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Mountain Bikers as Wilderness/Conservation Advocates? No evidence so far!

Mountain bikers speak out against "their own" -  People need to wake up to the damage mountain biking wreaks on our natural areas and parkland.

http://www.thewildlifenews.com/2014/10/10/mo...

In the Wall Street Journal...

The Fight to Ride Electric Mountain Bikes on the Trail

Older Adventurers Tangle With Preservationists Over Battery-Aided Bicycles

http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-fight-to-ride-electric-mountain-bikes-on-the-tr...

“Unsanctioned trail building and rogue lines have been growing in the Park like an insidious mold.”

http://update.whistlerbike.com/2014/09/15/give-us-a-break-or-we-will-give-you-one/

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 "Guerrilla" MTBers are making monkeys out of everyone, even themselves...

Source: http://ep1.pinkbike.org/p4pb11125074/p4pb11125074.jpg

"The aggressive mountain bikin...

The insanity of appeasing wily mountain bikers never seems to end...<sigh>

Appeasement never works! It just opens a fine can of worms. Hikers, environmentalists, and others have already compromised away their ideals and rights to enjoyment of  our public forests --- and now, private property owners may end up ...

It is Election Time again for municipalities in BC…

Some pre-election glad handing going on…

Quote from a mountain biker on FB about the following photo op:

Sebastian M F: “Amazing to see the increased interest in the mountain bike community and the NSMBA - North Shore Mountain ...

Guest contribution:

http://www.thewildlifenews.com/2014/08/05/mountain-biking-impacts-on-bears-and-other-wildlife-by-brian-horesji/

Mountain biking impacts on bears and other wildlife by Brian Horejsi

By George Wuert...

In Northern Ontario, this year, near one of the so-called "BEST PLACES in Ontario to Mountain Bike" (the ironically-named, "Killbear Provincial Park"), a home near a well-used multi-use trail, including mountain biking, was attacked by a bear, in Nobel, Ontario --

Who does the BC Bike Race actually benefit? Our whole community? NOPE!

Now here is their dirty little "secret"... (so much of what mountain biking is about is "secret"!)

Not our community as a whole! --- Only benefitting the bike shops and bike organizations, while

Public land managers and politicians keep falling for the old mountain biking ruse that if mountain bikers were given legitimate trails to ride, they would stop their rogue trail building. The NSMBA has been doled out way more rewards from the District of North Vancouver, than many mountain biking organizations have in North America.

So has that stopped the mtb scofflaw rogue/secret mountain bike trail building? Nope!

How many trails is enough for mountain bikers? As many as they can get away with building, it seems.

The "tipping point" of mountain bike trail building has since long past, with numerous new trails being built, called reroutes, realignments, bypasses, refittings, connectors, etc. all year round on Mt. Fromme, LSCR and  Mt. Seymour (and recently, on Cypress). This is the stark reality of...

DNV's playing a dangerous game of Russian Roulette with Liability and Risk...

Bike crash victim settles with Blue Mountain

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/05/29/bike-crash-victim-settles-with-blue-mountain#

The final nail in the coffin, if this DNV parking lot deal goes through, as planned. You can actually view what the arrogance of over-entitlement looks like in the picture of the off-road "wheeled locust" wreckreationalists in  DNV's recent NS News ad, below:

Back in 2006, I already saw the "writing on the wall", but continued to "stay the course", coming to the point of recording the destructive after-effects of what actually happens when a scofflaw self-interest group is embraced by politicians and public land managers. Sadly, it hasn't changed the status quo of the mountain biking cult. The ecological vandalism continues, both "sanctioned" and illegal (unsanctioned/unauthorized).

Earlier on this blog, I wrote about David Suzuki becoming very cynical about the Environmental Movement:

"Environmentalism has Failed" ~Dr. David Suzuki

Now, another environmentalist has stepped forward, without hope for the movement...it is so sad, but they are j...

Other than the usual Bike Shops and the Bike industry who support the NSMBA's Trail Building vandalism (which is expected...) we have to ask ourselves what has happened to the common sense of many other corporations/businesses support of the NSMBA that are not "mountain biking related"?

http://www.th...

You sometimes have to scratch your head a bit to wonder how mountain bikers can possibly appreciate the natural environmentthey ride and build roughshod on. There is a clear disconnect somewhere...

But, sometimes one has to give credit where credit is due and this mtber did write a fairly nice piece on the History of  Fromme Mtn., etc. (from a mtber's point of view, of course.)  Here are the links (M...

The big land giveaway, in the name of two very opposite edicts, marches onwards to inevitable destruction: "Sustainable Growth" and "Wreckreational Growth" . Our many panderers, who we call politicians, pander to the developers and selfish interest groups (such as the NSMBA) whims to the point of ignorance.  We can only shake our head...

Sometimes, there is a "too 'good' to be true", story. This one is out of Australia. 

But, as the old proverb goes:

"Truth is stranger than Fiction."