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If you can, take a look at the Pietra trails. Also Isallo Extasy or Fast and Furious to Revenant is a fun, long downhill.

I did a lot of the trails in and around Ligure on a 2018 Evil Calling, 150f/130r I wouldn't overthink it, you can have fun there on almost anything.

CUBE High pivot enduro sighted on the german news site

Maybe my example was too anecdotal. There’s always been asshole riders in my area, regardless of the bike they’re on. New people getting into the sport that mailorder their bikes, and don’t learn the rules of the trail like the good old days. Anyone remember how the shops, magazines and IMBA used to preach “the rules of the trail” to new riders? Who’s doing it now? When I’m on my Ebike, I always try to say hello to the people I pass and make conversation. I’ve always been that way. After getting one, I’ve seen the staring and subjectively bad...

sorry, it's not ebike talk, but here are pit bits photos from leogang https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/pit-bits-2026-leogang-world-cup-dow…

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Finale, while an awesome riding destination, isn't too efficient in terms of the public uplifts available from down in town. Combining a single shuttle giving you 1000-1500m start to your ride depending on droppoff, with an ebike adding another 1000-1500m in pieces throughout the ride as you lap around the couple of areas that have multiple trails starting from the same/similar points, is probably quite an efficient way to do things if you are the sort of person unable or unwilling to actually ride your bike uphill yourself.

Name a more annoying sound than an American complaining about ebikes. Honestly, we've all heard your opinions before. We know you have them. I don't really like or want an ebike either but there are 12,000,000 whingy comments online about how you're too pure or too dedicated or too fit or too angry at unskilled riders and you're mad about it. We don't need any more. Talk about the market or discontinuation of normal bikes, sure, but complaining about being passed on a climb track or peoples ass cracks is tiring af at this point. You've been yelling about it...

because the numbers are wrong, it was 52.5% ebikes and 47.3% bicycles that were sold in 2025 in germany. in the mtb segment, it was 793500 emtb to 52500 mtb. source: https://www.ziv-zweirad.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Marktdaten-Fahrra…

Agreed, alot of ebikes in Finale compared to a few years back

you're just late to the party, that's all I'm just back from 2 weeks in finale ligure, i'd say on each shuttle at least half of the bikes on the trailer had a motor

If anyone doesnt understand this bike I dont blame him, neither did I. But after spending few days in a Sud Tyrol town, through which runs a long distance cycle path that connects Northern Italy and Germany my perception changed big time: I only used said cycle path to link different trails for few km at the time but I'd encounter hundreds of elder people riding such bikes. It was eye opening and I realized there exist bike markets I had no idea about...

"emtb can't give me suffering" Spoken like a man that has never run out of battery halfway into a group ride 😁

The German market isn't reflective of North America; and possibly other core MTB markets like Australia and New Zealand, however small they might be. The amount and quality of riding in North America, for example, fosters a completely different riding culture. Of course eMTB has a place here in North America, but we still have a large percentage or riders that want the analog experience. Squamish is a good example of a super core area for riders and, while eMTBs are seemingly everywhere there, my anecdotal perspective is that the split is still in favour of analog. My prediction is...

$89 to go to the bike shop and pick up your own bike?

This is a safe space. Thanks for sharing. (you weirdo)

Beyond emtbs the industry has run out of reasons to tell us we need a new bike so they're consolidating. Makes total business sense, especially after many companies got killed after misreading the market after the pandemic. If 32" wheels or the next big idea we complain about around these parts catches on they'll build out their lineup again. It took this long to appear to the buying public because companies plan 2-3+ years out.

you guys are just shocked at these racks! Am I missing something? It’s just a rack set for their existing bike? Great!l, fine! You fragile fundamentalists… They look like sick racks. Dudes in the ad roasted up to a hut, removed the racks, ripped some trails, drank some beers, slept and ripped home the next day? I’m cool with it, that’s exactly what I like to do! E-bikes are beyond perfect for that mission. The worst ebike is miles better than the best pedal bike. Figuring out how to get laps on laps on laps of my favorite trails was...