Odd comment about my ebike

[kevinmccune]

If the guy is fat, really old, a lonely weirdo or asthmatic I could see how he is "offended" with you getting out to enjoy the great outdoors. Otherwise carry some mace and be ready to use it should he confront you on the street. And/or invest in a good action camera.

25' hornet spray!

 

[Rexlion]

I was riding beside the railway tracks where a walking path had been worn into the grass.
There was a guy walking towards me that stopped walking and just stood there.
I pulled over into the long grass to go around him, where someone dug a hole in the ground that I couldn't see.

He had purposely stood where he needed to stand to steer me into the pit.

My e-bike just floated right through it.
The joke's on him.
I've got a mile of full suspension travel.

I'm pretty sure I would have told him, "thanks, @$$hole." I admit it, I'm not as nice as I should be.

 

[DDBB]

Face it, a lot of people hate seeing others having a good time

 

[Stefan Mikes]

The climate related to e-bikes has positively changed in Poland. As many senior people ride e-bikes nowadays as the phenomenon has broken through to the society's awareness. Younger people usually rent e-bikes in high mountains (some of them own e-MTBs). An organiser of gravel races once wrote: 'It was a greatest pleasure to climb Turbacz (1310 m a.s.l.) together with my wife on e-bikes! We couldn't have done it on analog bikes'.

I led a 50 mile gravel group ride last Sunday. 'It is an electric, eh?' asked the new member of the group and that was it. Everybody appreciated a leader who could stay in the head for most the time but also was able to fall behind to assist the weakest group member.

More and more younger people commute on e-bikes, often provided by the employer.

Yet everybody hates gangs of food couriers riding the illegal "Chinese scrap metal".

 

[DDBB]

Not to worry, the US gov't is going to send in the troops after those food courier gangs

 

[MrHyak]

Some extremists have even put out caltrops to flatten tires.

Looks like a metal goat head... We have those everywhere.

 

[jabberwocky]

A popular mountainbiking system near me had an issue with people boobytrapping trails. For several years someone would leave 2x4s with nails pounded through them on trails, especially the downhill runs (this was by far the most popular shuttle system in the region). It did stop eventually; word through the grapevine is a truckload of DH goons ran a trail and it was fine, shuttled to the top and found several traps on the next run so they sprinted down and caught the guy heading towards his truck at the bottom and give him a "talking to".

People can be weirdly possessive about public land that they feel belongs to them. I've had people give me grief riding smaller neighborhood trails that were public but primarily used by immediate locals.

 

[DDBB]

I've paddled creeks where fishing clubs who think they own the river have strung wire across the river at neck level. You can argue with them until you are blue in the face that they don't own the river and a navigable river may be used by anyone but they think it's theirs.

 

[Gionnirocket]

I know where I'd be dumping my spare mercury, other heavy metals and pesticides.
Maybe a old, unstable fully charged eBike battery to start

 

[DDBB]

Actually, the people from Canoe magazine years ago published an article where their crew specifically paddled one of these creeks where private fishing clubs thought they owned the river.After the boaters were harassed from the shore the state police were waiting for them at the take out location and arrested the paddlers. They went to court and won their case with the judge rightfully concluding that a navigable waterway has no ownership. Of course if the paddlers had set foot on the bank of the river, they could have been charged with trespassing but as long as they stayed on the water they were legal. After the whole incident happened, the fishing club people said if it happened again, they'd call the police again and have them arrested AGAIN. Seems as though the local police were on the side of the fishing camp.

 

[Gionnirocket]

Well if you made sure the local police / D.A. were made aware of the judge's ruling... You'd have pretty good evidence for unlawful arrests.
Maybe a letter to the local news outlets as well.
That said.... You live near some real a_h¢les

 

[harryS]

The waterways issue extends to beaches on Lake Michigan in Wisconsin. My friend has a home on the water, and it's been long established that he can walk the shoreline as far as he wants in most areas, if he stays on the wet sand, actually along the high water mark. You can also swim and fish.

Then you got his buddy with the ebikes, sneaking out there. We were the pioneers in the past, but now that everyone has one, we won't be under the radar,