The Future of eBikes: How Fast is Too Fast?

[stompandgo]

The fastest I've gone on my race bike is 63mph (indicated). At the front of the field, closed caravan. I also worked as an official at the Tour of Utah when Sepp Kuss rode away from the field solo for the GC win. Descending into Park City, he hit 74mph. My driver was smoking the tires in the switchbacks. Scared the crap out of me.

 

[jabberwocky]

But I will admit, I would love one if we had dedicated trails for them, which isnt going to happen.

Moto/4x4 trails have existed for a long time, and bikes like the Surron/Talaria would be great on them! But if you mean new moto trails at places that only have hiking and MTB trails, no, probably not. Most managing agencies and volunteers from other user groups have been fighting motos poaching and tearing up trails for decades and their opinion of moto riders are (in my experience) extremely negative. If the Surron guys want to get together and work on access and trail building, more power to them, but from what I see they aren't really interested in doing the work and have a massive uphill battle ahead to build a positive image of themselves if they ever wanted to start.

Certainly possible! Skateboarders did it in the late 90s-2000s. But not easy and wouldn't be fast.

 

[kevinmccune]

The fastest I've gone on my race bike is 63mph (indicated). At the front of the field, closed caravan. I also worked as an official at the Tour of Utah when Sepp Kuss rode away from the field solo for the GC win. Descending into Park City, he hit 74mph. My driver was smoking the tires in the switchbacks. Scared the crap out of me.

again wow!

 

[kevinmccune]

Moto/4x4 trails have existed for a long time, and bikes like the Surron/Talaria would be great on them! But if you mean new moto trails at places that only have hiking and MTB trails, no, probably not. Most managing agencies and volunteers from other user groups have been fighting motos poaching and tearing up trails for decades and their opinion of moto riders are (in my experience) extremely negative. If the Surron guys want to get together and work on access and trail building, more power to them, but from what I see they aren't really interested in doing the work and have a massive uphill battle ahead to build a positive image of themselves if they ever wanted to start.

Certainly possible! Skateboarders did it in the late 90s-2000s. But not easy and wouldn't be fast.

had fantasies of MBTs around here,the forest service was not interested,then reality checked in.

 

[MrHyak]

had fantasies of MBTs around here,the forest service was not interested,then reality checked in.

When I was younger we did a lot of riding on forest service roads on our motorcycles but there were restrictions in some areas due to risk of fire (sparks from the exhaust). At least there is no concern of that from the ebikes.