Thread: E-bikes, E-hunting bikes - what've you got?

Once you excede 250 watt motive power you can't "legally" use it where MTB's are permitted by the so called powers to be. So you might as well go full monty and embrace petrol power
Yes, EMTB have their place, on tracks and forestry roads. But try heading bush for a 5 day hunt, all equipment on board, 30km ride in, and two deer on board for the trip out. Even the lowly mudbug, with its minimal suspension, is streets ahead in the comfy arse and carrying department



800m in front of this photo is a shaley slope inclinometered at 29 degrees. Bikes putt up there, no running out of puff a third of the way up

Originally Posted by XR500

Once you excede 250 watt motive power you can't "legally" use it where MTB's are permitted by the so called powers to be. So you might as well go full monty and embrace petrol power
Yes, EMTB have their place, on tracks and forestry roads. But try heading bush for a 5 day hunt, all equipment on board, 30km ride in, and two deer on board for the trip out. Even the lowly mudbug, with its minimal suspension, is streets ahead in the comfy arse and carrying department

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800m in front of this photo is a shaley slope inclinometered at 29 degrees. Bikes putt up there, no running out of puff a third of the way up

Yeah that's a lot of gear. Beyond my MTB for sure

Originally Posted by XR500

Once you excede 250 watt motive power you can't "legally" use it where MTB's are permitted by the so called powers to be. So you might as well go full monty and embrace petrol power
Yes, EMTB have their place, on tracks and forestry roads. But try heading bush for a 5 day hunt, all equipment on board, 30km ride in, and two deer on board for the trip out. Even the lowly mudbug, with its minimal suspension, is streets ahead in the comfy arse and carrying department

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800m in front of this photo is a shaley slope inclinometered at 29 degrees. Bikes putt up there, no running out of puff a third of the way up

I was dirt bike rider, (can `t do those jumping stuffs) but have retired from two wheels and really like to ride quad for fishing, hunting. My question is where I can legally ride them on public land? Lots MTB trails really will provide lots of fun, can I used it on Quad? THank you

Originally Posted by Black Rabbit

My question is where I can legally ride them on public land? Lots MTB trails really will provide lots of fun, can I used it on Quad? THank you

Well...that's a good question. I think in Canterbury there are very few, if any, legal places to take a quad hunting on public land?

Originally Posted by XR500

Once you excede 250 watt motive power you can't "legally" use it where MTB's are permitted by the so called powers to be. So you might as well go full monty and embrace petrol power
Yes, EMTB have their place, on tracks and forestry roads. But try heading bush for a 5 day hunt, all equipment on board, 30km ride in, and two deer on board for the trip out. Even the lowly mudbug, with its minimal suspension, is streets ahead in the comfy arse and carrying department

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800m in front of this photo is a shaley slope inclinometered at 29 degrees. Bikes putt up there, no running out of puff a third of the way up

just noticed the blue n brown early macpac internal frame pack....I have got the same one here.....they were one of the first internals around,the side pockets came off and got lost....big/long ,not very sturdy and now delaminating something terrible....

Greta Thunberg is going to have an embolism is she reads this debaucherous thread haha.

"We try to stop men having fun and look what they do with our green technology"

A good general article to understand hunting ebike technology and models available:
https://ebikegeneration.com/blogs/ne...bikes-for-2019

Shearer: Yeah. Being fully ridged it really benefits from the low pressures. Much like a quad the low pressures soak up bumps and provide great traction. On the down side it does make it harder to pedal so an electric version would be good. Had it in all sorts of places.

Good to know. From umpteen hundred 4wd club trips - Coast to Coast etc - varying tyre pressures crucial to widen traction footprint but also for comfort. We do it all the time. Same (albeit to a lesser degree) with my offroad motorbikes as needed. From this conversation I'd be looking at a fatter tyre E like the Cherokee Chief, hopefully with some suspension. My last Ebike had simple front shocks plus seat suspension - very elementary but it helped. Then run bigger tyres softish (amazed you can run them at 4psi) and they'll be good to go.

Would not spend Big coin on an offroad E however. My previous offroad motorbikes were very capable, and little mudbugs/XR150s/AG100s in good condition still pretty cheap. Often well under 2k for a tidy one

@Jhon, what's the saddle you have on the Haibike ? Does not look like the one they have in the shop photos.

Originally Posted by ebf

@Jhon, what's the saddle you have on the Haibike ? Does not look like the one they have in the shop photos.

It has Lookin Royal Gel on it. Amazing comfort. They are about $65 but was swapped for no extra when I bought the bike

This is what the army were trialing.

Originally Posted by Allizdog

This is what the army were trialing.

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Rode one in aussie they were trialing, pretty amazing bit of kit

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Originally Posted by Allizdog

This is what the army were trialing.

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Replacement for LAV's ? LOL

Ubco?

'Trialling' is a bit of a long bow...trialling against what set of parameters? Trialling against what other contenders?

Having a play at attempting to be green for the bosses is about all the Ubco is good for.

Yes the blurb says payload 150kg, max distance 120km. But I bet those two figures are not compatible. Also, its not set up for proper off road travel...not with puny shock absorbers and tiny front fork travel.

Not completely knocking it, but having a vehicle that cannot go anywhere for 4-6 hours does not fit any tactical envelope I can think of.

Yes, it may have some value back in the rear, inside a logistic base for putting to and fro attending O groups or getting to the mess tent first.

But SF recce asset in front of recon assets yeah, nah. I know for a fact the petrol powered enduro bikes our SF guys use can carry that weight if necessary, but over the most gnarly terrain, for at least 100km. Chrome molly frame, 300mm of suspension travel, and in 2 minutes the bike would be fueled up ready to do it all again! (not sure if the rider would though!!!)

Its the Army FFS. Not DoC or some District council wanting to be seen as uber green. It needs to work well all of the time. And petrol and diesel power is the only tried and tested motive power we have at this point it time.