E-motorcycle Collision San Clemente

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  1. SCPivot

    SCPivot Newbie with Hope!

    Location:
    San Clemente ca
    Name:
    Todd
    Current Bike:
    Yeti SB5c
    He’s been identified- he’s the same guy that has almost killed me twice. He loves bombing downhill around blind corners and can’t control his electric motorcycle worth a damn. And he’s a real di*k about it. Glad he’s been ID’d.
     
  2. SCPivot

    SCPivot Newbie with Hope!

    Location:
    San Clemente ca
    Name:
    Todd
    Current Bike:
    Yeti SB5c
    It’s him. I ride out there 5 times a week.
     
  3. Faust29

    Faust29 Moderator

    Location:
    irgendwo
    Name:
    B. Bunny
    Current Bike:
    I gots some bikes.
    I lived 15 minutes from there, and never rode the San Clemente single tracks... :confused:

    Do you have a lot of issues with the motos there or was this an anomaly? And any more word on how the victim is doing?
     
  4. TwoWheel Eric

    TwoWheel Eric Member

    Location:
    Orange County
    Name:
    Eric
    Current Bike:
    Ibis Ripley V4
    Saw 2 groups of E-Motos on the trails this morning at Aliso. They are multiplying. Can't wait till Xmas when the spoiled kids of OC get their $4,500 E-Motos.
     
  5. BonsaiNut

    BonsaiNut iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    Troutman, NC
    Name:
    Greg P
    Current Bike:
    Santa Cruz Hightower CC XX1
    Truer words have never been spoken.

    When you stereotype you will be wrong most of the time. Show me a stereotype and I will show you exceptions. And in the case of DB's on SoCal trails... there are DB's everywhere. Just fewer in NC... as has been statistically proven through the BNut NC Niceness Survey.
     
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  6. bvader

    bvader iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    HB
    Name:
    Mr. Brown
    Speaking of DBs today no Joke guy on Major e-Moto doing Wheelies ON the HB bike path... Between people then he went on the sand and no joke he had to be going 25-30mph.. I was doing 15..

    So chalk up another for Socal!!! :)
     
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  7. TwoWheel Eric

    TwoWheel Eric Member

    Location:
    Orange County
    Name:
    Eric
    Current Bike:
    Ibis Ripley V4
    I believe it all, except for the part about you doing 15 ;-)
     
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  8. mike

    mike iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Western US
    Name:
    Mike O
    Current Bike:
    HT, FS
    That's pretty much what I inferred, not a sweeping statement about every person in SoCal. :rolleyes:

    :thumbsup:
     
  9. SCPivot

    SCPivot Newbie with Hope!

    Location:
    San Clemente ca
    Name:
    Todd
    Current Bike:
    Yeti SB5c
    Haven’t heard about the victim other than he had surgery for his broken jaw and it’s wired shut for 6 weeks. I really have t had many issues with motos on the local trails..I’ve seen them occasionally but most of them slow down and at least try to be cool. This guy is a menace.
     
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  10. fos'l

    fos'l Well-Known Member

    Name:
    Bob
    Current Bike:
    2005 Santa Cruz Superlight
    Been enjoying CHSP (Lambert side) almost every weekend and haven't seen an "e" in awhile, the Green River side usually has one or two, but careful riders. The Lambert side has an area with a sign "Motorcycle Parking Only". I'd like to take my errand e-bike out there and take a picture in front of it.
     
  11. mtnbikej

    mtnbikej J-Zilla

    Location:
    Orange
    Name:
    J
    Current Bike:
    SC Chameleon SS, SC Hightower

    They are out there....I haven't been out there lately and NOT run across several of them.
     
  12. fos'l

    fos'l Well-Known Member

    Name:
    Bob
    Current Bike:
    2005 Santa Cruz Superlight
    J, my wife and I are there very early, so maybe the "lazy" ones sleep in. It's pretty frigid at times, but helps keep the pain of ascending those hills (for me) in perspective.
     
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  13. Stubborn Approach

    Stubborn Approach Member

    Location:
    Irvine
    Name:
    Tony
    Current Bike:
    2022 Pivot Firebird
    Its an everyday occurrence for the last year or so & the groups of them are getting bigger. They are starting to use lights & ride at night now too. Can’t say they are silent though, they sound like a squadron of Tie Fighters out there on the fireroads. They use the steeper trails for hill climb practice & I have almost been hit head on by one on HITF in the tightest section. Can count on their tires being the first ones in the mud after a big storm too. I know I’m gonna end up smacking one of them upside the head with shovel one of these days. I hope the city starts to do something about them on the streets.
     
