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    Ebikes on forest service land?

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    Wife and I are heading south to ride this fall, and a lot of FS will not allow ebikes on the singletrack trails.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Shes on a trek Exe (light) and if we remove the battery is that OK?&nbsp; &nbsp;Yes it COULD be an ebike, but with battery removed its not able to do this?<br />
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    Thinking specifically for a shuttle at richfield UT, but also heading to hurricane area for a few weeks.<br />
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    Or does no one care/enforce anyways, and this is not a problen that needs solving?</p>


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    Pretty much everyone ignores the no ebike rule. I really only hear of it getting enforced at a few county/local parks like in Orange County.

    Shuttle services probably wont take you with an e-bike. Not sure how theyd play it with battery removed. Call ahead. Or you can self shuttle. Or ride up, isnt that what the moped is for???

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    Quote Originally Posted by evdog View Post
    Or ride up, isnt that what the moped is for???
    Seriously, especially for Richfield since there's a road to climb.

    Mopeds have become so prevalent in UT that they probably outnumber actual bikes by at least 2:1.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dantheman View Post

    Mopeds have become so prevalent in UT that they probably outnumber actual bikes by at least 2:1.
    On single track or just MUTs?
    Multi Use Trails and around town, by far more e-bikes, but I don't see much poaching of single track.

    Lifties won't load them here and I don't think a shuttle would either.

    Some people still care and will say something.

    I'm a myob trail user. If you don't have something nice to say, don't say it.

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    Personaly i do not look white enough to go down there and i donot have an acoustic mtn bike

    in any case research where you wana go pretty carefully and do not be laying down rooster tails in the loam

    we have crown lands and FS roads up here but isnt the forest privatley owned down there ?

    does one need a kevlar vest altho half a billion guns but nobody can shoot straight or we would not still be dealing with Trump ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by XXX-er View Post
    Personaly i do not look white enough to go down there
    Hahaha!

    Our new legal trails on BLM land are allowing ebikes. I think the trend is headed that way. They cannot deny the will of the people. With that said, the whole Amflow power thing is going to cause waves I think. Too much power is not good for the industry. Especially if you have guys going Up the Downs...or like last weekend the reverse happened here. 3 guys on eebs came down hootin and hollering the Up. I told the last two as a heads up. They thought they were on "sweetness" which is a super popular classic down in SC. They weren't even close. [emoji23]

    Demo state forest in SC does not allow ebikes, but I get passed by them every time I go.

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    Yeah I&#39;m not too sure about the amflow / bosch upgrade thing still they are just class1 Eabs but the timing & optics might be bad especialy right now when you can not click a news feed without reading about saurons which are electric motorcycles or illegally modifyed e-bikes , or about the class 2 or the class 3 all written by a scribe who hasnt a clue what they are writing about

    Eabs are gona be everywhere as people age the problem is more likely the people rididng them than the Eeb itself

    a chinesey looking spy with an illegal suite and trump would be giving me the free trip to equador in a Newyawk minute eh ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shredhead View Post
    On single track or just MUTs?
    Multi Use Trails and around town, by far more e-bikes, but I don't see much poaching of single track.

    Lifties won't load them here and I don't think a shuttle would either.

    Some people still care and will say something.

    I'm a myob trail user. If you don't have something nice to say, don't say it.
    Singletrack. Not even poaching necessarily, some of the city trail systems that have been developed allow Class 1 (although tons of poaching also happens). Not making a value judgement on mopeds, but they have become so prevalent here that if you do any hard-ish climb on a pedal bike there's better than even odds you'll be the only one without a motor.

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    Fuck 'em. Ride your ebike.

    Richfield, UT should be fine. You can also just ride your ebike up the dirt road and bomb down the DH trails.

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    Ebikes on forest service land?

    Reminds me of this poaching post I saw on Insta. Saurons of course lol

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMiPm...c4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dantheman View Post
    Singletrack. Not even poaching necessarily, some of the city trail systems that have been developed allow Class 1 (although tons of poaching also happens). Not making a value judgement on mopeds, but they have become so prevalent here that if you do any hard-ish climb on a pedal bike there's better than even odds you'll be the only one without a motor.
    Here also. I'm in the minority on an Amish bike. Most of our trails are illegal for any bike, so it doesn't really matter I guess. I'll be "that" guy soon enough on an eeb also. Although my plan is only to ride it with a few guys that have them and trail building which I'm most stoked for. It will be good as a recovery ride also. I'm in decent shape for an old phuck and I have several punchy rooty Ups yet to be cleaned, so Amish will be the primary ride.

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    seriously one can not throw rooster tails with an Eab and really there would be no difference weight wise between an acoustic rider with a few too many sixpacs and an Eaber weight wise so either ban all bikes or let them all be but really it sounds like there are just too many people so maybe trump had a good idea when he tried to takeover other countries ?

    we have some hiker types who are apin in the ass they are some really old women becuz they are so old the men are dead, a senior planner emeritus told me they need to wait for all those old people to die and then there can be more trails linking MTB/ hiking/ XC skiing , the thing is they are so old they can&#39;t do any thing with their trails so we wait for them to die
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    I mean, if there's no battery, I'd assume there'd be no problem.
    No longer stuck.

    Quote Originally Posted by stuckathuntermtn View Post
    Just an uneducated guess.

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    I think i would probably still be deported to Equador so no thanks eh
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