{"id":153258,"date":"2019-09-30T20:37:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T03:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=153258"},"modified":"2019-09-30T20:37:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T03:37:44","slug":"are-electric-mountain-bikes-ruining-trail-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=153258","title":{"rendered":"Are Electric Mountain Bikes Ruining Trail Systems?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when mountain bikers were the \u201cdrunk uncle\u201d at the outdoor buffet: socially awkward, irreverent, \u201ctoo noisy, too fast,\u201d outcasts on the dusty lam. Hikers called them out for harshing the trail\u2019s mellow. Conservationists pegged bikes as trail wreckers. Decades later, the once rogue group of trail punks have grown up, are wiser, savvy, and organized. The International Mountain Biking Association (IMBA) has emptied countless tubs of elbow grease advocating for social and physical space on the trails to ensure we have places to ride.<\/p>\n<p>But here we are again. Same story, new bikes\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/skystatement.com\/are-electric-mountain-bikes-ruining-trail-systems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when mountain bikers were the \u201cdrunk uncle\u201d at the outdoor buffet: socially awkward, irreverent, \u201ctoo noisy, too fast,\u201d outcasts on the dusty lam. Hikers called them out for harshing the trail\u2019s mellow. Conservationists pegged bikes as trail wreckers. Decades later, the once rogue group of trail punks have grown up, are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,69,39,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-electric-vehicles","category-mt-bike","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153260,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153258\/revisions\/153260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}