Mountain Bikers Are Destroying Colorado!



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Mike Vandeman

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From: a hiker/equestrian
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:38:36 EDT
Subject: Re: Mountain Bikers Sacrifice Trees to Build Their Trails

I find this truly disgusting. I have just come back from Colorado Springs
where I walk in a wild park behind my parents house. Colorado foolishly allowed
mountain biking and is paying a huge price for it. The Park I walked a year
ago has three times the amount of illegal single track trails than it had last
year, and the erosion is devastating. Also the tire tracks have cut into the
ancient sandstone formations, a damage that can never be repaired. These
formations are 60 million years old, and are now scarred and worn in one year.

There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off cliffs.
Awful.

===
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.)

http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande
 
>
> There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off
> cliffs. Awful.
>
It's that damn "whooping and hollering" that'll be the demise of the sport,
I'm sure.

Tom
 
You have to love him don't you! He's like a cousin you only see on weddings
and funerals and sits in the corner all alone wearing grannies special
knitted sweater. Then secretly hides in the toilet with a Wal-Mart catalogue
and some **** paper. Which one he looks at is unknown at this time.
Kent
"Mike Vandeman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> From: a hiker/equestrian
> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:38:36 EDT
> Subject: Re: Mountain Bikers Sacrifice Trees to Build Their Trails
>
> I find this truly disgusting. I have just come back from Colorado Springs
> where I walk in a wild park behind my parents house. Colorado foolishly
allowed
> mountain biking and is paying a huge price for it. The Park I walked a
year
> ago has three times the amount of illegal single track trails than it had
last
> year, and the erosion is devastating. Also the tire tracks have cut into
the
> ancient sandstone formations, a damage that can never be repaired. These
> formations are 60 million years old, and are now scarred and worn in one
year.
>
> There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off
cliffs.
> Awful.
>
> ===
> 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.)
>
> http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande
 
Mike Vandeman wrote:
> From: a hiker/equestrian
> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:38:36 EDT
> Subject: Re: Mountain Bikers Sacrifice Trees to Build Their Trails
>
> The Park I walked a year ago has three times the amount of ... single track trails than it had last
> year.
> There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off cliffs.

Wahhooooo!!!

Sounds great!!!!!

Where abouts is it exactly?
 
> From: a hiker/equestrian
> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:38:36 EDT
> Subject: Re: Mountain Bikers Sacrifice Trees to Build Their Trails
>
> I find this truly disgusting. I have just come back from Colorado Springs
> where I walk in a wild park behind my parents house. Colorado foolishly
allowed
> mountain biking and is paying a huge price for it. The Park I walked a
year
> ago has three times the amount of illegal single track trails than it had
last
> year, and the erosion is devastating. Also the tire tracks have cut into
the
> ancient sandstone formations, a damage that can never be repaired. These
> formations are 60 million years old, and are now scarred and worn in one
year.
>
> There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off
cliffs.
> Awful.

Colorado is awful anyway. Let them have it. Maybe they'll leave better
places alone.

Em
 
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 22:22:07 +0000, Mike Vandeman wrote:

> There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off cliffs.
> Awful.

All right then. Let's give them prozac, a few sedatives, and some fried
chicken. That way, they can be dead druggies, but at least they'll be
quiet.

Good lord, I *want* my kids to be whooping and hollering. I don't know
about the leaping off cliffs part... But that sounds like normal activity
for kids and young people.

--Kamus

--
o |
o__ >[] | A roadie who doesn't ride a mountain bike has no soul.
,>/'_ /\ | But then a mountain biker who doesn't ride a road bike has no legs...
(_)\(_) \ \ | -Doug Taylor, alt.mountain-bike
 

> There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off
cliffs.
> Awful.
>
> ===
> 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.)
>
> http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande

So, idiot environmentalist have already destroyed California.
 
what a brilliant discussion this is. do you really think that
environmentalists have destroyed california? take a trip to w. virginia or
better yet pittsburgh or the shore of lake ontario where there are no
environmentalists. have you ever been to mexico?

"di" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:Hw2Ec.22650$wS2.885@okepread03...
>
> > There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off
> cliffs.
> > Awful.
> >
> > ===
> > 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.)
> >
> > http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande
>
> So, idiot environmentalist have already destroyed California.
>
>
 
Mike Vandeman wrote:
> From: a hiker/equestrian
> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:38:36 EDT
> Subject: Re: Mountain Bikers Sacrifice Trees to Build Their Trails
>
> I find this truly disgusting. I have just come back from Colorado Springs
> where I walk in a wild park behind my parents house. Colorado foolishly allowed
> mountain biking and is paying a huge price for it. The Park I walked a year
> ago has three times the amount of illegal single track trails than it had last
> year, and the erosion is devastating. Also the tire tracks have cut into the
> ancient sandstone formations, a damage that can never be repaired. These
> formations are 60 million years old, and are now scarred and worn in one year.
>
> There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off cliffs.
> Awful.
>
> ===
> 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.)
>
> http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande
IT"S NOT A "WILD PARK" IT'S CALLED "OPEN SPACE PARK".
Which is just a new way of calling a city park something PC.

