Bonsai Nut
Nuttier than your average Nut
HaHaHA! Hope their bikes were confiscated along with a huge fine!
No joking - just across the county line in San Diego county there is an area where the National Forest borders Camp Pendleton. Some irresponsible mountain bikers had established some trails that cut through a back-country corner of the camp. The Marines put up signs, but people ignored them. So one Saturday the Marines showed up in force with several trucks, and every biker who came down the trail got ticketed, and their bike was confiscated, and they had to walk out. They got their bikes back after they paid their tickets.
So many people were talking about it on bike forums and social media, there isn't a person anywhere in SoCal who didn't hear about it. The Marines don't have trouble with people cutting through their camp any more
A high end mountain bike now weighs 48 to 53 lbs. Each year they get lighter.
This is the problem ^^^ They aren't "high end mountain bikes". They are e-bikes with knobby tires, a front suspension, and disk brakes. Dirt bikes have them too. People need to stop thinking about them as bikes - because they aren't. They don't follow the same rules of the road, and they don't follow the same trail access rules.
Whoever came up with the name "e-bike" is a marketing genius. If they sold them as e-mopeds or e-motos there would be 1/4 the demand
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