aden27

I'll be damned before I put a motor between me and my bike's drive train. The whole point for me is to sweat, and grunt and dig deep into myself to feel alive. If a hill kicks my butt one week, I set goals to eat better, train, focus, and go back for a second attempt - not stick a freaking motor on the bike. I used to get shuttled (a decade ago), but I found that I enjoy the day more when I pedal my way through, event if it means one descent instead of three. I'm no top athlete, but I've ridden really long, really satisfying days many, many times without assistance. As for the fun argument, I bet they are fun. But I bet poaching a flow trail on a riding mower is fun too. It just seems more like gimmicky fun rather than a decent new direction for the sport. "[The] production of too many useful things produces too large a useless population." Karl Marx, Human Requirements and Division of Labour, 1844.

Awesome! Cappadocia is such a mind-blowing place. Just please keep the riding to the park and developed trails and don't shred the irreplaceable cultural and geological wonders.