Originally Posted by CB HI

When ridding properly, mountain bikes cause less trail damage than hikers and far less damage than horses. Hawaii has some trails that people blamed mountain bikers for damaging, they closed the trails to mountain bikers but the trail damage has continued after several years with just hiking on the trail.

I grew up in Colorado and did extensive back packing long before mountain bikes came along. I saw the same trail damage then, that is now being blamed on mountain bikers today.

I see far more mountain bikers doing trail maintenance than I see hikers.