"Blackblade" wrote in message ...
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Fine Ed, if you are presenting the overall big picture what,
overall, is the percentage of rides where conflict occurs ? Don't know
????

Edward Dolan wrote:

Nobody does - what an Asshole!

So, Arsehole, you AREN'T presenting the "overall big picture" then are you ? You don't know and are trying to pass off your opinions as fact. Go and get a clue before you make yourself look even more stupid.

I am presenting more of a picture than you are. You drag some stupid numbers into the discussion which mean absolutely nothing whereas I present a few real facts based on real stories. But to repeat myself, no one is presenting the big picture because it is not available. It is just that I am presenting a BETTER picture than you are with your ****ed-up data.

Miles traveled means nothing to me nor do any numbers of
injuries and deaths to mountain bikers. What matters to me is how bikes on
trails effect the mental attitudes of hikers. As usual you are always out to
lunch on anything and everything that truly matters.

You clearly don't understand that, as I keep saying, I don't care one iota about your opinions and what anything means to you. Unless you can justify your position objectively you might as well save your energy.

My opinion is that of all serious hikers. As for not giving a damn, I care absolutely nothing about your opinions since I consider they come from a scofflaw who is criminally promoting mountain biking and getting other poor innocent slobs killed as a result. You sir are beneath contempt.

Your mental attitude is not of the slightest concern to me and you have, so far, failed to provide me with any data that this view is anything other than a minority, fanatical sub-set of nutcases.

My mental attitude is that of all serious hikers. Your mental attitude is that of a small minority of extreme bikers who think nothing of risking life and limb. If only it were your own life and limb who would care, bur your promotion of mountain biking borders on being criminal because of how it effects others who do not know better. A man or woman in the prime of their lives goes mountain biking and ends up dead. They thought it was a safe thing to be doing. How do you explain that? Accidents will happen? You sir are beneath contempt.

Even so, my reports of
accidents, deaths and conflicts are all the information that any sane person
ever needs.

No, Ed, as I've patiently explained to you again and again when set against the millions of rides occurring they amount to practically nothing.

Even so, my reports of
accidents, deaths and conflicts are all the information that any sane person
ever needs. – Ed Dolan
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The overall picture is that bikes on trails ****es off hikers
for all the reasons that these threads have explained over and over.

You haven't shown that. You've shown that it ****es you off and a small set of fanatics. You've done nothing to show that it's the majority view amongst hikers - nor have you even bothered to try and find out.

It is the majority view among serious hikers, the only group that counts.

To reiterate, yet again, I don't give a damn about your fragile mental equilibrium given that you've shown yourself to be intolerant, selfish and illogical.

Unfortunately for you, my views are those of all serious hikers. Because I don’t want to put up with Asshole mountain bikers, I have a fragile mental equilibrium? Just the opposite of that. What I have is something you can only dream about – strong opinions on what is right and proper unaffected by what Asshole mountain bikers want. You don’t care if you destroy the enjoyment of others and you don’t care if other bikers injure or kill themselves doing what is inherently stupid. You sir are beneath contempt.

Go back and
read them from the beginning. Do not pay any attention to your remarks as they
are always off the issue. Read only my remarks. In fact, memorize them. That way
you will finally learn something worth knowing.

I will. I will learn that you show many signs of sociopathy, hubris and are probably on the ASD spectrum.

If I were an Asshole mountain biker like you, that is what I would have said too.

Or is all this too much for you ... and you would far prefer to
collude with the other monomaniacs and believe that mountainbikers are a major
issue afflicting the world ?

Mountain bikers on trails are a major issue effecting only
hikers and equestrians. If looks could kill, they would all be dead as soon as
encountered.

But, in the real world, they can't. All you've managed to show, in your many posts, is that you and a small cohort of fanatics don't like it. You've not posted anything that would lead a rational individual to conclude that it's the majority view.

The only minority view I know about is that of Asshole mountain bikers like you who think it is OK to transgress on hiking trails. Your ignorance is unconquerable. But it is your ****ing self-righteousness that really offends. You should strive to be humble and self-effacing like ME! Arrogance goeth before a fall!

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