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And people who want to get fit are riding road, gravel.
Given the trends to ebikes, gravel/road , trail centres, yes its changed, and thats ok
I’d heard that 19 out of 20 new mountain bike sales in Europe were ebikes now. Plus there’s been the move towards trail centres that’s been going on for years.
I can't find any figures to back that up but I can certainly believe that 19 out of 20 of ebike sales are mountain bikes 😉
Slightly different take from me but I wouldn't under-estimate the amount of people who ride (or run or whatever) without using Strava. I still track all my exercise with Strava and enjoy it but I joined a local triathlon club a while ago which has tonnes of members and it seems 50/50 really if any random person I chat to uses Strava or tracks their exercise at all which quite surprised me.
I’d heard that 19 out of 20 new mountain bike sales in Europe were ebikes now.
I think that came with the added condition of "mountain bikes over x amount RRP" which conveniently was high enough that your basic accoustic halfords/decathalon hardtail was excluded, but low enough that anything with a motor and battery that you would reasonably call an mtb was in.
Defo happy to be out of touch if asked what I do, the reply would now have to be "I ride an accoustic bike." Call me old fashioned, and I expect stones to be thrown in my direction, but I prefer the term bike.