It's creeping fascism, along with national identity cards and video cameras on every corner. There is no need to license and or tax cyclists. Compared to the lethality of a poorly driven car, bikes are nothing. Nor do they do much road damage either. As far as off road trails go, we shouldn't have to pay fees for public lands at all. If the current level of taxation isn't enough to support free access to our national heritage, then take some of that money away from the military/industrial complex or the tax breaks to big business. On the other hand, if an individual or group wants to buy land, build trails, and charge access, then I say, hooray! Go for it. (If it weren't for the boyscouts, who charge $5 to ride on the trails at Tamarancho in Marin County, California, there wouldn't be ANY decent single track in this supposed birthplace of mountain biking).