Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!qumix!amd!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.bicycle Subject: Re: Mountain bikes and the environment Message-ID: <856@opus.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 20:21:49 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.856 Posted: Mon Oct 1 20:21:49 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 07:04:00 EDT References: <245@varian.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 18 On two issues people have raised: Mountain bikes traveling too fast--if someone were going so fast as to be a hazard, I could probably find it in my heart, as a hiker, to hold out an arm or a walking stick and give them the choice of slowing down abruptly or crashing. I try to be equitable about such things--I'd do the same for a fast-moving bike on a sidewalk in the city. Noisy mountain bikes--this probably ought to get the same sort of a response as a noisy hiker/camper. (Haven't you ever run across someone obnoxious enough to play a boom box in the woods?) So far, I'm still in agreement with whoever said "take them on a case-by-case basis." -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Relax...don't worry...have a homebrew.