"Blackblade" wrote in message ...

Yes, we disagree. But, unlike you, I've provided real
data from third party sources and you're provided ... zip, nada, bupkiss beyond
your own simple assertion.

Edward Dolan wrote:

Your "real data" stinks. I have provided many reports of
actual events in specific locations from various media.

You haven't provided anything ... you've simply referenced copy from journalists. That's not even trying to be objective and to discern a position ... it's simple reporting.

That is good enough for me ... and everyone else too - except you.

And, your point is what ? We've already done to death
the fact that trails have been put to many uses over the centuries. The
trails belong to people so use can change if people want it to.

It only matters what trails have been used for since the
establishment of the National Parks (late 1800's). Before that it doesn't matter
any more than the last 20 years or so doesn't matter (since the advent of
mountain biking). That is the status quo ante.

Use has changed over time .. and certainly over the last 20 years. Live with it.

It only changed in the very recent past. The status quo ante is what must be reacquired.
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All serious hikers think exactly like me.

I very very much doubt it Ed ... they're not all monomaniacal egomaniacs.

I prefer to hike by myself, but when I do occasionally hike with others, they agree with me. Bicycles do not belong on trails any more than motorcycles do.

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 biking!

“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