"Monique Y. Mudama" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
Quoted message said:On 2004-10-11, JD penned:
Quoted message said:Unfortunately, good weather brings out the worst riders. The avoidance of
minor trail obstacles which widen the trails are the acts of people who
don't have the slightest clue as to what a mountain bike can do in the right
hands. I ride the Bookcliffs trails on a rigid singlespeed and can clean
anything out there with ease, which gives the ride-a-round set no excuse for
their misdeeds whatsoever. Apparently they missed the rules, "If you can't
ride it, walk it" and "Stay on the trail", which is posted all over the
trailheads around here, as well as being standard rules of tthe sport.
The funniest thing I saw this weekend was a group of West to East riders on
Moore Fun. We encountered this group near the Cave Switchback and all of
them walked most of what was above it (from the western apex) and those who
rolled up to it all dismounted and walked it. I really wanted to see how
they (or the trail) fared when they hit the comparitively difficult sections
on the East downhill. They had absolutely no business on a trail well marked
as Most Difficult with a big sign at the East gate and stated as such at all
of the trailhead kiosks. They had absolutely no business up there.
Maybe they had no business being there, but wouldn't you rather they walk a
section than ride around it?
What? Are you some kind of barney apologist? You have no idea what
this trail is like. There is no riding around anything on the most
technical parts. They were on a hike and I'd wager that they went
back to the Front Range and told all of their frieds how they
"conquered" Moore Fun. Bah!
Quoted message said:Trail difficulty ratings vary wildly, and they can't take into account that
some people are pretty good at some types of technical, but abysmal on others.
Let me reiterate what was written above: "They had absolutely no
business on a trail well marked as Most Difficult with a big sign at
the East gate and stated as such at all of the trailhead kiosks."
Quoted message said:Sometimes you just have to try a trail before you know whether you have any
business on there or not.
Never at the expense of the trail. These goobers were walking down a
comparatively rudimentary section after obviously having to push their
bikes almost all of the way up the West side of this trail. They
should have turned around no more than 100 yards in. They should have
turned around at the "Most Difficult" sign.
Quoted message said:And you definitely have to ride stuff beyond your
comfort zone to improve. (Though it sounds from your description like they
didn't even try to ride it.)
Never at the expense of the trail. These goobers were out for a hike,
nothing more. People who think they are faster or better riders than
they really are SUCK. They ruin trails, period.
JD
