|   Help save me local trails. Just have to send an email | joejoe
Jan 20, 2003 9:26 PM | | More and more trails are getting closed by me. So I need your help with this I am asking you to copy and paste a short memo that I attache an email to info@imba.com and adress it Palos Area Trails. Memo-
Dear Imba
With the very little trails that mountian bikers are allowed to ride. It is becomming more difficult to find trail that are fun to ride but not illegal to ride. I can't afford to ride a trail and get tickited every time I go on it. So please keep the trails open. This area has very few things that are enjoyable as to mountian bike. Please dont take it away. A good idea to help the trails is to go to the local bike shops and talk to them about recruiting people to help mantian existing trails and to make new ones, and host events to support the trails.
Thank You for time
Please leave a post saying that you sent an email |
| bro, you have trouble | Standing Bear
Jan 20, 2003 9:54 PM | | First off, forget about IMBA. They are a waste of your time and energies. You would be better off sending that letter to "Dear Santa" than to the brain trust in Colorado. IMBA isn't a mountain bike "advocacy" organization but rather, a trail building organization and trail building resource. As their agreement with Wilderness advocates shows, they aren't in it to help keep mountain biking alive, at all.
A few questions:
Where are you located?
What is your local club?
Have you talked directly with the land manager to find out what the issues are and why the closures? |
| IMBA is your ticket | meimine
Jan 21, 2003 10:32 AM | | Again, Standing Bear does not know what he is talking about. He would rather see IMBA become a Blue Ribbon Coalition clone and when that does not happen, he continually slams IMBA despite its long proven history of promoting bike trail access.
Contact you state IMBA rep and they can provide you with extensive resources for how to prevent trail closures. But if you prefer, you can listen to the political diatribe of Standing Bear and his irrelevant political nonsense. But I assume you actually want to preserve trail access, correct? I suggest going to the best mtb advocacy organization out there: IMBA. |
| IMBA is your ticket to hades | Standing Bear
Jan 21, 2003 6:22 PM | | Funny, meimine, I would rather it become a clone of the BRC than of the Sierra Club which is the direction they are taking. And we all know that the Sierra Club (and its' clones) are doing everything in thier power to eliminate mountain biking as a sport...
If you are so hip on issues, care to explain what went down in Boulder this weekend and justify THAT?
When you get up to speed on issues of the 17,000 member (and shrinking) organization that is selling your trail access up a river, give me a call. |
| So tell us... what DID go down in Boulder this weekend? | Frolics With Bunnies
Jan 21, 2003 8:53 PM | | I assume they had a big MLK Day anti-war protest, but that topic has been done to death here. What big IMBA-related, MTB-related event happened? Do tell.
And even if IMBA is as spineless and impotent as you seem to imply, why in the phuckin world would you prefer to support the Blue Ribbon Coalition (ATVs and ORVs everywhere) instead of the Sierra Club? What is your major malfunction?
By the way, the original post was a parody of an earlier one, I'm pretty sure. Fwooosh, right over your head. |
| It will all be made public soon enough (nm) | Standing Bear
Jan 21, 2003 8:59 PM | | ...and it isn't good. |
| What... your major malfunction? | Frolics With Bunnies
Jan 21, 2003 9:22 PM | | As a pseudo spokesman for the Warriors, you're ripping holes in their credibility by making BRC-friendly statements like that.
If you're so ready to shoot off your mouth, then why won't you tell us what IMBA did right now? You don't want to steal their thunder or something? |
| Don't have one, gonzostrokes. | Standing Bear
Jan 21, 2003 9:32 PM | | Well, I figure if you don't have a clue, then you don't have a clue (which I knew already).
Go take your ramps and play with your logging buddies, Kaczynski. |
| screwed.....more | Standing Bear
Jan 20, 2003 10:20 PM | | If you are located in the Chicago suburb of Palos then this club may fit your needs. From thier website:
"CAMBR's mission is to promote responsible trail use, to prevent trail closings, and to maintain unpaved trails for bicycling in the Chicago area. CAMBR also seeks to promote trail bicycling opportunities through stewardship, environmental and social responsibility, education, and a spirit of cooperation among all trail users, the conservation community, and governing bodies."
http://www.cambr.org/
or try here:
http://www.bikelib.org/
Good luck. |
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