My personal anticipatory frustration with e-MTBs is there is a certain, albeit basic and low, level of knowledge required to end up on certain trails __ miles in. This "filter" correlates with a certain quality of person -- one who tends to care for their surroundings, knows basics of navigation (at least until their GPS stops working), and has some general outdoor sensibility (again, the bar is fairly low here.). This compares with the ATV crowd, which more generally reflects the saying that the benefit of a 4x4 is you get stuck farther out. What happens to the person who doesn't know they can walk their e-MTB whose battery stops working 10 miles out, or who does know but hasn't the fitness required to do more than pedal slightly. Suddenly those mountains that took no effort to get into have a lot of vertical that wasn't earned. There is something to earning getting to certain places.
With abandon, Patrick On Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 12:53:44 AM UTC-6, Joe Bernard wrote: > > Grant mentioned ebikes again on the BLAHG, and even made a faint reference > to a possible future where they would sell one. I know it's not his thing, > but he was discussing it in reference to a cycling industry gradually > accepting that ebikes are here to stay. > > So my question. If Rivendell put some bikes together with the latest > mid-drive motors with 5 levels of pedal-assist available, would you buy > one? We're talking about pedal bikes that can be ridden with low or no > assist, not 'hit the throttle and hang on' like a scooter. I think a kitted > Clem or Hunqapillar would be fun, plus useful as commuters. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
