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Aside from the obvious personal risks of mountain biking (falling, personal injury) some usually unauthorized mountain bike trails can absolutely do damage to f
by recursive 5y ago
Aside from the obvious personal risks of mountain biking (falling, personal injury) some usually unauthorized mountain bike trails can absolutely do damage to forests and ecosystems, based on bike traffic an erosion. I haven't heard about destroying a road, but there doesn't seem to be a very good reason to pick that as the specific line for acceptability. I don't think destroying roads is generally acceptable, but we also don't know if there's an actual risk of that happening in this case.
- eternityforest 5y agoMountain biking is well known for being an unwanted presence. It makes hiking trails into miserable obstacle courses. Made worse by the fact that if it's allowed at all, people will go as fast as they want, it's not like there's radar traps set up. I'm in favor of majorly reducing all hobbies that have danger or inconvenience to others. If you can't play 110DB music in the streets at night, there's clearly a general precedent and consensus that your hobby is not anything special and has no right to be a public nuisance or environmental disaster.
- rdtwo 5y agoCan we ban Bluetooth speakers in the wilderness too. I really hate that shit on the trail
- eternityforest 5y agoPretty sure animals that live there also hate it. Literally everyone except the one person with the Bluetooth hates that shit. It's usually terrible sound quality just to make it even worse.
- Jeff_Brown 5y ago+1. How numb do you have to be to want to bring the city with you when you visit nature.
- TrevorJ 5y agoEspecially considering that you can get Bluetooth headphones for 20 bucks