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.
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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."
The ride at an Iowa amusement park where an 11-year-old boy was killed in 2021 will never reopen, the park's owners said.
Michael Jaramillo drowned on the Raging River ride at the Des Moines-area Adventureland Resort when the raft carrying his family flipped over.
The owners of Adventureland in Iowa announced that the ride that killed an 11-year-old boy will never reopen. Officials cited the park for 17 safety violations.