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Originally Posted by Eli Bingham
My guess is that if he was around today, doing the same thing, he'd most likely be riding a full suspension e-mtb (and complaining on the Internet about that, too).
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I'm not sure what he would have thought about ebikes, but he didn't like mountain bikes. He didn't like them because he basically had all the trails to himself in the old days, then when mountain bikes/biking took off, he experienced closed trails and access problems to private property, etc. A lot of the good trails he rode suddenly became off limits. I asked him once why he didn't ride a mountain bike, or at least a bike with wider tires, and he explained that on his rides there was a lot of pavement riding in comparison to dirt, and a heavier bike with fat tires would have slowed him down. Gravel bikes didn't exist as a genre at the time, but bikes like the Bruce Gordon Rock and Road did. The trails he rode in the Santa Cruz Mts were fairly smooth (not rocky) so he could get by with road with tires.