The Effects of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People -- Why Off-Road Bicycling Should be Prohibited

On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 22:10:31 GMT, Trekkie Dad
wrote:

This "article" was first posted to eight newsgroups in June 1997, and
has been repeated unchanged since then (see headers below):

Don't most other PhDs publish the same paper over and over and over
again?

Isn't one definition of insanity as being when someone repeats the
exact same thing over and over, but expects a different result each
time?

The guy hasn't had a single new thought on the topic in _seven_ years?

And is it still accurate to call mountain biking "new"?

In 1997 he called it "new", having gone mass market in 1984. Assuming
that is accurate, that would mean it was 13 years old as a mass
activity at that point. Now it is 20 years old. Is it still new?

I could list at least 6 other popular outdoor activities much newer
today than mountain biking was seven years ago. Are any of them more
harmful to the environment?

How many other statements in that article are similarly dated?

Instead of QED, Mikey should use SBO.

Happy trails,
Gary (net.yogi.bear)
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