What about all the houses being built practically IN THE PARK?
IS THAT YOUR HOUSE? I HOPE IT BURNS DOWN THE NEXT TIME WE HAVE A GOOD
FOREST FIRE!
I guess it's OK for your parents to build a house next to the park,
but not OK for me to ride my bike there? Gee thanks Mike!
 
Burn Baby Burn, but never clear out some of the brush that would keep your
property from burning


"Alan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> what a brilliant discussion this is. do you really think that
> environmentalists have destroyed california? take a trip to w. virginia or
> better yet pittsburgh or the shore of lake ontario where there are no
> environmentalists. have you ever been to mexico?
>
> "di" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:Hw2Ec.22650$wS2.885@okepread03...
> >
> > > There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off
> > cliffs.
> > > Awful.
> > >
> > > ===
> > > 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.)
> > >
> > > http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande
> >
> > So, idiot environmentalist have already destroyed California.
> >
> >
>
>
 
Disco Stu <stu@springfield_dance_studio.com> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Mike Vandeman wrote:
> > From: a hiker/equestrian
> > Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:38:36 EDT
> > Subject: Re: Mountain Bikers Sacrifice Trees to Build Their Trails
> >
> > The Park I walked a year ago has three times the amount of ... single track trails than it had last
> > year.
> > There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off cliffs.
>
> Wahhooooo!!!
>
> Sounds great!!!!!
>
> Where abouts is it exactly?

YEEEEHAAAAH! BOOOOOOOOYAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! YIPEEEEEEEEE!

/SSSSS
 
"Alan" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> what a brilliant discussion this is. do you really think that
> environmentalists have destroyed california? take a trip to w. virginia or
> better yet pittsburgh or the shore of lake ontario where there are no
> environmentalists. have you ever been to mexico?


Please attend the Pittsburgh Enviromental Teaching Workshop
this July 12th thru 16th.

To claim there are no enviromentalists in these areas
is absurd.
 
On 29 Jun 2004 12:49:03 -0700, [email protected] (R.White) wrote:

>"Alan" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
>> what a brilliant discussion this is. do you really think that
>> environmentalists have destroyed california? take a trip to w. virginia or
>> better yet pittsburgh or the shore of lake ontario where there are no
>> environmentalists. have you ever been to mexico?
>
>Please attend the Pittsburgh Enviromental Teaching Workshop
>this July 12th thru 16th.
>
>To claim there are no enviromentalists in these areas
>is absurd.

If they don't make him the keynote speaker, and immediately adopt all
of his views 100%, he will attack them and call them names.

Happy trails,
Gary (net.yogi.bear)
------------------------------------------------
at the 51st percentile of ursine intelligence

Gary D. Schwartz, Needham, MA, USA
Please reply to: garyDOTschwartzATpoboxDOTcom
 
That's right Mike. We have plans to DESTROY the entire US, State by
State. By the time we have finished there will be nothing left. No
houses, no roadways, no rocks and no flowers - not even a single blade
of grass will remain standing. If we see a tree we will DESTROY it to
make picnic tables for trials riders, but it won't be long before we
DESTROY the picnic tables to use the wood to make make signs for the XC
trails, but even they will be consumed as millions of downhillers SMASH
them as they 'whoop and yahoo' while leaping off cliffs.

Colorado is just the beginning, but once we have turned the entire state
into one giant mountian bike park, we will move on to New Mexico (we
already have agents promoting State support of our hobby - check
http://www.newmexico.org/go/loc/outdoors/page/outdoors-biking.html).
And don't just think we be satisified when the entire US is DESTROYED.
Canada, Mexico and Cuba will be DESTROYED. We will drain swamps and
wetlands to make giant dirt jump tracks. Soon, we will have complete
control of the entire Americas.

You can't stop us Mike, despite claiming in your website one of your
current interests is "Fighting Mountain Biking", you can't win. There
are millions of us and we are well organized.
 
