Comment: E-bikes intensifying the battles among trail users
E-bikes have opened the backcountry to more people, increasing the friction among users that already existed.
Source: heraldnet.com
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E-bikes have opened the backcountry to more people, increasing the friction among users that already existed.
Matt De Young, a mountain biker, finds it ironic that many of his fellow mountain bikers use the trail-degradation argument to oppose e-bike access to trails. For years, he said, mountain bikers were accused of "tearing up the landscape."