Do eBikes belong on the mountain?

[Thor Buttox]

Must be weird to ride

You twist the throttle and your legs speed up....

I have heard from a friend that this is a similar experience to Viagra? Edited September 13, 2019 by Thor Buttox

[Fat Boab]

Asking for a friend...????

 

 

I have heard from a friend that this is a similar experience to Viagra?

[MudLark]

Sheesh.... Saturday.... an event.... rather large and rotund person on a zooty e-bike with a nice metallic paint job. Flat start... followed by a longish downhill of farm road....followed by some fairly steep and slightly technical ascents. E-biker comes bailing like hell past everyone else out the starting gates and down the road...only to completely flake out on the climb (lack of grunt or of skill, I just don't know), holding everyone else up as they try to work their way around the said e-biker.... [emoji85]

 

I wonder if they don't sometimes induce overconfidence in people who would be better off starting out at a more modest level? Oh well, not like some normal bike riders don't do the same I suppose.

[Patchelicious]

Now the lazy can hide their shame....

 

[BigDL]

Now the lazy can hide their shame....

 

https://twitter.com/cyclingnewsfeed/status/1194250049473126405?s=21

Looks stunning though.

[Patchelicious]

Looks stunning though.

Looks just like the new Super Six

[Duane_Bosch]

Looks just like the new Super Six

Get one of those. Lie about your weight on Zwift and you'll win a National title.

[Headshot]

Sheesh.... Saturday.... an event.... rather large and rotund person on a zooty e-bike with a nice metallic paint job. Flat start... followed by a longish downhill of farm road....followed by some fairly steep and slightly technical ascents. E-biker comes bailing like hell past everyone else out the starting gates and down the road...only to completely flake out on the climb (lack of grunt or of skill, I just don't know), holding everyone else up as they try to work their way around the said e-biker.... [emoji85]

 

I wonder if they don't sometimes induce overconfidence in people who would be better off starting out at a more modest level? Oh well, not like some normal bike riders don't do the same I suppose.

Perhaps he forgot to charge it - or switch it on? 

 

Then there was the story about an eBiker who forced some elderly riders off the single track as he tried to crack his E Assist Strava time at Tokai recently...

[MTBeer]

Perhaps he forgot to charge it - or switch it on? 

 

Then there was the story about an eBiker who forced some elderly riders off the single track as he tried to crack his E Assist Strava time at Tokai recently...

run of the mill MTBers have been doing that for years. Being on an E-bike doesn't make you a knob. Being a knob makes you a knob.

 

No I don't have or want an E-bike. Yet.

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

Perhaps he forgot to charge it - or switch it on? 

 

Then there was the story about an eBiker who forced some elderly riders off the single track as he tried to crack his E Assist Strava time at Tokai recently...

Sadly that would have happened if he were on a normal bike, too. That sort of attitude is typical of your more "A-Type" personalities. Or, in another language, fuggin cuuuunts. 

[lechatnoir]

Perhaps he forgot to charge it - or switch it on? 

 

Then there was the story about an eBiker who forced some elderly riders off the single track as he tried to crack his E Assist Strava time at Tokai recently...

 

this is more a case of 'do dwisses belong on the mountain' rather than e-bikes... what a pity for all parties

[Rigardt@Scott]

A friend came over from Hong Kong today for a wedding, and we decided to squeeze in a ride, I usually struggle to ride with him coz he is very fit (like very - won Berg and Bush mid week, W2W mid week, 3rd in 36One, and top 50 at the Epic). So I usually push myself int the red when I ride with him, which although nice is a bit of punishent. Anyway, he didn't bring a bike over so he had to hire one - and all that was available was an ebike from Ride Inn. I borrowed my old man's ebike for a day.

 

I just upped the assistance a bit more than he did and we could ride quite comfortably together today. We did Status Quo, Iron Monkey, Plumber, and Firehut - all top to bottom in just over 3 hours. Flipen impressive.

 

An ebike will never ever replace my normal enduro bike, but (one day) I will buy myself something like the new Spez Kenevo with a double crown fork - for a day like today an ebike was just the best tool for the job. Loved it.

Edited November 13, 2019 by Grease_Monkey

[Patchelicious]

So the concept of slowing a little to ride with less fit mates is out the window? Now it’s “I can use what I want to keep up with Sauser”.

 

Lekker, I’ll order some EPO, Clen and HGH so that I can keep up with the Cycle lab A batch ????

 

More seriously, eBikes do make cycling more social, but let’s not for a second pretend that is the reason somebody buys a Super Six with a built in 250w extra.

[Rigardt@Scott]

So the concept of slowing a little to ride with less fit mates is out the window? Now it’s “I can use what I want to keep up with Sauser”.

 

Lekker, I’ll order some EPO, Clen and HGH so that I can keep up with the Cycle lab A batch ????

 

More seriously, eBikes do make cycling more social, but let’s not for a second pretend that is the reason somebody buys a Super Six with a built in 250w extra.

Haha no, not at all. The gap between us is just so big that it's not a little bit of slowing down. He has an FTP of 450W (EDIT: I overstated, it's 415W to be exact), me 250. He weighs 80kg, I weigh 105kg.

 

But that's not actually why I think it was so great today. He landed at 12, earliest start we could do was 1:30PM, he could only ride till about 4:30PM - so it was more about the fact that we could do all the nice trails in a very short time span.

 

For me an ebike will be a full on downhill rig that I can shuttle on. I don't see it ever replacing my normal bike - but it is nice for those times you only have a short time - before or after work and doing DH type runs is your flavour....

Edited November 13, 2019 by Grease_Monkey

[Patchelicious]

Haha no, not at all. The gap between us is just so big that it's not a little bit of slowing down. He has an FTP of 450W, me 250. He weighs 80kg, I weigh 105kg.

 

But that's not actually why I think it was so great today. He landed at 12, earliest start we could do was 1:30PM, he could only ride till about 4:30PM - so it was more about the fact that we could do all the nice trails in a very short time span.

So the bakkie is not actually lifted, that’s just the suspension set with a little extra “pre-load” ????

[Rigardt@Scott]

On the road ebikes - I don't see the appeal there. But that's just me.