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Pretty impressed with the E bike on gravel and sand. Knik river today going to throw it in the inflatable jet boat and ride the river gravel bars while water is low. Instagram video link. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb6KeOlJoEw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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I hunted some National Forest land that had been leased for natural gas drilling. There are a couple of main roads that all vehicles can drive and many smaller spur roads that are gated. The spur roads go to individual gas sites and only gas company employees/vehicles can open the gates. But you can walk around the gates or drive around them with a bicycle. We did most of our movements on the spur roads using e-bike, which we rented for the week. My buddy had a little trailer hooked onto one of the bikes and with that and one other bike, we could haul out a full elk in one trip. We had a generator at base camp and would recharge them every night.
This was a special situation that the e-bikes are well suited for. But they are awfully heavy and a lot of work if there is any kind of uphill terrain. They still need some development before I buy one.
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Been keeping an eye on these for a while. Impressed with a fat tire scooter that I found made or distributed out of the Phoenix area - name alludes me know. Be interesting to see if the bill in congress that gives a tax credit for e-bike purchases gets any traction or moves ahead.
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I hunted some National Forest land that had been leased for natural gas drilling. There are a couple of main roads that all vehicles can drive and many smaller spur roads that are gated. The spur roads go to individual gas sites and only gas company employees/vehicles can open the gates. But you can walk around the gates or drive around them with a bicycle. We did most of our movements on the spur roads using e-bike, which we rented for the week. My buddy had a little trailer hooked onto one of the bikes and with that and one other bike, we could haul out a full elk in one trip. We had a generator at base camp and would recharge them every night.
This was a special situation that the e-bikes are well suited for. But they are awfully heavy and a lot of work if there is any kind of uphill terrain. They still need some development before I buy one.
You know they put up a gate for a reason.
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I hunted some National Forest land that had been leased for natural gas drilling. There are a couple of main roads that all vehicles can drive and many smaller spur roads that are gated. The spur roads go to individual gas sites and only gas company employees/vehicles can open the gates. But you can walk around the gates or drive around them with a bicycle. We did most of our movements on the spur roads using e-bike, which we rented for the week. My buddy had a little trailer hooked onto one of the bikes and with that and one other bike, we could haul out a full elk in one trip. We had a generator at base camp and would recharge them every night.
This was a special situation that the e-bikes are well suited for. But they are awfully heavy and a lot of work if there is any kind of uphill terrain. They still need some development before I buy one.
You know they put up a gate for a reason. What is that reason? Are the lands behind it posted? Any signage that foot traffic and bicycle traffic aren't allowed?
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I hunted some National Forest land that had been leased for natural gas drilling. There are a couple of main roads that all vehicles can drive and many smaller spur roads that are gated. The spur roads go to individual gas sites and only gas company employees/vehicles can open the gates. But you can walk around the gates or drive around them with a bicycle. We did most of our movements on the spur roads using e-bike, which we rented for the week. My buddy had a little trailer hooked onto one of the bikes and with that and one other bike, we could haul out a full elk in one trip. We had a generator at base camp and would recharge them every night.
This was a special situation that the e-bikes are well suited for. But they are awfully heavy and a lot of work if there is any kind of uphill terrain. They still need some development before I buy one.
I'm not sure what you mean by "a lot of work if there is any kind of uphill terrain". I have a 850 watt fat tire e-bike that I can load up the racks and pull a trailer with a kayak on it. If it's a big rough hill I just get off and walk along side of it using the motor to pull me and the load along. I bought two extra batterys for it so I don't have to worry about charging it. Fat tire E-bikes are a godsend for us older guys.
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I hunted some National Forest land that had been leased for natural gas drilling. There are a couple of main roads that all vehicles can drive and many smaller spur roads that are gated. The spur roads go to individual gas sites and only gas company employees/vehicles can open the gates. But you can walk around the gates or drive around them with a bicycle. We did most of our movements on the spur roads using e-bike, which we rented for the week. My buddy had a little trailer hooked onto one of the bikes and with that and one other bike, we could haul out a full elk in one trip. We had a generator at base camp and would recharge them every night.
This was a special situation that the e-bikes are well suited for. But they are awfully heavy and a lot of work if there is any kind of uphill terrain. They still need some development before I buy one.
You know they put up a gate for a reason. What is that reason? Are the lands behind it posted? Any signage that foot traffic and bicycle traffic aren't allowed? To try to keep citizens off their public land.
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I looked at them a couple of years ago at the big Tulsa Gun Show. A dealer was set up selling them there.
They would be great for National Forest lands or BLM hunting areas where only bicycles and horses are allowed.
But the price was almost as much as a ATV 4-Wheeler. 😬
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Some areas allow hike in and horse traffic, but no motorized vehicles.
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They would be great for National Forest lands or BLM hunting areas where only bicycles and horses are allowed.
I'm not sure that kind of land actually exists, at least in Colorado. There are BLM lands where all vehicles are legal just about everywhere. There are National Forest lands where vehicles are limited to designated roads and where bicycles/motorcycles are limited to designated multi-use trails. In designated wilderness areas on National Forest lands, nothing with a motor or wheel is allowed. That's where you are most likely to see hunters using horses. But bicycles are not allowed.
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I hunted some National Forest land that had been leased for natural gas drilling. There are a couple of main roads that all vehicles can drive and many smaller spur roads that are gated. The spur roads go to individual gas sites and only gas company employees/vehicles can open the gates. But you can walk around the gates or drive around them with a bicycle. We did most of our movements on the spur roads using e-bike, which we rented for the week. My buddy had a little trailer hooked onto one of the bikes and with that and one other bike, we could haul out a full elk in one trip. We had a generator at base camp and would recharge them every night.
This was a special situation that the e-bikes are well suited for. But they are awfully heavy and a lot of work if there is any kind of uphill terrain. They still need some development before I buy one.
You know they put up a gate for a reason. The gates were not posted. They just put up the gates to prevent people from using and abusing the roads that the gas company built. The roads can get pretty muddy at times and they want to limit traffic to prevent rutting at those times. There was a gas company employee patrolling the area and we talked to him several times. Nice guy. But he didn't see any elk.
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They would be great for National Forest lands or BLM hunting areas where only bicycles and horses are allowed.
I'm not sure that kind of land actually exists, at least in Colorado. There are BLM lands where all vehicles are legal just about everywhere. There are National Forest lands where vehicles are limited to designated roads and where bicycles/motorcycles are limited to designated multi-use trails. In designated wilderness areas on National Forest lands, nothing with a motor or wheel is allowed. That's where you are most likely to see hunters using horses. But bicycles are not allowed. There are some well known areas here in AK which are non-motorized for hunting but open to bicycle. Electrics are verboten.
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