Thread: Bike Porn - Regardless of the motor, Show off your "two wheeled" beasties

Originally Posted by 25 /08 IMP

So far done a few MB park tracks Rotorua etc real love it as it's been years since I've been on a bike we are doing 300km next year down south ocean to Alps. Would be awesome getting into some hunting blocks .


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There are issues using a E MTB for hunting. I wrote quite a bit in the Forza dirt bike thread under the Outdoor transport heading. In essence they are fine riding with lightweight hunting kit for a day hunt, riding along forestry tracks sort of thing, but hit big hills, or gravel riverbeds, or lumpy going and they come up short and are hard work and the mythical 80km range evaporates before your eyes. Then you shoot something. What now?? 10-15kgs of meat on your back, along with rifle and day gear.

MTB's are not built as ruggedly as trail bikes. They are built to minimise weight. Period. Yes, with an 75kg rider, lycra onesy and two bananas and a drink bottle on them they can do some pretty cool things. But get a beefy Kiwi hunter with all his gear and rifle in and out of the bush is asking a bit too much from the current crop of EV bicycles.