E-bike snobbery

[SDK^]

We have had our EMTB's 2 years now and they have enabled us to do rides we would not have been able to do without electric power.

- Sessioning bike parks without using uplifts (Doing more riding and saving money)
- Multi laps of trail centres
- Long MTB rides, e.g. Afan Skyline trail (52km, 1,000 meters climbing)

My son also now has a Downhill MTB, so I bought an extra battery for my EMTB, and a charging station so I can tow him up smaller bike parks (417, Forest of Dean, Windhill etc..) all day long

 

[robj20]

I mean that's not especially long or high as far as I'm concerned, that's a standard ride, maybe a bit shorter but another couple hundred meters climbing.
Id like an ebike for off piste stuff where you'd want to do maybe 3000m climbing.

 

[Junglist]

We have had our EMTB's 2 years now and they have enabled us to do rides we would not have been able to do without electric power.

- Sessioning bike parks without using uplifts (Doing more riding and saving money)
- Multi laps of trail centres
- Long MTB rides, e.g. Afan Skyline trail (52km, 1,000 meters climbing)

My son also now has a Downhill MTB, so I bought an extra battery for my EMTB, and a charging station so I can tow him up smaller bike parks (417, Forest of Dean, Windhill etc..) all day long

See, I can see an e-bike being worth its weight in gold there.

Ultimately, it comes down to what you want to get out of riding a bicycle. If you just want to be out in the fresh air and country roads and you aren’t particularly fussed about the fitness angle, accomplishing hard efforts and enjoying the suffering then an eBike is a no brainer but if you enjoy tackling hills and being powered by your own legs they probably seem counter productive.

Neither position is wrong. Just two sides of one coin.

 

[SDK^]

I mean that's not especially long or high as far as I'm concerned, that's a standard ride, maybe a bit shorter but another couple hundred meters climbing.
Id like an ebike for off piste stuff where you'd want to do maybe 3000m climbing.

This is MTB'ing - not road riding!
Also, for context - the 52km Skyline trail still took 5 hours to complete on eMTB's and I've rode up Snowdon & down 2 hours quicker on a pedal bike, for context of the type of Terrain for this ride.

 

[robj20]

This is MTB'ing - not road riding!
Also, for context - the 52km Skyline trail still took 5 hours to complete on eMTB's and I've rode up Snowdon & down 2 hours quicker on a pedal bike, for context of the type of Terrain for this ride.

Yeah I know, I don't ride on roads either. Just last Saturday I did 40.6km 1,270m in the Pennines, not a particular big ride, pretty normal though, sometimes I go further sometimes I go higher. 60km isn't uncommon.

I've never been so close to getting an emtb as I have now though, having got my hardtail back in action my 130mm trail bike doesn't get as much action so thinking an emtb might be useful for sessioning stuff and the hardtail for most everything else.