Video: Holybike

 I can see these electric bikes as very useful for people who have some sort of a disability or permanent injury, so that they can't pedal for long (or something similar), but they still want to enjoy a ride with their buddies. E-bikes for them are a blessing.

But everyone else is riding an e-bike is a wuss.

 This may be one good case where it is acceptable. I can't really think of a disability that would fall into this category. A few months back I had gotten to the top of Rocky Knob park here, which is one helluva climb, and while I was resting at the top a guy who was missing the lower half of his left leg went by me. He had a prosthetic attaching his knee to the pedal. He didn't need an e-bike, but maybe some other people do.

 would it not be useful for just getting back to the top of a dh trail? Going up hills is great on an xc bike, but going up hills on my dh rig is just not fun.

 Finally, I think you guys got it right. If I lived in a city and didn't ride bikes this would be useful espicially in cities with bad parking or narrow roads. However using it as an alternative as a trail riding bike, well quite frankly, it's pretty lame.

 I'm with macherschu. Nobody has a problem with shuttling or lift access. How is this different? If you can get the weight if an electic motor down and mount it low it may be the secret weapon to make DH bikes more useful.

 You make it seem like it's one or the other. I have both regular bikes and an e-bike I slapped together. I ride them just as much as each other. When I do solo runs on my local trail, I take my e-bike. When I'm riding with others, I ride my regular bike. Though it has a motor, you're still pedaling and, like having gears, you can use it to make things easier or harder. I pedal just as much, either way, but the e-bike just allows me to do the uphills quicker than I would on my normal bike. Also, my e-bike was built on my '05 Kona Stinky which was already a 50lbs pig. It's still a bike and not a motorcycle or a moped. It's allowed to go where bikes are allowed to go for the most part. Here in Southern California, "no motorized vehicles allowed" usually pertains to gas powered vehicles. E-bikes are allowed on buses, trains, and other forms of public transportation. In my personal opinion, I feel that e-bikes fall into their own category separate from motorcycles and bicycles, but this video makes it seem like it's some sort of innovation for normal bikes. I can understand that point of view without agreeing with it. Here in the 90's, when suspension was getting popular on bikes, some viewed it as cheating and others as innovation. Same goes for gears, shifters, disc brakes, etc etc. Again, I don't think e-bikes should be grouped with regular bikes, but I can see how the makers of this video view it as some sort of innovation to biking.

 Lehel-NS, your mother is a wuss.

 lance armstrong cheated less then this mario guy

 Mario should have stuck to plumbing.

 Or just buy a 250 or 450.

 yes man

 I have a feeling Holybike has ordered its entire staff to come on Pinkbike and vote down any anti-electric MTB comment.

 yep all 7 of them.

 not sure what your picking... is it being old or being a theif?

 Nah Sexy XC!

 That's why I have one on my Stinky. Hahaha