always looking to be popular.....Re: [at-l] GPS & misc.

--- Dawn Stringer <stringdm@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I don't know if he was going to pass me, had I not
> moved, or if he was going to run me right over.  I just stepped back and
> scratched my head for a while... Don't know what's wrong with those
> people.> belcher

> >From: Ramkitten@aol.com
> > Anyhoo...I was nearly run over by mountain bikers in Pa, too

### I must say that all of this poor behavior really bums me out, because
I am sympathetic to ALL forms of self-propelled travel, including bicycles
on trails. Long before "bicycle moto-cross", I pedaled a two-wheeler into
all KINDS of interesting places, sometimes with a fly rod strapped to the
frame, sometimes just for "bmx" kicks. And I suffered mightily for my
adventures, too -- broken bones, dual bleeding scapulas (sounds like a
rock group), etc, etc. Rode from Milford, Connecticut to New Milford,
Connecticut once, up US8, then rode on trails around a horse show, then
rode back to Milford; long day (a hundred miles?), but I was a P-O-ed
teenager of 16.

I know this won't make me popular at school but, I'd love to take a bike
out on a trail again, even the AT. I think we hikers are loosing brethren
by excluding our seated self-propelled compatriots.

Sloetoe
(well, now mostly inactive
trail builder/maintainer)


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T.Roosevelt 4/23/10

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