  14. fos'l

    fos'l Well-Known Member

    Name:
    Bob
    Current Bike:
    2005 Santa Cruz Superlight
    Even worse (to me), my wife and I were walking st B* on Christmas eve and encountered two large ICE motorcycles wedging themselves out of the gate. Guess tje road to Maple Springs must have been closed. May be of interest, but early (crack of dawn to 9:00 AM or so), the Green River side of CHSP is almost devoid of any bicycle traffic, including "e".
     
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  15. mtnbikej

    mtnbikej J-Zilla

    Location:
    Orange
    Name:
    J
    Current Bike:
    SC Chameleon SS, SC Hightower

    That’s cause they sleep in and come out in packs.
     
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  16. Stubborn Approach

    Stubborn Approach Member

    Location:
    Irvine
    Name:
    Tony
    Current Bike:
    2022 Pivot Firebird
    Off to a great start this year…

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  17. SCPivot

    SCPivot Newbie with Hope!

    Location:
    San Clemente ca
    Name:
    Todd
    Current Bike:
    Yeti SB5c
    Is this real? If so that’s awesome!
     
  18. Sidewalk

    Sidewalk iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    The road is where I call home
    Name:
    Josh
    Current Bike:
    N+1
    Caught a guy riding a Chinese dirt bike around Sycamore in Riverside. When I confronted him he didn't care that it was illegal, and says he has been doing it for 30 years, which I highly doubt. He was also ripping UP the DH trails, tearing into berms and jumps that the trail workers just cleaned up/built causing damage along the way.
     
  19. Mrtahiti80

    Mrtahiti80 Member

    Location:
    Colton, Ca
    Name:
    abe
    F$ckin hell. People!
     
  20. TwoWheel Eric

    TwoWheel Eric Member

    Location:
    Orange County
    Name:
    Eric
    Current Bike:
    Ibis Ripley V4
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  21. Stubborn Approach

    Stubborn Approach Member

    Location:
    Irvine
    Name:
    Tony
    Current Bike:
    2022 Pivot Firebird
  22. TwoWheel Eric

    TwoWheel Eric Member

    Location:
    Orange County
    Name:
    Eric
    Current Bike:
    Ibis Ripley V4
    Do you know which trail it was on?

    Disregard, I see it in the article. Thanks.

    I had assumed it was a head on, but I don't think anyone could ride up that trail even on an e-bike.
     
  23. Stubborn Approach

    Stubborn Approach Member

    Location:
    Irvine
    Name:
    Tony
    Current Bike:
    2022 Pivot Firebird
    The one where 55-60lb bikes & gravity could be a problem for the inexperienced. I wonder how much good a ride at your own risk sign at the top would do.
     
  24. Obsidian

    Obsidian iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    Costa Mesa
    Name:
    Obsidian
    Current Bike:
    27.5 Intense Tracer
    6 Kids No Brains is a downhill jump line. So, an eBiker was probably climbing it ... just because he could.

    It is all (almost) Pendleton land. It might be a good time to put some Marines on eBike duty and confiscate eBikes like they do on their land they don't like us riding on.
     
  25. Stubborn Approach

    Stubborn Approach Member

    Location:
    Irvine
    Name:
    Tony
    Current Bike:
    2022 Pivot Firebird
    It’s mtber land, just need to keep the surrons & pit bikers out without the authorities having jurisdiction needing to patrol or enter the park for any reason.
     
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  26. evdog

    evdog iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    San diego
    Name:
    Evan S
    Was it actually head on, as in one of them trying to ride up the trail? Or did a descending rider crash into someone slower or stopped?
     
  27. Obsidian

    Obsidian iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    Costa Mesa
    Name:
    Obsidian
    Current Bike:
    27.5 Intense Tracer
    It is Camp Pendleton land. If mtbers had enforced our own instead of smiling nicely we might not have this problem. I talk Sh!t to eBikers all the time, so I feel like I have done my part.
     
  28. Obsidian

    Obsidian iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    Costa Mesa
    Name:
    Obsidian
    Current Bike:
    27.5 Intense Tracer
    Unclear.
     
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  29. TwoWheel Eric

    TwoWheel Eric Member

    Location:
    Orange County
    Name:
    Eric
    Current Bike:
    Ibis Ripley V4
    The trails south of the upper fireroad are Camp Pendleton land which was leased for 50 years to the state to create San Onofre State Park. The lease just expired but was renewed for two years so that a longer term lease can again be put in place. The accident occurred on a trail north of the fireroad. Not sure who has jurisdiction of that land.
     
  30. Sidewalk

    Sidewalk iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    The road is where I call home
    Name:
    Josh
    Current Bike:
    N+1
    I posted about a pit bike running around at Sycamore Canyon in Riverside, riding UP the jump line, and a few people jumped in to tell me I was wrong for calling him out. I don't think talking Sh!t to eBikes is going to go far anymore.
     
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