Disco Stu wrote:
> That's right Mike. We have plans to DESTROY the entire US, State by
> State. By the time we have finished there will be nothing left. No
> houses, no roadways, no rocks and no flowers - not even a single
> blade of grass will remain standing. If we see a tree we will
> DESTROY it to make picnic tables for trials riders, but it won't be
> long before we DESTROY the picnic tables to use the wood to make make
> signs for the XC trails, but even they will be consumed as millions
> of downhillers SMASH them as they 'whoop and yahoo' while leaping off
> cliffs.
>
> Colorado is just the beginning, but once we have turned the entire
> state into one giant mountian bike park, we will move on to New
> Mexico (we already have agents promoting State support of our hobby -
> check
> http://www.newmexico.org/go/loc/outdoors/page/outdoors-biking.html).
> And don't just think we be satisified when the entire US is
> DESTROYED. Canada, Mexico and Cuba will be DESTROYED. We will drain
> swamps and wetlands to make giant dirt jump tracks. Soon, we will
> have complete control of the entire Americas.
>
> You can't stop us Mike, despite claiming in your website one of your
> current interests is "Fighting Mountain Biking", you can't win. There
> are millions of us and we are well organized.

I wonder if "Disco Stu" is now on file at Homeland Security?!?

Bill "false mustache" S.
 
S o r n i wrote:
> Disco Stu wrote:
>
>>That's right Mike. We have plans to DESTROY the entire US, State by
>>State.
>
> I wonder if "Disco Stu" is now on file at Homeland Security?!?
>
> Bill "false mustache" S.
>
>

Either that, or G W Bush wants to make me a spokesperson for his
environmental policy.

He is a mountain biker after all.
 
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:22:00 +1200, Disco Stu <stu@springfield_dance_studio.com>
wrote:

..S o r n i wrote:
..> Disco Stu wrote:
..>
..>>That's right Mike. We have plans to DESTROY the entire US, State by
..>>State.
..>
..> I wonder if "Disco Stu" is now on file at Homeland Security?!?
..>
..> Bill "false mustache" S.
..>
..>
..
..Either that, or G W Bush wants to make me a spokesperson for his
..environmental policy.
..
..He is a mountain biker after all.

Proving that mountain bikers are ALL liars. Every last one. QED
===
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.)

http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande
 
"Gary S." <Idontwantspam@net> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On 29 Jun 2004 12:49:03 -0700, [email protected] (R.White) wrote:
>
> >"Alan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:<[email protected]>...
> >> what a brilliant discussion this is. do you really think that
> >> environmentalists have destroyed california? take a trip to w. virginia
or
> >> better yet pittsburgh or the shore of lake ontario where there are no
> >> environmentalists. have you ever been to mexico?
> >
> >Please attend the Pittsburgh Enviromental Teaching Workshop
> >this July 12th thru 16th.
> >
> >To claim there are no enviromentalists in these areas
> >is absurd.
>
> If they don't make him the keynote speaker, and immediately adopt all
> of his views 100%, he will attack them and call them names.
>
> Happy trails,
> Gary (net.yogi.bear)

Wait, are you talking about MV?

cc
 
"Mike Vandeman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:22:00 +1200, Disco Stu
<stu@springfield_dance_studio.com>
> wrote:
>
> .S o r n i wrote:
> .> Disco Stu wrote:
> .>
> .>>That's right Mike. We have plans to DESTROY the entire US, State by
> .>>State.
> .>
> .> I wonder if "Disco Stu" is now on file at Homeland Security?!?
> .>
> .> Bill "false mustache" S.
> .>
> .>
> .
> .Either that, or G W Bush wants to make me a spokesperson for his
> .environmental policy.
> .
> .He is a mountain biker after all.
>
> Proving that mountain bikers are ALL liars. Every last one. QED

Mike, you've taken your cheap shots, but can you please not bastardize QED?
In my mind, I like to separate you from the academic community. Can you not
ruin that for me?

Thanks,
cc
 
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:58:20 -0700, "cc" <[email protected]> wrote:

>"Gary S." <Idontwantspam@net> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> On 29 Jun 2004 12:49:03 -0700, [email protected] (R.White) wrote:
>>
>> >"Alan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:<[email protected]>...
>> >> what a brilliant discussion this is. do you really think that
>> >> environmentalists have destroyed california? take a trip to w. virginia
>or
>> >> better yet pittsburgh or the shore of lake ontario where there are no
>> >> environmentalists. have you ever been to mexico?
>> >
>> >Please attend the Pittsburgh Enviromental Teaching Workshop
>> >this July 12th thru 16th.
>> >
>> >To claim there are no enviromentalists in these areas
>> >is absurd.
>>
>> If they don't make him the keynote speaker, and immediately adopt all
>> of his views 100%, he will attack them and call them names.
>>
>> Happy trails,
>> Gary (net.yogi.bear)
>
>Wait, are you talking about MV?
>
He does claim to speak at all sorts of environmental conferences, and
uses that to bolster his self-perceived prestige.

It would be interesting to hear him give a paper, to see if his
speaking style matches his online style, and how it is received.

I would like to see how good I am at keeping a straight face.

Happy trails,
Gary (net.yogi.bear)
------------------------------------------------
at the 51st percentile of ursine intelligence

Gary D. Schwartz, Needham, MA, USA
Please reply to: garyDOTschwartzATpoboxDOTcom
 
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