The Joys & Pleasures of Cycling on Trails

"Blackblade" wrote in message ...

You've heard from him ... he's concerned about four-wheel drivers,
motorcycle riders, prospectors, hunters and fishermen. I don't see
mountainbikers in that list ... probably because they have about the same impact
as hikers.

Edward Dolan wrote:

I believe he is indeed including cyclists elsewhere in his
report. We do not want wheeled vehicles of any sort on hiking
trails.

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.

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.

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