Originally Posted by justsomeguy
That's an incredibly myopic claim.
There are many areas where riding on wet trails is the norm. If people didin't ride when the trails are wet they would only ride a few months of the year.
There are also areas where riding on wet trails doesn't create "a lot of impact."
Generalizations suck.
Yes people who care about our sports reputation and the environment definetly suck
If your riding on private land thats one thing, but when its public lands you should tread lightly.
We would not have half the legal trails we have in my area if we didnt follow the rules and promote proper trail usage.
A group called CAMBR here in chicago worked with the forest commissioners and reached a happy medium. The Forest commissioners would enjoy if no bikes ever touched the preserves. Yet obviously not many other people would like that. So CAMBR formed and came to an agreement that they would maintain the trails, promote proper trail usage, and remove foreign vegitation within a distance from our trails.
Now there are places where riding when its wet doesn't contribute much to erosion, but thats mainly the multi-track. But remember that if you dont care that your causing erosion, why should anyone...then imagine the destruction that would be caused.