This is what's wrong with The Industry™
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Ya, this is just a little bit too BS. To ride a bike on flat-ish ground......with Eagle gearing.......not much of a fitness curve.
For mountain biking, the skill curve is WAAAYYYYYYY steeper than the fitness curve. And exacerbated by increased speed and weight of e-bikes.
I've said many times that it's a good thing I've been riding gnar my whole life, because I couldn't afford the learning curve. The fitness curve?? I started when I was 4, I think I could start at 64. 74. Whatever.
As point of evidence, I will point to my wife of a few years. In her early 50's, she decided to take up mountain biking to be sure I had no refuge.
I mean, to spend more time with me.
Sure, she rode a bike as kid and is pretty athletic, but never mountain biked. I built her a wicked cool purple and green show bike and I'll be damned if she didn't start riding it. About 3 or 4 months ago. And hasn't stopped. She's been to 3 lift accessed mtb parks and done blue trails. I have her wrapped in bubble wrap from head to toe and know this can't end well, but she claims she's having the time of her life.
Well. It's hard for me to argue.
My point is...fitness, on our local trails, she can go pretty slow. She can get out of breath and have to stop. She walks over a lot of roots and rocks. And hills. She's not going to be getting any QOM soon.
She seems ok with the fact that she needs to walk here and there. And maybe realizes it is a safety factor on it's own.
But pedaling is pure. No learning or fitness curve required.
NOW, if that person was using an E-bike to commute to work that would otherwise be too tough or time consuming, different deal.
Shall we start an uphill bike pusher's subforum? I just did that for over 1500 vertical meters. And I'm going to do it again tomorrow.
I donno. Part of me wants to argue more, and try and convince you that for people who don't love to suffer, and for whom going out and riding is a fun thing not a fitness thing, pedaling and strain can be the major obstacle to overcome, and that any exercise is better than no exercise. People get to enjoy a sport that was too hard for them physically (even if it was a mental thing that they could possibly overcome), and that's a good thing, and they'll get some exercise to boot. But I think I'm mostly over the e-bike argument honestly. I think if you can't see any positives from it you're being a bit myopic, but I also don't give a shit about them enough to spend more time trying and convince you either - it's not like I have one, or intend to get one within the next few years. I don't really have a stake in the game, other than thinking it's cool that more people are riding bicycles, from fatasses like my boss rekindling his joy of mountain biking to some older doctor who's realizing there is more to life than impressing other people with expensive shit, and getting out on the trails is actually fun on the right bike.
E bikes are far from "whats wrong with the industry" far as I'm concerned. It's 95% obnoxious marketing, 4% shitty engineers, and 1% other that's wrong with the industry.
E bikes are far from "whats wrong with the industry" far as I'm concerned. It's 95% obnoxious marketing, 4% shitty engineers, and 1% other that's wrong with the industry.
You clearly don't understand the passion and power of the anti-mt. bike lobby over here.
Well, their power trumps ignorance.
https://fasstmtb.com/products/flexx-mountain-bike-enduro
WTF. I'm scared just looking at those. They might be legit, but I'm still scared.
WTF. I'm scared just looking at those. They might be legit, but I'm still scared.
The old & slow crowd in moto enduro loves Flex bars, often paired with a steering damper. Too heavy and dorky for me.
"the older i get, the faster I was"
I dunno, I think that could go in the other thread. It's a pretty cool rendering.
sure, from a technical perspective that's a cool rendering. if someone actually showed up with that at the trails, that's a different story.
150 mm reach will not fly in this era, no sir
i do want one. the Penny Farthing goes down in history as a horribly wrong standard gone awry.
But it got better.
The different wheelsize is UCI approved now. Wait till 2019 and everyone will be on one.
I'm just not sure how I feel about teh 'Farthing.
I would not want one, and would probably kill myself trying to ride one.
But to satisfy curiosity - a parking lot test - if I can stay on - hell yeaz.
I do like the looks, in a post-revivalist cyberpunk kinda way....
Now, if you will excuse me, I think I need a lie down.
I would not want one, and would probably kill myself trying to ride one.
But to satisfy curiosity - a parking lot test - if I can stay on - hell yeaz.
I do like the looks, in a post-revivalist cyberpunk kinda way....
Now, if you will excuse me, I think I need a lie down.
BECAUSE, you heard it here first.
The new UCI ebike world championship is E Farthing!!!!!!
Who wouldn't pay money to watch that death match
Haha, if you buy some over-the-boot pants I think they'll come with those arthritis bars.
Ya!!. See!!. Now THAT is a race worth watching. Especially when they burst into flames when they crash (unfortunate side effect of batteries)
You.....young ass....long haired..............punk.
All you had to say was "present company excluded"..
or at least "I thought you'd be slower, you know, for your age"
no. You're still too young. You had to double down. Over the boot pants and arther itus bars
Age is gonna hit you hard, I just know it.
All true!
Fuck and that's on sale from the normal $405.
meh, not even mahogany :/
No it's not. You're thinking of some other country, maybe Switzerland, Luxemburg, Belgium, Netherlands or maybe some states in the US?
But after watching it I wish we had.
So you're starting a Kickstarter to off yourself?