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Not if all the motor dopers are in there own class. I also don't understand female mtb racing when they have men cycling with them, pushing and pacing them or the fact that I have never seen a single drug test done at a local mtb race. What about that there are most of the time no marshals checking for people taking short cuts, we have all had that moment of how did this person get back in front of me. I'm cant even stop thinking about two people peddling one bicycle whilst I must pedal by myself. Now what about that rich guy with his 8kg full suspension bike that I have to compete against with my 14kg Gaint, how is that allowed. This is exactely why riding rather than racing is better because then none of this including motor dopers worry you.

You seem to have a very narrow perspective and experience of e-bikes and MTB racing in general. I have started many mtb races in the middle of the shoot with all kind of level of riders around me just to get to the first single track section with tons of very slow riders in front of me "messing things up" so how you can single out e-bikes as the only culprits, that's just ridicules special with so few e-bikes around. Your scenario can still play it self out in years to come I'm sure, but not right now. When that happens it will become viable to have separate e-bike events. You should be more concerned about roadies with big legs and no technical skills at this time. A qualified opinion is always the best one.

There is one thing seemingly over looked, we are getting up to 1000 riders in our local MTB events, most probably 90% of these riders are there for the social aspect of mountain biking, its also this 90% that make theses events financially viable for the organizers. It's within this sector, where the need for e-bikes are the greatest allowing family and friends to enjoy the event together. So why are a few racing snakes and CSA dictating the mood and rules of the events when they should be out front out of site of any e-bikes anyway. Or maybe I'm wrong and the mood are being driven by some wannabe's that will never be upfront but have ego's like they are.

I also dint like the rider on his full carbon 29er passing me on my 90tees chrome moly 26er but he chose to spend his money and I didn't. We all have choices in life.

There is a Strava category for e-bikes, why are there none for road bikes opposed to mountain bikes or for that matter bikes that cost over R 100 000.00 and under R 100 000.00 after all we know how much difference weight makes.

They didn't keel over they are being run over by cars, normally at that age they would not be be on bikes, they would have been sitting in front of the telly waiting to die I'm not sure which is better. If you have grade 6 math's, you can work your ride out, so that your battery don't run out, it's simple watts in watts out with these bike's.

I can only gather that you have never used one. Maximum speed on e bike or MTB will always be achieved going downhill, e bike are no faster than normal bike downhill. If you going to be riding outside your ability on a e-bike you are also going be doing the same on a normal bike, the only difference being that the e-bike is much safer than a normal bike because of the bigger tires and heavier weight.