E-bikes are a thing

Ebikes??

  • I have never ridden one

    Votes: 100 41.3%

  • I have ridden one for over an hour on a trail and I’ll never buy one

    Votes: 9 3.7%

  • I have ridden one in a trail for over an hr and I am considering one

    Votes: 19 7.9%

  • I’ll never give up my analog bike but I’ll still get an ebike

    Votes: 35 14.5%

  • Did he just say analog bike?

    Votes: 35 14.5%

  • My knees are failing and an ebike in inevitable

    Votes: 17 7.0%

  • My next bike will certainly be an ebike.

    Votes: 19 7.9%

  • I’ll never own an ebike, even when I’m 90

    Votes: 25 10.3%

  • Ebikes cause more trail damage than analog bikes

    Votes: 8 3.3%

  • Ebikes have no more trail impact than a traditional bike.

    Votes: 63 26.0%

  • I hate anyone on an ebike

    Votes: 7 2.9%

  • Anyone on a bike is a friend of mine, ebike or not

    Votes: 91 37.6%

  • I’ve been seeing ebikes in the woods regularly

    Votes: 52 21.5%

  • I’ve never seen an ebike on the trail

    Votes: 15 6.2%

  • It's called an Acoustic bike

    Votes: 14 5.8%

  • “I may consider one after my body is all used up and broken"

    Votes: 64 26.4%

  • I already own an off-road Ebike

    Votes: 34 14.0%

  • I have no interest in an e-bike

    Votes: 13 5.4%

  • Arguing against ebikes is kerfuffle

    Votes: 14 5.8%

  • I like Matty no matter what he rides

    Votes: 17 7.0%
  • Total voters
    242
Summit Surron gang.

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Traffic? How about 45mph down the sidewalk instead?

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Bike N Gear said:
Honestly the first group I've seen wearing helmets. Was in Abury and saw about 25 together with not one helmet. None off them really needed a front wheel either.
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Yeah. These kids got blocks. The second 2 are also DH Bros and post all kinds of nutty Creek vids doing 360s and shit off the big drop. Gonna be sad when they go to jail for killing someone in town. I fill up their tires and let them use our tools to stay on their good side so I won’t get taken out.
 
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Steve Vai said:
Yeah. These kids got blocks. The second 2 are also DH Bros and post all kinds of nutty Creek vids doing 360s and shit off the big drop. Gonna be sad when they go to jail for killing someone in town. I fill up their tires and let them use our tools to stay on their good side so I won’t get taken out.
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I think the truth is that you secretly want to be one of these kids. (I know I do 😂.)
If these electric bikes were around when I was a kid, I would have definitely killed myself …spectacularly.
 
a.s. said:
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I think the truth is that you secretly want to be one of these kids. (I know I do 😂.)
If these electric bikes were around when I was a kid, I would have definitely killed myself …spectacularly.
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I’ve been looking at Adventure Motorcycles but my wife won’t let me buy one. So I might have to get a Surron 😂
 
Steve Vai said:
Yeah. These kids got blocks. The second 2 are also DH Bros and post all kinds of nutty Creek vids doing 360s and shit off the big drop. Gonna be sad when they go to jail for killing someone in town. I fill up their tires and let them use our tools to stay on their good side so I won’t get taken out.
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Santapez said:
How can they not be? I shudder when I see kids on electric scooters with no helmets, even worse the e-bikes at even faster speeds.

It doesn't take much to all of a sudden to have your skull bouncing off the asphalt.
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What's worse are NYC parents commuting on e-scooters with their kid standing in front of them, neither have helmets. A few kids die or are badly injured every year when someone opens a door or something similar. NYC is such a wild West with any kind of unplated motos. There are more unregistered ones out there this legal.
 
a.s. said:
I think the truth is that you secretly want to be one of these kids. (I know I do 😂.)
If these electric bikes were around when I was a kid, I would have definitely killed myself …spectacularly.
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Side note: my 12 yr old son has been asking us for a Surron for a few years. No f’ing way. I explain how dangerous they are to ride on the streets. Then I go and buy him a park bike and smile as he hits sketchy 15’ drops. At least I know he won’t get killed by some moron driving a minivan, watching Instagram on their phone.
 
a.s. said:
Side note: my 12 yr old son has been asking us for a Surron for a few years. No f’ing way. I explain how dangerous they are to ride on the streets. Then I go and buy him a park bike and smile as he hits sketchy 15’ drops. At least I know he won’t get killed by some moron driving a minivan, watching Instagram on their phone.
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Or kill a pedestrian trying to show off in front of chicks.
 
In Westwood there are about 20 e dirt bike riders on the roads…. All under 18…. And of course none of them are riding in gear, most times their helmets hanging on the handle bars.
 
Santapez said:
How can they not be? I shudder when I see kids on electric scooters with no helmets, even worse the e-bikes at even faster speeds.

It doesn't take much to all of a sudden to have your skull bouncing off the asphalt.
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At the end of July, I passed the minutes old Ebike accident scene on Rt. 28 in front of the train station. Bike was one of those mini motorcycles with 20" fat tires. There are quite a few kids on them in town. More than half without helmets.

The bike was half under the driver's side behind the front wheel of an SUV pulling out of a side street for a left turn. The 14 year old was taken to Morristown Memorial with a head injury.
 
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