BH electrifies the trail with Yamaha powered e-Lynx and its Rebel family

You should change your name to ‘motorcyclerumor.com’

I’m going to put a set of cranks on a YZ250, and call it a gBike (gas powered assist bike) and go rip up some single track.

I have a piano branded Yamaha and of course it’s not a motorcycle! 😀

This is getting old.
Bikerumor, why report on this if not just to fan the flames? If you’r so confident this is cycling related and something your cycling viewers want to see, than put your money where your typing fingers go and put up a separate site. “ebikerumor”, whatever, and check the metrics yourself. The only reason this page gets any clicks is because readers know it will be filled with pleas, like mine, to stop this.

Train access is tenuous at best in most regions of the US.

Its news, but despite the marketing managers feeding it to you, its NOT CYCLING news. Please stop.

This makes bicycling more accessible. Not everyone who wants to enjoy some mountain biking has time to train.

in a few years when the cops/rangers can’t tell the difference between bicycles and motorcycles we’ll all be treated like motorcyclists and be required to have all the same B.S. like insurance, license, helmet, lights etc…eBikes are a perfect example of “this is why we can’t have nice things”

No. Your wrong about that. The whole premise of the e-bikes is to be grouped in with those that are non-motorized. Which is in reality only going to group the non-motorized two wheeled users in with the motorized two wheeled users.
The comparison to the boats is pretty solid in my opinion. This is like the watercraft industry developing supped up kayak that only offers thrust when you paddle, marketing it as a high speed water weapon, and then trying to convince the buyers market and the land and water managers that it belongs in the same waterbodies as NON-MOTORIZED vessels because you still need to paddle it. Beginning to see the irony? I Know these are not dirtbikes. But as clear as it is to see that these are not dirtbikes, they are also not human powered mountain bikes.
I am not willing to leave my trail access up to the ability of a policy maker to see the different shades of gray, or their ability to enforce and restrict the use of each. You know what they do? They will lay down a blanket and ban mountain bikes the moment they begin to hear the words motor and bikes used synonymously.

https://www.imba.com/news/eMTB-early-study-results

Is an ‘e-assist’ bike an ‘e-bike’? It’s an interesting question. The ‘e-bikes’ I see getting around go uphill by themselves, they more like bicycles with an electric drive that can do the pedalling for you. An ‘e-assist’ bike, well, you still need to pedal, as the electric drive is connected to the crank, not the wheel.

Regardless, all the usual comments above.

What I don’t see here (maybe it’s there but lost), is more of a societal question. On the roads and paths, ok, fine, but on trails? The way I see it mountain biking is one of those effort/reward things. What you put in, is what you get out and that can be anything from the buzz, to the access to otherwise harder to get to scenery etc. Just because it’s there, does not mean ‘you have an automatic right’ to it, something that seems to have leached itself into modern societies. No longer do you have to put in the time and effort to get it, you can take a short cut.

Does that mean I have an exclusionist view? No ,to me if you want to access what mountain biking offers, then you need to put in the effort. What’s next, a e-assisted climbing harness? It could be then argued that there are cases where some people need the assist, they might have a disability or physical condition that prevents them from riding up in the mountains. That’s a reasonable call but to counter that it can then be asked if the condition is such that they can’t pedal a bike up to where ever it is, should they be there at all? Just because you can does not mean you should.

And as for trials, access yadda yadda. Will these e-whatevers have an impact? Hell yes they will and whoever says they won’t is deluding themselves. It may not be because of the equipment itself, I agree, a bike like this will have as much/little impact as say a heavier rider but what WILL have impact are the increased users and the increased speeds. And these bikes will usher in a new ‘type’ of rider with none of the understanding of how to ‘behave’ on trails in shared areas, as has happened already with the ‘new crop’ of riders we see on the trials. And while some will learn over time, where things are already fragile, that time might never come…

E-Bike could be O-Bike and you all would still complain…. AODA law states E-bikes can go where ever bicycles can go…. US department of transportation States an electric bicycle is a bicycle not a motor vehicle. “title 49 UNITED STATES CODE” BICYCLE electric big deal wait till you aren’t supper human and then maybe you will see things from a different point of view!

You ebike haters have no idea. Do you realize actually how much power 250 watts is. Not much is what, a fit rider can put out much more than that. Most 50cc scooters are rated at 2000 watts. Comparing ebikes to motorcycles is just silly.

Please bikerumour continue to post articles about all forms of bicycles.

Chris, I don’t care what you say. An e bike is far from rocket science. We will be modding these in no time. The manufacturer will have their design intent and the customer will change it.