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When teenagers tease Bruce Austin for powering up a mountain trail on his electric mountain bike, his comeback is: “Didn’t you hear California passed a law that people 70 or older can ride an e-bike?”

“Their attitude instantly changes from, ‘you’re cheating’ to ‘good for you, dude’,” jokes the 70-year-old. Mr. Austin, a semiretired film cameraman who has worked with Disney, TBS, and Twentieth Century Fox, took up mountain biking in his mid-30s. When he started a family, he kept in shape by pedaling after his children.