E-bikes are a thing

Ebikes??

  • I have never ridden one

    Votes: 99 40.7%

  • I have ridden one for over an hour on a trail and I’ll never buy one

    Votes: 9 3.7%

  • I have ridden one in a trail for over an hr and I am considering one

    Votes: 19 7.8%

  • I’ll never give up my analog bike but I’ll still get an ebike

    Votes: 35 14.4%

  • Did he just say analog bike?

    Votes: 36 14.8%

  • My knees are failing and an ebike in inevitable

    Votes: 17 7.0%

  • My next bike will certainly be an ebike.

    Votes: 19 7.8%

  • I’ll never own an ebike, even when I’m 90

    Votes: 25 10.3%

  • Ebikes cause more trail damage than analog bikes

    Votes: 8 3.3%

  • Ebikes have no more trail impact than a traditional bike.

    Votes: 64 26.3%

  • I hate anyone on an ebike

    Votes: 7 2.9%

  • Anyone on a bike is a friend of mine, ebike or not

    Votes: 92 37.9%

  • I’ve been seeing ebikes in the woods regularly

    Votes: 53 21.8%

  • I’ve never seen an ebike on the trail

    Votes: 15 6.2%

  • It's called an Acoustic bike

    Votes: 14 5.8%

  • “I may consider one after my body is all used up and broken"

    Votes: 64 26.3%

  • I already own an off-road Ebike

    Votes: 35 14.4%

  • I have no interest in an e-bike

    Votes: 13 5.3%

  • Arguing against ebikes is kerfuffle

    Votes: 15 6.2%

  • I like Matty no matter what he rides

    Votes: 19 7.8%
  • Total voters
    243
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Glenn Rides After 4 PM CST said:
2 more killed.
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Well that's absolutely insane.
 
JimN said:
They are classified as motorized vehicles, so they were legal anywhere that was already legal, like Slickrock. All the singletrack on BLM land was off limits, but I doubt many people cared. The shuttle companies were serious about not taking e-bikes up though. I was on a shuttle to Mag 7 last year, and this dude gets on with no bike. He had driven his e-bike all the way up to the drop off point and stashed it, drove all the way back down, and then took the shuttle back up so he could ride his e-bike on Mag 7 and back to town. Ridiculous.
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UtahJoe said:
I didnt even realize they were illegal....just kinda funny in Utah...you can drive anything anywhere and shoot guns out the window of whatever your driving. (find a road sign in the dessert that ISN'T full of bullet holes 🙂 ) But e-bikes? NO WAY lol.
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Would you try and do that in front a Police officer to make sure that "you can" do that in Utah? Take pictures, let us know...LOL
 
Ian F said:
It's a Pinkbike point of pride. The general hatred of e-bikes there makes our discussions look positively loving.
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I mean to me its a given in every activity that I have ever been part of....Cars, Motocross, Skiing, bikes....This is ok, but you BETTER NOT DO THAT!!!!


serviceguy said:
Would you try and do that in front a Police officer to make sure that "you can" do that in Utah? Take pictures, let us know...LOL
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Never tried it myself, but I spent a TON of time in the far off corners of the Utah desert growing up......people did whatever the fuck they wanted to...my personal favorite was the guy we used to see who had a replica of a civil war cannon that he would shoot. In NJ we find old cars abandoned in the woods occasionally....in Utah when you find them, they have 100,000 bullet holes in them. If its a man made structure in the desert, someone has shot at it. Point being....jesus, but someone cared about ebikes? im surprised.
 
UtahJoe said:
I mean to me its a given in every activity that I have ever been part of....Cars, Motocross, Skiing, bikes....This is ok, but you BETTER NOT DO THAT!!!!



Never tried it myself, but I spent a TON of time in the far off corners of the Utah desert growing up......people did whatever the fuck they wanted to...my personal favorite was the guy we used to see who had a replica of a civil war cannon that he would shoot. In NJ we find old cars abandoned in the woods occasionally....in Utah when you find them, they have 100,000 bullet holes in them. If its a man made structure in the desert, someone has shot at it. Point being....jesus, but someone cared about ebikes? im surprised.
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Off topic, but muzzle loaded cannons are not regulated by the ATF and pretty much anyone can own one. I know a guy in NJ who has one. Now actually firing it will be subject to local ordinances - which I understand are fairly loose in many western states.

And I don't think anyone in Utah were the ones who care much about e-bikes. It's a BLM thing and getting changes through can take some time. Sometimes I think authorities will look at a rule they have to enforce and weigh the logistical costs required to actually do the enforcement vs. whatever the rule is trying to do. When the "motorized vehicle" rule was created, e-bikes weren't really a thing. And as much as we like to make fun of the Govt there are real people there with common sense and once in a while they are allowed to use it.
 
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