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The San Antonio Festival
The inaugural San Antonio Festival takes places today from 10am to 5pm on Paseo de San Antonio between 1st and 2nd Street in Downtown San Jose. This is a key corridor that connects San Jose State ...
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A group of cyclists seen rest on a ridge in Plumas National Forest. Courtesy Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship
A recent decision by Tahoe National Forest and a proposal by the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit to open miles of mountain bike trails to Class 1 ebikes followed a two-year process that became contentious. (Class 1 ebikes provide pedal-assisted motor power and are limited to 20 mph.) Reporting that such bikes are already widely used on trails throughout the region, Tahoe Weekly's Sean McAlindin presents a thorough accounting of the process that led to this historic move—which is being monitored by land managers nationwide.
“As e-bikes explode in popularity, the phenomenon is moving faster than the laws and ethics that regulate it,” McAlindin writes. “The introduction of this new technology, along with a pandemic-propelled population surge in the Tahoe Sierra, have transformed the dynamics on the trails.”
Read “E-bike trail access expands” on Tahoe Weekly.
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