Yes. No lengthy downhills, but plenty of twisting singletrack that would be stimulating to ride at around 15.5mph, up, down, or along-hill.
Sotto voce 😋
Ebikes at sherwood pines, really, its flat as a flat thing. I imagine they are the same heffers that are queuing outside MacDonalds to get their greasy fix.
Find a lot of the time the ebikes have given excessive speed to inexperienced riders, who have no idea that its unacceptable to force their way past.
The plonker today with a bell was the best one, then 3 of his mates firing past, 20ft further on and the trail widens to a doubletrack.
I went out on my ebike today. I ran over three squirrels, two dogs, kicked over a small child and knocked off six people on their old fashioned bikes.
Ebikes at sherwood pines, really, its flat as a flat thing.
Flat=constant pedalling. Hilly means you can stop pedalling on the downs.
I went out on my ebike today. I ran over three squirrels, two dogs, kicked over a small child and knocked off six people on their old fashioned bikes.
Just 1 baby robin would of been enough
Lots of cheap finance deals around. People aren’t going on holiday or to the pub.
Specialized turbo levo = £150 per month, that's a night out for a lot people.
Sooner the pubs and shopping centres are open and cheap flights to Benidorm resume the better
Traffic (and associated dick head behavior) round my way dropped off considerably in July(?) when things opened up a bit.
The most worrying thing about them far and above any tyre buzzing is the prevalence of people saying 'clockwork' or 'analogue' bikes.
Please stop it. Please, I implore you, stop it now before you're beyond saving.
They were distinguishable from the off by the presence of the letter 'E'. 😂
“ The most worrying thing about them far and above any tyre buzzing is the prevalence of people saying ‘clockwork’ or ‘analogue’ bikes.”
You forget ACOUSTIC. Aaaaaaarrrgggghh!!!
Indeed 😂
singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/a-new-low-2/page/3/#post-11753551
I just love this place for the closed minds on what sort of people do many things, once applied to ebikes it makes some great reading. I'm not fat or overweight but do eat mcdonalds once a week and I love the sausage rolls served in the cafe at pines, they're proper yummy 🙂
I've only been riding a mtb 3-4 years now but even on downhill sections and cornering bits I manage to match speeds of much more experienced riders on normal bikes without falling off, it must be a miracle I can do this on a 25kg bike when we all know 1/2 kg makes such a difference to a cycle.
I guess it sits better that you think ebike riders are talentless fatties, in the same vein I could say all normal bike riders are poor people and tbh should let us that can afford ebikes have the trails to ourselves then we wouldn't be tripping over them, what bell would you recommend so I can let the poor folk know I'm coming through much faster than them ?, thanks
Couchy, just **** off with your estupidity. Anyone with half a brain can see that a heavier full-sus will be at no disadvantage downhill. And there are competitive MTBers who’ve only been riding 3-4 years, so that’s more than enough time to become highly skilled.
I love my ebike but I know that hassling non-e MTBers by wanting to overtake them is a bad idea for all of us.
The fact is that on average eMTBers are fatter than other MTBers. You might not be, I know I’m not. But that doesn’t stop the stereotype from being broadly true. Calling non-e MTBers poor just makes you sound like a ****.
I went out on my ebike today. I ran over three squirrels, two dogs, kicked over a small child and knocked off six people on their old fashioned bikes.
Guns don't kill people, wappers do... (cba finishing the logic on this one)
I’m always delighted to see the bottom bracket lump when someone charges past me on a climb, because it means that I wasn’t just ground into the dirt by a non-powered rider!
exactly this - a few occasional and entirely pleasant interactions on uphill tracks and I'll say something like "please tell me that's turned on...' as I like to share my slightly overbearing humour wherever I go.
estupidity
Brilliant.
@Couchy, missed the sarcasm tags off
1.I guess it sits better that you think ebike riders are talentless fatties
2. in the same vein I could say all normal bike riders are poor people
3. tbh should let us that can afford ebikes have the trails to ourselves
4. then we wouldn’t be tripping over them, what bell would you recommend so I can let the poor folk know I’m coming through much faster than them ?, thanks
1. Mostly, see my previous point about giving inexperienced riders 500w to control
2. I suppose 7k buys you a budget moped
3. Watch out for the braking bumps appearing after corners
4. I'll make sure I give you enough space on the downhills so I dont trip over you
I’ve caught folk before and been told to **** off when asking politely to pass.
Always two sides to that, pick your passing place and announce it, don't just expect folk to pull over and stop.
Right, back to finding where I can get a Trek Rail 9 or when the new Levo/Kenevo SL is being launched.
Reading through this it makes me wonder how many of the bad mannered ebikers on here don't own them but have actually hired them for the day so have very limited experience of them and/or trail etiquette?
LOL I won't be in your way on the downhills, tbh I'm not in the way of any normal bike at any point but I guess some of the fat ebike riders are. I might not change my ride type tomorrow and claim a few 'normal' bike KOMS, I can have 2 sausage rolls then 🙂 🙂
