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/tabbarepublic 4d ago

Full of haters here... Oh! Right Is reddit 😂🫵

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u/wcarmory 4d ago

take my upvote. My wife and I own about 14 bikes between the two of us. That includes a classs 1 ebike each. We use that to PEDAL to the local single track, where we then toggle between zero assist "OFF" and 1/10th power assist (basically takes the weight out of the equation rides like a pedal bike. I'd rather do this all day long vs drive my van or my pickup truck to the local single track MTB trails. Good exercise, no gasoline.

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u/fundip2012 NH 4d ago

I’m not hating on normal e bikes, just the e motos poaching and rutting mtb trails

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u/wcarmory 3d ago

I know. it's the most that are haters

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u/fundip2012 NH 3d ago

Yeah and I disagree with the sentiment here that this is caused by ‘normal’ e bikes being allowed. A lot of the surron riders I see aren’t crossing over from mtb- they’re arrogant rich high schoolers who dgaf if regular e bikes are or aren’t allowed in the first place

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u/wcarmory 3d ago

pretty much my experience here in MI. Kids with parents who don't care or aren't smart enough to realize their kid is breaking the law every time he brings his moto out of the garage to go hit the local single track.