"Blackblade" wrote in message ...

And you're entitled to your viewpoint. I am similarly
entitled to disagree and completely ignore you. It's really nothing to do
with you.

Edward Dolan wrote:

I will not feel any sympathy for you when you end up paralyzed
from the neck down like that other idiot Christopher Reeves
(Superman).

I'm not asking you to. Why would I care ? I feel sorry for you; that you can't just enjoy your own activity and let others enjoy theirs.

Enjoy whatever risk taking you want, but not on MY (hiker and equestrian) trails.

Take your god damn ****ing risk taking (mountain biking)
anywhere except on my sacred trails!

They're not yours Ed.

They most certainly are not yours (bikers) who are Johnny come lately to trails. When I say MY trails I mean of course hiker and equestrian trails. Too bad I have to spell everything out for you as it must be boring in the extreme for others who might be following this thread.

Well, the alternative is fascism (or nanny stateism). Adults
are entitled to risk their own necks.

Stupid is as stupid does. Anyone who risks their necks for a
thrill is not an adult. Such an idiot is a juvenile.

Your opinion, you're welcome to it. It's wrong but ...

It will not be so wrong when you are laid up in bed unable to move because paralyzed. Just ask the ghost of Christopher Reeves if it was worth jumping a horse to end his life the way he did.

Stop ranting ... it doesn't get any more convincing for multiple
repeats.

Repetition is at the heart of all learning.

It's an element, true, but despite repeated trouncing of your premises you still aren't learning so what should we do with you ?

See my signature for enlightenment.

Better to be a sociopath who at least wants people to live out
their natural lives than a merchant of death like you who knowingly leads
cyclists to their deaths by promoting mountain biking on hiking
trails.

Better to actually go and do something and live your life ... and to not get so incredibly agitated that others want to live their lives differently.

You can live your life as differently as you want, but not on MY (hiker and equestrian) trails. Get your own g.d. trails.

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