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Just wondering how well they work.
Are they legal in wilderness areas where motorized vehicles are prohibited?
Are they legal in wilderness areas where motorized vehicles are prohibited?
In our Frank Church Wilderness one cannot have anything with a wheel, so even a pull cart or wheelbarrow is forbidden.
An electric motor is still a motor.
I have been in the Frank Church wilderness. Is there anyplace where a wheeled vehicle could even be used if legal? Everything I saw was up & down with rocks and vegetation everywhere. Even horses would have problems in some of those areas.
We have an electric golf cart that we use on the farm. I have gotten to the point where I prefer it over my ATV as a hunting buggy.
It is smooth and very quiet.
I think the bike would b perfect
I am 1.25 miles from my back door to my blind.Well, I only considered the electric bikes because of my lack of physical prowess anymore. I used to jog to the back of my place. Now, I do good to walk to the kitchen without stopping to catch my breath. .
Definitely a state-by-state issue, and lots of grey areas. For example, my state (NY) divides them into pedal-assist and throttle-operated. If you have to be turning the pedals to get power, then it's not a motor vehicle. If you can stop pedaling once you get moving and just maintain your speed with a throttle, then it's a motor vehicle. The problem is that a motor vehicle in this state needs turn signals and brake lights, and most of the electro-bikes don't have those. So technically, throttle-operated electric bikes aren't legal in NY State.I think that would depend on how the state classifies them.
Are they legal in wilderness areas where motorized vehicles are prohibited?
Suppressed hunting vehicle, makes sense.
And no gasoline smell.On my old hunting lease 2 of the older guys used electric golf carts. The only way you could hear them coming was from the sound of gravel rattling under their tires.
In CO, no, they can not be used in a wilderness area.Just wondering how well they work.
Are they legal in wilderness areas where motorized vehicles are prohibited?
I thought it would be a no-go.In CO, no, they can not be used in a wilderness area.
That's true.They are interesting, and seem like a good idea if the route is passable with one of these contraptions- but I think it would be problematic to haul out anything bigger than a turkey on a bicycle.
Oh, an expensive silent option is the "Bad Boy" atv. The guy I bought my used ATV from sells 'em at his Arctic Cat dealership in Waco. He and my dove hunting buddy are friends and they came down here for a goose hunting weekend a couple of years ago. He brought a 4 seater Bad Boy. That thing was AWESOME, would run 40 mph down our dirt road and he negotiated some WICKED mud that weekend in a rice field we were hunting. It was so quiet, they wanted to see the "neighborhood" (small tracts of land with a few permanent residents like me). We saw ALL SORTS of pigs and deer running down the road in silence that we'd never seen in the truck. I was totally impressed, but I'm not real impressed with the price on those things.
Can't do this with a golf cart......
But, you can't drag a deer very far without something protecting it or you'll drag through the skin.