"Blackblade" wrote in message ...

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.

So something from a journalist who is simply filing a report, ideally one that will be sufficiently sensational to attract interest, is suddenly more valuable in determining what is occurring overall than that from an unbiased researcher actually trying to do objective research and discover the real position ? I despair of your logic.

Your data is irrelevant because, like all social data, it includes too many unknown variables. My reports are to the point and are numerous enough and widespread enough to indicate a general condition prevailing. Social data is hardly ever scientific. Counting when you do not know what you are counting is for morons.

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.

No Ed, things move forward ... not back.

Actually, most things just go round and round, never any progress being made.

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.

So, I reiterate, you meet next to no-one so how is that supposed to be representative of a population of tens or hundreds of millions worldwide ?

You're fully entitled to your opinion ... but you cannot assume that this is commonly shared.

We all make assumptions about everything all the time. It is what we humans do best. Personal experience is highly limited and is only of value if we can make assumptions about it.

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