"Blackblade" wrote in message ...

I'm the one who is willing to compromise based on
circumstances. You're the one who can't even countenance a bike on the
same trail as you in case it disturbs your, clearly fragile, equilibrium.

Edward Dolan wrote:

Your "circumstances" don't interest me. The fact is that there
is an irreconcilable conflict based on what the different modes of usage are
DOING on the trails. The only compromise I am willing to make is that cyclists
get their own trails far removed from any hiking trails.

Well, fortunately, more reasonable people than you prevail and look at the circumstances and whether trails should be shared or not. As I have pointed out before, if you want to ban recreation then you also need to ban trail running ... good luck with that.

Yes, trail running on trails should also be banned as it too is an irreconcilable use based on purpose. Runners can run on race tracks. That is what they are there for. And bikers can ride on roads. That is what they are there for.

Mountain bikers are barbarians and have no right to be on any trail used by hikers – unless they want to get off their god damn ****ing bikes and walk like everyone else. When they crash and injure themselves, I rejoice! If and when they manage to kill themselves, I say good riddance to bad rubbish! Death to mountain bikers!

“Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.”
~ Christina Rossetti (Psalm 24),
from "A Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets"

Mountain bikes have wheels. Wheels are for roads.

Trails are for walking. What’s the matter? Can’t walk?

Ed Dolan the Great
aka
Saint Edward the Great