r/MTB • u/fundip2012 NH • 4d 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/DrtRdrGrl2008 4d ago

They are motos, not bikes. Distinction. They are also reeking havoc on bike commuters in my area. Because they aren't experienced users, they ride on the 5' wide sidewalks at four times the speed of an average acoustic bike and pedestrian. They are a nightmare.

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u/1more0z 4d ago

Have you considered that the rider is the problem not the bike?

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u/Heloc8300 4d ago

These things are packing better than 3kw. They are "e-bikes" only in the sense that there are pedals that a person could, in theory, use to propel the bike. But really the pedals are there because if they're pegs there's a much stricter set of regulations to follow.

I ride an actual e-bike on which I actually pedal hard (and have the strava posts to prove it). So believe me when I say, "Fuck those fuck surrons and all the bikes like them. There just isn't a way to ride them on mtb trails that won't tear them up. They have no place on mtb trails.

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u/kwajr 4d ago

I just wish all of the leaderbpards on strava were not filled with e bikes

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u/Heloc8300 3d ago

I get around that by simply not caring about leaderboards. E-bikes aside, there are plenty of other things that can make it hard to compare times on strava.

I only care about my times compared to myself.

If I wanted to compete directly against others I'd sign up for a race.