Humans.....relax and read what you have been typing - AndrewMajor is quoting me on ebike take-over timeline, Syncro is already speculating on ebike burnout, Flipfantasia is whinning about trail maintenane and advocacy....and that's just a recap of page 8 on this thread....pathetic. Stop the panic, we are live hypocritical lives, yet some of you still need to point fingers and criminalize ebikes. Why?
Look around your life, nothing has changed? That big screen 8K t.v., that lithium mining Atacama desert nightmare Tesla in the drive way, your new $2000 Apple you're typing on, how about the $1.38 liter gas you filled up your Volvo with to drive to the new Fromme parking lot built with fossil fuels, internet, chainsaws (used to cut tress down to build the trails you ride - remember there used to be hand saws), electricity, ski chairlifts. airplane travel versus boat or sail powered vessel....I mean we really could go on forever. You will die, I will die, does it matter what our opinions are in the big picture? You are conceited if you think so, collective conscience will always prevail; if it's meant to be, it will be.
Stop the lunacy and embarrassment, the commentary is petty . If ebikes take over, so be it, if they die, well then I guess it was a fad. Either way, I will still be riding my bike in one capacity or another, who really gives a shit anyhow?