Do eBikes belong on the mountain?

[Iwan Kemp]

 

[Eldron]

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ1YVYmkI4I

Motorboat ????

 

That does look like tons of fun though!

[IH8MUD]

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[Jewbacca]

Motorboat

 

That does look like tons of fun though!

... KittyCat......

[pista]

TransCape organisers ASG Events have announced that they are to allow e-bikes in the UCI-rated event “as long as they do not interfere with the racing”.
 

http://www.mbr.co.uk/news/event_news/transcape-368308

[DNC]

I love e-bikers!

Especially when they pass me at speed on trails or jeep track, I shout the question 'fat or lazy?'

Gets them every time! So funny????.

If you lucky, it will stop and try justify the bike!

[Eldron]

TransCape organisers ASG Events have announced that they are to allow e-bikes in the UCI-rated event “as long as they do not interfere with the racing”.

 

http://www.mbr.co.uk/news/event_news/transcape-368308

I swear I'm going to but a KTM motocross ebike and rip up every trail I can find to stop races adding this rule. Drives me batty.

[pista]

I swear I'm going to but a KTM motocross ebike and rip up every trail I can find to stop races adding this rule. Drives me batty.

Just as long as it  has pedals.

 

[Eldron]

Just as long as it  has pedals.

 

450w+ emotorbikes are pretty common now. Soon we'll start measuring them in kW and that will be the end of emotorbikes in races.

 

Cmon you crazy scientists - make it happen!!

[ChrisF]

450w+ emotorbikes are pretty common now. Soon we'll start measuring them in kW and that will be the end of emotorbikes in races.

 

Cmon you crazy scientists - make it happen!!

Uhm .... have a look at the "e" class at Isle of Man .....

 

WAY past "kW" ..... e-bikes way faster than stock-super-bikes !!

[Eldron]

Uhm .... have a look at the "e" class at Isle of Man .....

 

WAY past "kW" ..... e-bikes way faster than stock-super-bikes !!

Well sure but they don't have pedals right?

[ChrisF]

Well sure but they don't have pedals right?

 

jy gaan VINNIG moet pedal om by te bly ...       

[Eldron]

jy gaan VINNIG moet pedal om by te bly ...       

 

Siemens have a prototype from a few years back claiming 5kw/kg!

 

https://newatlas.com/siemens-world-record-electric-motor-aircraft/37048/

[Hairy]

e-bikes are sooooo 1897

 

 

[Janine Oosthuizen]

It's a phase every couch potato is going through. None of them really enjoy being out there. Once a potato, always a potato. But to old folk who's undergone them knee and hip replacements... Kudo's to you! Smash those trials! Come and enjoy it with the rest of us.

[ChrisF]

It's a phase every couch potato is going through. None of them really enjoy being out there. Once a potato, always a potato. But to old folk who's undergone them knee and hip replacements... Kudo's to you! Smash those trials! Come and enjoy it with the rest of us.

 

Welcome Janine !

 

 

At least SOME people DO get of the couch-potato stage ... not many, but some do.  I spent some 20+ years on the couch .... back in the saddle for almost two years now. 

 

Thankfully I can still climb the hills under my own steam - as long as it is not too steep or too long ...    

 

 

I can see myself buying an ebike at some point ... for now I want to see just how far my knees can still get me.