E-bike coverage grumble – Page 2 – Bike Forum – Singletrack World Magazine Forum

ChipkoAndolan · 2016-12-07T08:30:06Z

I'm not interested in e bikes. I'm not wholly anti e-bikes, I can understand how they might be liberating for people with limited mobility. I am anti e-bike for regular mountain biking, by which I mean for riders with no mobility problems who see an electronically assisted bike as a shortcut to subvert the effort normally required to get up a hill. I have two reasons for being anti the 'lazy' e-biker: 1) Electronic assistance means extra torque. Extra torque means extra erosion, and trail erosion is bad 2) Lazy riders are probably lazy in other aspects of their riding, like maintaining our trails I am annoyed that a mag which I subscribe to is increasing e-bike coverage. I originally subscribed to Singletrack because I identified with the riders in the articles and found the reviews relevant to the way I ride. As e-bike coverage increases that relevance decreases, along with my willingness to pay for a subscription. The mountain biking industry feels bloated, clutching at innovations to broaden its market. There's a conflict at hand; many of us ride to experience solitude in the few patches of woodlands and hillsides near our homes, in doing so we've fostered an industry to support our riding, but all industries need to expand and ours does that by appealing to more people. More people means more erosion and less solitude. This might seem rash, but I'm considering cancelling my subscription in the hope that doing so might stem the flow of e-bike promotion. Does anyone else feel the same?

tomhoward

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*waves*

Posted : 08/12/2016 8:50 am

MrSalmon

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E-bikes are coming and that's the way it is. STW etc. can just carry on and pretend that they don't exist, or acknowledge them in their content (to predictable moaning).

I'd have thought ignoring them isn't really a sensible option for an outfit that wants to, you know, stay in business, and would we really want them to anyway?

Posted : 08/12/2016 10:22 am

BadlyWiredDog

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WTF, we voted against e-bikes and all the other associated euro-shite, what are they still doing in the mag?

Posted : 08/12/2016 10:27 am

eddiebaby

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Read the new mag in bed this morning. [b]2[/b] ads for e-bikes. My world has collapsed.

🙂

Posted : 08/12/2016 12:30 pm

buckster

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@eddiebaby, if they had eBikes on the Mont Blanc trip they might have made it... :-0

Posted : 08/12/2016 12:39 pm

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