BOOOOOO E-BIKES
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Out of interest can you quantify what "end of life" actually means to you?
To me end of life means a scrapper. And if (like me) you tend to buy 10+ yrs old cars (with circa 100000miles) until they're so uneconomical to keep running they need to be scrapped there's no way on earth you're going to pony up tens of thousands of pounds for a modern electric replacement.
rust tends to be what kills cars here. mine is a 2013. The rust is beginning to take hold. If I had to venture a guess, it has another 4-5 years in it? I'm planning to scrap it when cost of repairs are greater than cost of new car payments, or when it won't pass the safety tests anymore.
That's not really a thing around here, as dirt bikes are so far off the map they never come up in land use conversations anymore, although I agree they should. Frankly some of the trail networks that make the most sense for e-bike use within ~100 miles of here are OHV parks like Mammoth Bar and Rock Creek/Georgetown.
sure....
Debate erupts over off-road vehicle access in Bay Area park
The 87,000-acre park is at the center of a controversy surrounding increased access to...
That's the east side of the park they're looking at, not the bike stuff just fyi. Part of allowing vehicles in that bit would include some shuttle routes which might be cool.
The problem with all those places you listed is that even dedicated dirtbike spots get over-run/gentrified by mountainbikers once they find them. That damn shuttle company running bike shuttles on rock creek..... Downieville same story. There are so few legit dirtbike spots that once the shuttle and/or ebike scene shows up everyone starts bitching about the dirtbikes and causing problems. There needs to be tons more of both if they're going to call ebikes motorized whatevers
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Same here. I live near the coast and our winter road treatments absolutely fuck cars with rust.. Current car's a 07 with a bit of welding combating the worst of its rust. Next major issue it'll be scrap.
I ride further each year than I drive but still need a vehicle.
I had vans previously... But yeah. Laugh at the guy old enough to remember yo mom as hot
Vans, wagons and utes FTW. I've never owned a 4-wheeled vehicle that required disassembling the bike to put in. Its always been my one stipulation - I know its a simple task but I hate pulling the bike apart every time.
Yeah. I'm the same. My car will take 2 full bikes without disassembling anything with 2 full sized passenger seats still up. Good chance I'll go back to a van next. Prices are crazy tho.
Every single e-biker in Teton Valley that I know (which is most/all of them) completely support the local off-road alliance, as there are 400+ miles of motorized trail in the Big Holes, and they are only rideable due to the efforts (and traffic) of the motos. ATV’s and SxS’ides can just fuck off! 
I apologize for calling you names @kidwoo
It's not names (you didn't didn't actually call me anything) it's a lack of the ability to just say "WTF are you talking about" and try to understand where I might be coming from.
I get called names all the time but I only get pissed when people who should know better jump to assumptions.
I can blow off idiots but you're not that. I can promise you I harbor no "ebike hate" beyond the marketing behind the abusrdly expensive ones, and the dumb rules we have here that cause some really odd and annoying unintended consequences.
I rode a bit of that on an amish bike with joetron a few years ago. That area is rad, I'd love to see that much more mileage on a dirtbike.
We saw some grizzly tracks and got all shaky about sightlines the rest of the day
I’m lacking in more abilities than just that! Base model human being.
I should have asked for an explanation and I don’t think less of you. Apologies!
will you promise to keep jeff brines away from me?
big holes idaho side I'm down. I want nothing to do with jackson and I can promise you, you want nothing to do with me in Jackson
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As you know, I’m only on the Dark Side until I can escape.
Brines?
We probably can’t escape him.
Bring all of your two wheeled conveyances.
Brines?
We probably can’t escape him.
Bring all of your two wheeled conveyances.
I'm out
You know who I'm talking about right? He used to post here.
Regardless I don't have to come there. I'll see you in CO remember? I'll be the guy revving a two stroke behind you all day as you pedal your ebike uphill on max boost and kill the battery.....
You know. As friends do.
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Oh, yeah, I know Brines, but we don’t interact much. He’s never given me any grief.
technical trails turned flow track, in the land without mountains?I think Switzerland...at least the flag looks like it.
Could be?
He will catch you, he always does
Some have not that much elevation but ride their bikes, others have high mountains but need to ride moppeds to get up them.
I have a flawless track record I fully intend on maintaining.
Some have not that much elevation but ride their bikes, others have high mountains but need to ride moppeds to get up them.
lol @ the land of the free
big and small government + overregulation makes it hard for american ebikers. some european lady tries to change that but things are unnecessarily hard
our laws are based on completely unrealistic propagandized hatred of motors among the smug anywhere outdoors, the same people who consume just as much or more, just under some bs environmental cover
anything you might be familiar with?
Everyone spent so much time hating motors, they weren't prepared for motors designed to make someone feel like they were riding a bike, a now major attractant to the same smug pricksle /me, 2 weeks ago in switzerland (italian part). enjoying a nice cappucino right by the lake inbetween my ebike runs while i travelled there by swiss high speed train, powered by green energy
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swiss lifestyle 4tw
people ride ebikes everywhere they ride non ebikes. The laws are stupid but no one really gives a shit
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which was always the real goal of things like electric motors (IE remote combustion vehicles) and most of the so called renewable power sources, so it sounds like it's working
However no individual's singular impact is never going to amount to squat. Read up on america's recycling scams perpetrated 100% by the plastic manufacturing industry who convinced an entire nation that it was on them to be responsible, if you haven't. A lot the 'green energy' industry is the same, mostly just to sell something while still being the same cheap labor industrialists that capitalism always fosters.
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