"E mtn bikes r us" (rock n road) boycott?

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StrandLeper said:
So, do I pull my order from the Path? Probably bad form ... but I will talk with the boys and girls there and let them know that they perhaps have just built me my last bike...
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The problem is they're a Giant dealer, which means they sell Giant bikes. All Giant bikes. I'm pretty sure they don't have much choice under their agreement with Giant.

I'm certainly not selling my XTC just because they also make ebikes.
 
Mikie said:
Guys!
Lets not rehash this.
Dusty I get your feelings about eBike users. Let keep ourselves a class act and not attack people. I'm gonna close these threads if we can't stay civil fellers. :)
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Thanks. I just don't want my crowded local trails closed after some tea bag rich guy runs over an old lady hiker who couldn't hear the bike coming up at high speed. Cheers
 
Let the OC Parks system know your safety concerns with the use of ebikes on our local trails. (i.e. Peters Canyon)
If it's brought to their attention for safety, they will recognize your petition. The end result will be less availability of trails to ride, thus less of a market demand.
I have sent correspondence to the OC Parks rangers and David Whiting of the OC Register. David is an avid outdoors-man and recognizes the issues ebikes can pose on the trail.
 
I love you @Mikie!
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H2oChick said:
Let the OC Parks system know your safety concerns with the use of ebikes on our local trails. (i.e. Peters Canyon)
If it's brought to their attention for safety, they will recognize your petition. The end result will be less availability of trails to ride, thus less of a market demand.
I have sent correspondence to the OC Parks rangers and David Whiting of the OC Register. David is an avid outdoors-man and recognizes the issues ebikes can pose on the trail.
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Oc parks didn't have the resources to enforce a simple rain closure last weekend.
 
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mtnbikej said:
Soooooooo.....did we scare Neal away?
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I don't think he was real. He was just a poorly disguised Internet troll who found this site while doing searches on his next e-bike purchase, and decided to come troll the forums. For all I know, he could have a financial stake in selling e-bikes somewhere, and is cutting and pasting the same legaleze on any critical speech he finds out there - so that anyone who comes to this site to read about e-bikes sees his comment. Note I am not attacking the PERSON - just the idea.

It's like going to a PETA forum and posting that it is legal for SeaWorld to keep orcas in captivity. Sure it might be true, but it isn't going to win you a lot of Internet friends :)
 
The last thing I want to do is squash free speech, however common sense needs to prevail.
The majority of members here are not pro eBike. If that offends anyone then maybe it would behoove them to find another Forum that is "pro eBikes" to discuss that subject on. Then jump back over here to talk about mountain bikes.

I can tell you that I have made the decision that if folks want to argue over eBikes and it happened here again, I'm going to delete the Threads.
We did our best to discuss them, it did not make any movement on either side. Case closed.
If folks want to keep driving the issue then they too will be deleted. It's not worth the disruption to the community.
We have too many things going "right" here to ruin it now...
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Mikie said:
The last thing I want to do is squash free speech, however common sense needs to prevail.
The majority of members here are not pro eBike. If that offends anyone then maybe it would behoove them to find another Forum that is "pro eBikes" to discuss that subject on. Then jump back over here to talk about mountain bikes.

I can tell you that I have made the decision that if folks want to argue over eBikes and it happened here again, I'm going to delete the Threads.
We did our best to discuss them, it did not make any movement on either side. Case closed.
If folks want to keep driving the issue then they too will be deleted. It's not worth the disruption to the community.
We have too many things going "right" here to ruin it now...
:thumbsup::)
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Yay !!!!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
H2oChick said:
Let the OC Parks system know your safety concerns with the use of ebikes on our local trails. (i.e. Peters Canyon)
If it's brought to their attention for safety, they will recognize your petition. The end result will be less availability of trails to ride, thus less of a market demand.
I have sent correspondence to the OC Parks rangers and David Whiting of the OC Register. David is an avid outdoors-man and recognizes the issues ebikes can pose on the trail.
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This could back fire on us big time.

When Kitesurfing was new (2002) windsurfers tried to protect "their turf", and complained about the safety of Kites to the guys who run Bolsa Chica state beach.
The end result was a total ban of Kitesurfing and Windsurfing from that beach.
 
HBkites said:
This could back fire on us big time.

When Kitesurfing was new (2002) windsurfers tried to protect "their turf", and complained about the safety of Kites to the guys who run Bolsa Chica state beach.
The end result was a total ban of Kitesurfing and Windsurfing from that beach.
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Not totally true....I spent a while a few weeks back talking to the Ranger at the Oaks. They are still in the process of making their own decision....but that will be weighted by what how the users feel about it. On top of that, he sees a lot of the same issues we see. He was out demo'ing an e-moto that day.
 
BonsaiNut said:
Did you know that a new e-bike is in development that uses Tesla's self-driving technology? The theory is that you will be able to go for a bike ride without getting out of bed. :)
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Now you did it! Discussing secret and proprietary information about in-development products...Tesla's going to be on you like the record industry on a 13 year old copying a cd.

@Mikie
>>Lets not rehash this.<<
mmmm....y0u wrote hash......arrrggggg.....corned beef hash.......

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BonsaiNut said:
I don't think he was real. He was just a poorly disguised Internet troll who found this site while doing searches on his next e-bike purchase, and decided to come troll the forums. For all I know, he could have a financial stake in selling e-bikes somewhere, and is cutting and pasting the same legaleze on any critical speech he finds out there - so that anyone who comes to this site to read about e-bikes sees his comment. Note I am not attacking the PERSON - just the idea.

It's like going to a PETA forum and posting that it is legal for SeaWorld to keep orcas in captivity. Sure it might be true, but it isn't going to win you a lot of Internet friends :)
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Exactly what happened with Trump.
 
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