Thank you gonesh. While I am far from a hippie (actually a concervative) my views on environment are very hippyish. If you took a look at whistler 15 years ago it was a pure hippy town to be one with the environment. Hippies don't hate mountain biking at all. Only ignorant environmentalists.

Mtbers are lumped in with the skater/bmx crowd which in and of itself is judged wrong. But that is where we lie in the publics view