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i think it is pretty easy to differntiate between a pedal powered bike and a full motor driven bike. I don't think they will police at all but respectfully do not agree that it will be too difficult for ht he man to differentiate.

We have plans to test a Push Nine One this summer. I'm looking forward to it!

Is that a tech rumor? Found it pretty sick ( Mighty Argo gondola in Idaho Springs).

June 24th They are very good if you want the ultimate enduro/ebike smash down steep stuff fork.

I get it and simultaneously want a class 1 e-mtb still yet. Every time I get to borrow one and ride it I am simultaneously reminded that being able to dart uphill as fast as you can is absolutely not normal mtb activity. I also can admit that I want one so I can do 20 mile loops after work in the span of 2 hrs. I've had one head on and almost had several other head on collisions with emtbs coming up hill fast enough to be roosting berms uphill. The types of "bikes" above would be hard to...

Exactly. E-bikes give e-motos a "justification" to fokk around on trail. Both kinds of toys will always end up getting access for ALL wheels shut down. But reading the comments, I see the pattern that every person commenting here has that one special exception to do wrong by all because of their circumstance. Every post I read is a "I/We need/want..." and then they break laws, tresspass & find their own little grey area. History says if it has 2 wheels and causes problems...remove 2 wheels from the area. Here's my take on e-bikes & e-motos. They should be separate...

I don’t see the hate for responsible use but that’s not what happens a lot. Having some dude run up on you at 20mph on a climb trying to push past you because they are a holes deserves all the hate. Look at skypark they had to add signs all over place because there were problems and even added a climb for e-bikes but most refuse to use it because it’s harder and eats up battery. There are plenty of reasons to hate even the class 1 but it’s not the bike it’s the people who ride them.

One of the guys in the pic below threatened to shoot a cyclist few weeks back. You guys wanted Pandora's Box opened. I grew up gaining permission from other land owners to ride with their kids on bicycles then motos. Anywhere we took a bike, a moto poached & did not care if we got kicked out. Anywhere we were permitted to ride 2 wheels (usually just swapping out at each others property if we each had a bike), motos would poach & not care. E-bikes are just the bastard child of both categories. Making them dead silent thanks to...

June 7, 2032

Can we move this to the suspension thread please

Other random bits and bobs from yesterday: 1. Danny Hart-esque custom hub end cap to deal with brake/wheel/frame flex on an unknown to me Canyon junior men’s bike. 2. Close ups of Jordan Williams brakes on his ebike as he and Loic were track scouting dueing Q2. Probably nothing new to see here, but prove me wrong. I didn’t peel the tape off the lever but I did think about it. 3. The craziest cassette you’ll ever see on Benoit Colanges’ bike. Also, the whole Scott team is on Rimpact chain dampers, which was interesting.

I'm at Leogang this weekend and wanted to get a sense of how widely pedal kickback devices have been adopted by World Cuppers, along with all the other wild accessories like TMD's/shakeweights, electronics, gearboxes, and more. So out of curiosity and as a service to my fellow nerds, I stood at the top of Q1 today and counted all the devices I could. Note that certain devices were almost certainly undercounted, like shakeweights, added mass, and fancy chainring devices like Ochain or Rimpact (drivetrains were facing away from me in the starting lineup). There were 20 bikes total where I...

I put the Purgatory in the same class as something like a Forekaster or Aggressor. I ran one in a super pedally enduro combined with a Butcher front where rolling resistance was very important and it was great, but it came off immediately after. It's like a mini Butcher with fast rolling, short knobs great for hardpack. Not in the same league as DHR2 or even Eliminator for a rear tire. It's a trail tire, and also pretty fine for a downcountry front tire. I think it would rock in the desert.