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I suppose. Looks like the rules should be placed around the manufacturers as much as anything else. The question I suppose is when does a bike become a scooter? Pedals?
When I was up in the lakes at Grizedale Forest the other week they rented out pretty swish E-mountain bikes. For a "non cycling" family to be able to rent a bike, put the little ones in a trailer and potter up to the top of a pretty big hill for some crazy beautiful views and fun descent, I thought they looked fantastic.
Wouldn't want to ban them as I do think they make the sport more accessible to a lot and can't yet see the point where they'd become a massive PITA. Perhaps wishful thinking from me and robot bikes will take over the trails...
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Looks like the rules should be placed around the manufacturers as much as anything else.
There already are rules, but they are routinely broken by owners and vendors.
For example, e-bikes must shut their motors down when the speed of the bike reaches 14mph or so. Yet many of these things fly past me at 20mph with that unmistakable whine.
Realistically you can not enforce this stuff in the wilderness. You can't even enforce it in a city.
A community policed blanket ban is viable and sensible I reckon.
I reckon they are cool for trail centers and Afan like places tho
Howard
Yeah, me too.
Battery and motor tech is moving on so fast you might as well allow scooters / motorcross bikes. You could try to impose some kind of speed restriction but then...enforcement.