Originally Posted by Happy Feet

a. Enclosed below are two images of the same model of mountain bike. No mental gymnastics needed to equate the two. In fact, the challenge would be in finding major differences other than the e function.

b. I highly doubt a discussion on a forum is going to alter the course of access for mountain bikes. This is just an attempt to limit any discussion by an appeal to "think of the children".

c. Evangelists are usually defined as holding a belief system and attempting to impose that on all others. No one is trying to say everyone should ride an e-mtb here but some are sure trying to say they have no place in mountain biking. Who's the evangelist?

d. Other than a passing sentence about seeing mtbing as an area where e might make sense, there has been no discussion about e-bikes on the road or commuting. Again another attempt to deflect. This thread is about the impact of mtbs on wilderness areas and e-mtbs are a part of that discussion.