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Leave aside my personal feelings about ebikes. That is not material to this
conversation. Please refrain from that Trump Obamacare rhetoric which is
singularly unhelpful.
I still am at a loss for why you don't see the issue. The issue is the
negative perceptions to motorized vehicles on trails. Land Managers and other
user groups think ebikes are motorized vehicles. LM's have policies against
motorized vehicles. If ebikes go on bike trails they annoy land managers and
other user groups and will jeopardize bike access. This is not conjecture.
The corresponding issue is that many trail advocates see no reason why they
should devote their resources to trying to change land managers and other user
groups minds that e-bikes = motorized = bad. My opinion is that if industry
wants land managers and other user groups to have a positive attitude towards
ebikes then industry should do the work to make that happen.
So my question, will industry do that? Ie advocate for ebikes on a local
level?
Jan. 10, 2017, 9 p.m. - Lee Lau
#!markdown Leave aside my personal feelings about ebikes. That is not material to this conversation. Please refrain from that Trump Obamacare rhetoric which is singularly unhelpful. I still am at a loss for why you don't see the issue. The issue is the negative perceptions to motorized vehicles on trails. Land Managers and other user groups think ebikes are motorized vehicles. LM's have policies against motorized vehicles. If ebikes go on bike trails they annoy land managers and other user groups and will jeopardize bike access. This is not conjecture. The corresponding issue is that many trail advocates see no reason why they should devote their resources to trying to change land managers and other user groups minds that e-bikes = motorized = bad. My opinion is that if industry wants land managers and other user groups to have a positive attitude towards ebikes then industry should do the work to make that happen. So my question, will industry do that? Ie advocate for ebikes on a local level?