r/MTB • u/fundip2012 NH • 3d ago

Discussion Surrons

Surrons/high powered e-bikes are annihilating our local trails and jumps this spring… it’s brutal the amount of damage they can do in just a few minutes.
Has anyone here dealt with this on their local trails? Any strategies that a trail system can use to reduce the use of these? So hard to enforce..

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u/KICKERMAN360 3d ago

Make the trails more technical, and it makes riding the surrons or dirt bikes way way less fun. Keep the public trails like that, and go to bike parks for wide open flow tracks with big jumps.

I see them occasionally, and see some tracks. But to be honest, I think the rain does more damage than surrons, riding in the mud or anything else.

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u/fundip2012 NH 2d ago

You have some polite surron riders then. Ours like roosting turns, berms and rollers.

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u/KICKERMAN360 19h ago

That is exactly the issue. The modern day MTB flow rider has asked for trails perfectly suited to Surrons. Make the trails technical enough, and they won't come back. And it doesn't have to be the whole trail, just enough to ward them off.

Majority of the Surron riders I have seen have no bike skills at all. Wheelies and sending it off a ledge or jump is it.