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DO NO E-VIL “THE TIME HAS COME TO STOP AND THINK BEFORE YOU ROLL OUT THE INEVITABLE INSULT.”
They are here, people, and here to stay. E-bikes – love them or hate them – are getting people pedalling, and that is a good thing. Let’s open this e-issue of Full Sus with an open letter from Burg Wheelers Cycling Club member, BRETT FOURIE .. was prompted to put pen to paper by a picture doing the rounds on social media. A picture which inevitably also found its way onto our various Whatsapp chat groups. Yes, you all know what I’m referring to - yet another dig at e-bikes and why they shouldn’t be part of the cycling landscape. I hear the same thing over and over almost on a daily basis “it’s cheating”, “it’s only for old people”, “they don’t belong on the same trails as the rest of us normal bikers”. The list goes on. Cast your minds back five or six years. Many cyclists, including our very own peers and cycling buddies who rode with us then and still do now, scoffed at the idea of the 29-inch wheel. “Looks stupid,” they said, “will never catch on,” they said, “just another standard created by the cycling industry to make money from us,” they said. With the perfect vision of hindsight, 99% of mountain bikes present at any of our group outrides are in fact 29rs. Might I add in my opinion many amongst us would be better off from a performance and handling perspective on a 27.5 but that’s a discussion better left for another day.
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