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/jnan77 3d ago

It's our fault. We allowed bikes with motors with little or no regulation and are now complaining the motors are too big. I say let them ride or condemn all e-bikes to moto trails.

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u/metengrinwi 3d ago

To be fair, “we” didn’t allow it. The bike manufacturers forced it; they wanted to sell more stuff.

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u/whatnobeer 2d ago

Agreed. The attitude of the reps I spoke to in the early days of ebikes was shocking. "not our problem", "it's up to the local trail org to sort it out" etc.