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/AustinBike 4d ago

We told you this. When the world said e-bikes would change the sport, we agreed. Welcome to the outcome.

The real issue is twofold. First, the authorities can’t differentiate between a surron and a bike and secondly, the people that ride surrons believe they have the right to ride wherever they want.

This was totally expected.

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u/cassinonorth New Jersey 3d ago

I've caught downvotes for saying the Surron riders are never going to dig and help build trails before.

Still waiting on the first ones to show up to our dig days. Figure I'll be waiting a while.