E-Moto Rider Calls Park Rangers "Karens", Returns To Trail They Told Him To Leave
Since Surron electric dirt bikes have grown in popularity, there has been an epidemic of them poaching mountain bike trails on them. Often when confronted, they call people out the people questioning them as “Karens.”
Serial bike trail poacher Volted Adventures is a frequent user of this tactic. Watch him ride a trail while talking about “Karens” below.
The reason Volted made this video was because a month ago, he was stymied by park rangers as he went into the hills of Los Angeles on his Surron. Responding to comments saying he was breaking rules, Volted said that he was only riding fire roads and condescendingly explained the concept of a road.
Read about his prior run-in that he was referencing below.
Related: Park Ranger Blocks Trail From E-Moto Riders: "You Can't Ride Those Up Here"
The thing is, however, Volted Adventures does not just ride fire roads. There have been multiple instances where he has recorded himself dropping into single-track trails where motos were not permitted.
Moreover, on the ride where he had the run-in with Park Rangers, he poached a mountain bike-only trail. Though he had an interaction with Rangers on the Portor Hill Fire Road, which allows moto use, he appeared to be on the way up to Ajax, a bike-only trail. Additionally, when he turned around to go down, he took a left and rode down Middle Silde, another bike-only trail, to get down to Brown Canyon Road.
Getting on a high horse to say you never poach mountain bike trails, and that mountain bikers are entitled does not hold up when you frequently break the rules.
Though his recent video featured only fire road riding, the video ends with Volted exploring a missile silo at the top of the hill. He still needed to get back down. It seems he was smart enough to end the video before descending in case he possibly contradicted himself and ridden a trail that did not, in fact, allow motorcycles.
It is a neat trick to say you never rode an illegal trail by only showing evidence of riding the fire road up. Riders in places where rangers give tickets should try that one.
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