"Blackblade" wrote in message ...

Ah, you believe that do you ? Like you believed that there
were thousands of hiker/biker collisions but, in reality, there weren't.
Your beliefs, right now, have very little credibility. I suggest you
either backup your beliefs with objective facts or avoid making statements that
you have to later retract.

Edward Dolan wrote:

I never need to retract anything. However, I find that I do
have to expand on everything because you lack the mentality to comprehend the
simplest things. It must be hell to have to go thru life so literally minded.
You are unable to make connections. Talking to you is like talking to a
simpleton who has to have everything explained in detail.

The only person who never gets anything wrong is the person who does nothing ! You claimed, many times, thousands of collisions. There aren't and you couldn't produce any data to backup your claim. That's not being literally minded, it's calling you on spouting rubbish.

99% of collisions and close calls never get any mass publicity unless someone is killed. I am going by reports from various email lists that I am receiving daily. That in fact is what this thread is about. The only one spouting rubbish here is you. Get on something important or get lost!

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