Moab has drawn the line when it comes to e-bike access to trails. Last week, the area’s field office of the Bureau of Land Management banned electric-powered bicycles from dedicated mountain bike routes.
“The Moab BLM has determined that motor-assisted bicycles (electric, gas, or diesel) are motorized vehicles,” the BLM . “The use of motor-assisted bicycles is only allowed on motorized trails.”
The move puts e-bikes in the same category as ATVs and dirt bikes. Riders looking to bring an e-bike into the mountain biking hotbed will no longer have access to popular trails like Pipe Dream, Slickrock, and Klondike Bluffs. , motorized vehicles can access portions of trails like Porcupine Rim, which have sections designated as “Jeep roads,” but not the singletrack. Moab BLM has of strictly mountain bike trails, but the area does have for motorized vehicles.