E-bikes are a thing

[a.s.]

Added!

Can you make it so we know who voted what so we can shame people? 🤣

 

[sundaydoug]

Can you make it so we know who voted what so we can shame people? 🤣

I'll save you the trouble. I just placed the first vote.

 

[tonyride]

I feel like it would be hard to go back and forth, like a normal bike would feel slow and boring after riding an ebike. Maybe I just don't want to ride one because then I'll surely have to buy one 😜

I have gone back and forth and I'm still enjoying both. Maybe it is because my analogue bike is a hardtail so the experience is different enough to be interesting.

 

[Norm]

I feel like it would be hard to go back and forth, like a normal bike would feel slow and boring after riding an ebike. Maybe I just don't want to ride one because then I'll surely have to buy one 😜

Eh. Not you but most of us flip flop between road bike & mountain bike weekly. For years I routinely rode a SS mixed in there. Mentally you just have rules what you ride where.

That said an eMTB might merely pave the way for eRoad. Then ePogo stick.

Also fuck all you assholes who use electric razors. Straight razor for life.

 

[w_b]

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and add in some NUCK TATS while you at it. Always NUCK TATS.

 

[JimN]

Not you but most of us flip flop between road bike & mountain bike weekly.

That's not really apples to apples though. And believe it or not, I also used to ride a road bike, mainly in the summer when it was disgustingly hot and buggy in the woods.

For years I routinely rode a SS mixed in there.

I used to ride Lewis Morris several times a week. I mostly rode my SS there, but I occasionally had to ride my full suspension instead, and it was terrible. It was just so slow and boring. I'm trying to imagine riding an ebike on hard mountain bike trails, and then riding my normal bike there.

 

[mattybfat]

Way I look at it is I have a shot at riding again with my teamies @Chris26er @pooriggy and @UtahJoe again lol

 

[mtn]

Eh. Not you but most of us flip flop between road bike & mountain bike weekly. For years I routinely rode a SS mixed in there. Mentally you just have rules what you ride where.

That said an eMTB might merely pave the way for eRoad. Then ePogo stick.

Also fuck all you assholes who use electric razors. Straight razor for life.

eWheelchair

 

[Ian F]

I feel like it would be hard to go back and forth, like a normal bike would feel slow and boring after riding an ebike. Maybe I just don't want to ride one because then I'll surely have to buy one 😜

My friend does, although it depends on how she feels and if the planned ride has a lot of climbing (climbs are what really kill her knees). I think it's partly it's because she has a pimped out Evil and I think she doesn't want to see hang on the wall.

 

[UtahJoe]

I would love to have one so long as I could have a hand throttle added....I think that would be pretty sweet for riding tech.

I would also like to ride the latest and greatest ebike on some of my local downhills....The last 2018 I rode was fun, but it was nothing on a downhill compared to my SC bronson....heavy, harder to turn/move, too much weight for the brakes it had......im sure 4 years later they are improved.

 

[stb222]

I used to ride Lewis Morris several times a week. I mostly rode my SS there, but I occasionally had to ride my full suspension instead, and it was terrible. It was just so slow and boring.

Says the guy who rides a fat bike most of the time

 

[JimN]

Says the guy who rides a fat bike all of the time

Exactly. Trying to go back and forth between a fat bike and a regular bike would be difficult too. And the trails I ride now are slightly more difficult than Lewis Morris.

 

[Norm]

And the trails I ride now are slightly more difficult than Lewis Morris.

See, this is where you lose all credibility.

 

[JimN]

See, this is where you lose all credibility.

Can't lose something you never had.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Exactly. Trying to go back and forth between a fat bike and a regular bike would be difficult too. And the trails I ride now are slightly more difficult than Lewis Morris.

I wander between a Surly Moonlander and an Intense Tracer all the time, with a road bike occasionally thrown in. I have done sixty mile road rides on the Moonlander and rocky downhill on a road bike.

Carbon fiber and anything with a battery, save lights, I'm staying the hell away from.

 

[Captain Brainstorm]

You have just equated people that ride ebikes to people that commit fraud. That sounds pretty rationale. I really don't care peoples opinions either way but this may be the worst analogy.

I think that trying to fool yourself is probably the worst kind of fraud there is.

 

[JimN]

I think that trying to fool yourself is probably the worst kind of fraud there is.

I would imagine that only a small percentage of people that buy e-bikes do it because they are too injured, or are fooling themselves into thinking they are too injured, for a normal bike. Most probably just buy them because they want to have fun.

 

[Norm]

I would imagine that only a small percentage of people that buy e-bikes do it because they are too injured, or are fooling themselves into thinking they are too injured, for a normal bike. Most probably just buy them because they want to have fun.

I agree. Much like people take a lift to the top of the ski hill instead of walking.

 

[tonyride]

I would imagine that only a small percentage of people that buy e-bikes do it because they are too injured, or are fooling themselves into thinking they are too injured, for a normal bike. Most probably just buy them because they want to have fun.

Yup.

 

[tonyride]

I agree. Much like people take a lift to the top of the ski hill instead of walking.

I noticed more and more ebikes are of the long travel slack enduro variety which suggests those riders get their fun from hammering downhill rather than tackling endless climbs to get them to do those runs. I don't know of places in NJ with long climbs up so you can shred down (until MC lets you ride your bike up) but at Pisgah I hated doing the gravel climb up Avery Creek in to ride down with about 5.5 miles of climbing and only 4 miles of downhill. We actually thought about taking turns doing shuttle runs. That is the perfect place for a bike that can shuttle you up so you can bomb down. I guess that's why Pivot called their ebike Shuttle.