dislike them. At the end of the day it's a fun way to get out and exercise. Only downside is that for the same price, you can get a really nice normal bike, and you don't have to charge those.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 21:30:33 No.2705058 Report

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>>2705046
>e-bike
>exercise

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 22:00:21 No.2705063 Report

Quoted By: >>2705064 >>2711597

>>2705058
all it does is assist when you want to use it. you still have to pedal to regenerate it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 22:02:12 No.2705064 Report

Quoted By: >>2705069 >>2711653

>>2705063
>pedaling with no resistance
>exercise

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 22:12:28 No.2705069 Report

Quoted By: >>2705070 >>2705249 >>2711510

>>2705064
you've clearly never ridden an e-bike, so keep making a fool of yourself. it's just like riding a normal bike, you can choose when to boost.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 22:14:44 No.2705070 Report

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>>2705069
Okay sorry

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 22:17:14 No.2705071 Report

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I assume anyone on an ebike is a fag.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 00:30:06 No.2705112 Report

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>>2704854
>nooooo my mountain bike trail must be properly pedicured!!
lmao, i thought the whole point was to be "gnar gnar" and go balls to the wall? Faggots

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 03:21:13 No.2705160 Report

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>>2705112
I’m not in the PNW where the trails are on rock, I’m in the upper Midwest and our soils are clay heavy. Erosion is a problem when people don’t respect the trails.
>>2705018
When the frost isn’t out of the ground, but the surface is soft, the trail surfaces slide terribly. And if we get heavy rain, the poorly drained soils mean that sometimes we need to stay off the trails for a day or so.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 07:55:42 No.2705249 Report

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>>2705069
>it's just like riding a normal bike

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 09:19:55 No.2705259 Report

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>>2705018
>What causes the degradation?
if the ground is wet you dont go in with a vehicle.
Everybody is familiar with that concept, expect-e bike faggots

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 09:22:13 No.2705261 Report

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>expect

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Mar 2024 05:35:54 No.2705593 Report

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>>2705046
>for the same price, you can get a really nice normal bike,
REALLY nice.
I saw one the other day for NZ$22,500.
Obviously that's at the upper end of things, but holy shit, that's a nice used Subaru, 2 more than capable analog bikes, and change for a few weekends away.
If they were anything approaching value for money, I'd get one immediately. It would mean I could easily get a few runs in after work, rather than one short one getting home after dark in winter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Mar 2024 06:36:23 No.2705604 Report

Quoted By: >>2709583

>>2704784
They are for the weak and old.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Mar 2024 03:56:48 No.2707238 Report

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ebikes seem great if you're rich and disabled or a rich person that lives in the mountains and all the trails are a long fire road and a cool downhill.

I live in an area with mostly XC trails so ebikes kinda defeat the purpose if you aren't disabled.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Mar 2024 01:41:42 No.2707496 Report

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I got one last year and I like it overall.

The main reason I got one is because I am disabled, and while I can ride a normal bicycle, I don't like to ride in city traffic because I take too long at red lights to get up to speed and outside of the city when I reach a uphill section I either have to get off and walk or I have to get up there very slowly and with a lot of effort. The e-bike fixes both of these things. I ride with little to no support (unless I need to get somewhere quick) normally, and use the motor on uphill sections or to get up to speed when needed.
Overall it just made me use the bicycle a lot more than before.
For a healthy person they are still great for transportation and fun, but not so sure how great they are as an /out/ vehicle. True e-mtbs are expensive (a lot of e-mtbs aren't actually rated for MTB trails), the range means you won't really go on a multi day camping joyride and it won't really take a healthy person to any places a normal bicycle wouldn't.
But I do love mine, even though it was such a budget buy. Gets me to go fishing and just riding random places in the forest a lot more.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Mar 2024 03:12:38 No.2708168 Report

Quoted By: >>2711789

ebikes and electric cars share the same disadvantage which is battery replacement cost. I could also go on about how environmentally disastrous those batteries are from mining the raw material to disposal...

