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Congratulations, Mike V.
SMS aka Steven M. Scharf wrote:
Anthony DeLorenzo wrote: Hey Mike, Wow, I just checked the archives. Your first anti-mountain bike posting was August 31, 1996. You're coming up on 12 years now. Congrats! Twelve years and tens of thousands of posts. Even though mountain biking has continued to grow year after year, don't get discouraged. Some would call that 12 years of futility, but I would call it 12 years of fighting the good fight. Keep at it man! What's helped mountain biking continue to grow is education and research studies. Once it was determined that mountain biking had no more trail impact than hiking, the debate changed from impact on the trails to impact on other trail users. It's understandable that hikers are upset by the few irresponsible mountain bikers, but conversely it's often the hikers that are irresponsible as well, but hiking in large groups, and leaving behind their litter. By far the worst non-motorized offender for trail damage is the horse. Deep hoof prints and manure all over the place. -- Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia The weather is here, wish you were beautiful |
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Congratulations, Mike V.
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:35:31 -0700, SMS
wrote: Anthony DeLorenzo wrote: Hey Mike, Wow, I just checked the archives. Your first anti-mountain bike posting was August 31, 1996. You're coming up on 12 years now. Congrats! Twelve years and tens of thousands of posts. Even though mountain biking has continued to grow year after year, don't get discouraged. Some would call that 12 years of futility, but I would call it 12 years of fighting the good fight. Keep at it man! What's helped mountain biking continue to grow is education and research studies. Once it was determined that mountain biking had no more trail impact than hiking, BS. I refuted all those bogus "studies": http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande/scb7. the debate changed from impact on the trails to impact on other trail users. It's understandable that hikers are upset by the few irresponsible mountain bikers, It's not "a few", but THOUSANDS! but conversely it's often the hikers that are irresponsible as well, but hiking in large groups, and leaving behind their litter. -- I am working on creating wildlife habitat that is off-limits to humans ("pure habitat"). Want to help? (I spent the previous 8 years fighting auto dependence and road construction.) Please don't put a cell phone next to any part of your body that you are fond of! http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande |
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