After six years of travelling to Medicine Hat/Redcliff in the Spring for "first dirt", I would say - no. No you don't. Redcliff Alberta -...

True story. When e-bikes first dropped on the local scene, a well known multi-outlet LBS owner confided in me (censored to remove foul words): "I will NEVER sell those things - I won't be the one to get all the trails closed". A few years later that same person seems to rarely ride a bicycle that isn't powered. On those same trails. Powered by a motor. Like a motor...cycle? Look. I used to be very against e-bikes. I think it was my own ego mostly, reflecting back on all the y