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Mar 2024 03:37:47 No.2708172 Report

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>>2704784
These things have ruined early season in Glaicer, you used to be able to walk or bike the GTTS road to the loop parking lot and generally avoid tourists. There must've been a popular tik tok or something because now the road is full of ebike niggers until it's open to cars.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 17 Mar 2024 17:38:57 No.2709583 Report

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>>2705604
if you can constantly go 25mph+ for 80km then yeah you dont need an ebike, for the rest of us its pretty comfy though

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 17 Mar 2024 18:37:30 No.2709601 Report

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>>2704784
They aren't fun. I like to be able to do jumps.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Mar 2024 23:08:48 No.2709956 Report

Quoted By: >>2711415

>>2704784
Luckily most of my MTB trails ban them, so haven't had any negative experiences. Rented one for my dad who used to be an avid mountain biker. We did an easy trail he's too old for now a days which was really awesome. Imagine I would get one once I was too old/ fat for daily climbing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Mar 2024 06:12:07 No.2710040 Report

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>>2704784
I had one and the motor cord broke
Just get a dirt bike, trust me ebikes go 20 mph max and only get 30 miles per charge which takes six hours

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2024 04:07:13 No.2711415 Report

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>>2709956
mountain bikers are such faggots putting up fences and "bike only" signs, the entitlement is fucking insane

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Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2024 15:32:39 No.2711510 Report

Quoted By: >>2711653

>>2705069
>it's just like riding a normal bike

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2024 17:20:23 No.2711548 Report

Quoted By: >>2711598

As long as you go outside and ride a bike, I don’t care what that bike is.
Casual riding is not a competition, you’re not cheating anything being on an e-bike.
I personally don’t have much interest in them because I just ride normal bikes.
The negative view of them can apply to anyone on a bike, dickweeds going fast as fuck with little regard to others or the trail, that can be anyone. It’s just e-bikes made the barrier of entry to that, I wouldn’t say lower, but expanded it to include just people with a bunch of money.
Before e-bikes if you wanted to be that asshole you had to really be in shape.

I don’t like them from a consumer perspective either, I think they give an appearance that cycling is expensive. Kinda the same effect people trying to get into mountain biking experience when they see YouTubers with thousands of dollars sunk into full suspension bikes, and they have different bikes for different things, and they look at it like a rich person hobby.
Forgetting that you can go do 99% of the same shit with a budget hardtail.
I think people see e-bikes as that barrier to the hobby as well, it’s a bad image.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2024 17:24:25 No.2711550 Report

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>>2704784
>basically motorcycles

Lol they wish. Only faggots and homeless losers ride ebikes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2024 20:17:03 No.2711597 Report

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>>2704854
The sign says "NO MOTORIZED VEHICLES"
An E bike has an electric motor--it shouldn't be on the trail that bans Motorized Vehicles and violators must be reported and you should kick the shit out of them.
>>2705018
>The power assist digs ruts exponentially faster than manual peddling.
>E bikes are also significantly heavier than non motorized bikes which accelerates erosion.
>E bikes are almost always ridden by idiots
>>2705063
This isn't at all how most people use them dude. Most people plug-charge them and treat them like an electric motorcycle that is treated like a "bicycle" in most situations.
(No insurance, no license etc..)

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2024 20:19:40 No.2711598 Report

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>>2711548
I care.
If it has a motor don't take it on trails that specifically ban motorized vehicles.
It isn't a fucking bike: it has a motor and I don't give a shit that the motor is electric I don't want to be around some fuck-face doing 40 on a bike trail because they're too retarded to understand an electric motor is still a motor.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2024 21:42:24 No.2711653 Report

Quoted By: >>2711850

>>2711510
>>2705064
To be fair I only use the motor when I'm gassed out or going uphill

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 24 Mar 2024 03:25:52 No.2711789 Report

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>>2708168
Cars have the advantage of the batteries lasting a significant amount of time and the cost to the environment for mining and disposing is STILL less than the massive amount of pollution caused by ripping fossil fuels out of the earth, refining them, then burning more of them to transport the refined material everywhere and then set it on fire.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 24 Mar 2024 08:17:51 No.2711850 Report

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>>2711653
Imagine a boxer saying something like this

>To be fair I only use the brass knuckles when I think I am going to lose

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