Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 Fluke 8/7/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!microsoft!fluke!dbb From: dbb@fluke.UUCP (Dave Bartley) Newsgroups: net.bicycle Subject: Re: Mountain Bikes & The Environment Message-ID: <731@vax1.fluke.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 11:41:28 EDT Article-I.D.: vax1.731 Posted: Thu Sep 20 11:41:28 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 01:38:56 EDT References: <173@oliveb.UUCP> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA Lines: 13 At a local (Puget Sound Group) Sierra Club Wilderness Committee meeting earlier this week, I happened to bring up the question since mountain bikes look like fun and a good means of handling long, flat approach trails with none of the obnoxious noise and smoke their motorized cousins emit. The answer I got was the bikes should be barred from Wilderness Areas. The answer isn't quite as definite in other National Forest-adminstrated land. The bikes are new enough that I think the issue hasn't been completely thought out. -- Dave Bartley UUCP: {decvax,ihnp4}!uw-beaver! John Fluke Mfg Co. allegra! fluke!dbb Everett, WA USA {ucbvax,hplabs}!lbl-csam!