[pct-l] Important Message Re: bikes on the PCT

[Brick Robbins]

Dear PCT lovers:

As you can see from Zorglub messages, there is a very organized threat
to our trail from the MTB lobby.

They are already contacting individual board members, trying to
establish personal relationships that they hope will gain them support
from the PCTA to gain access to the PCT with their machines. I would
also assume that many of them are also joining the PCTA. It would not
surprise me if they started using fundraising efforts to win over the
organization.

I urge you to contact individual members of the Board of the PCTA, and
PCTA staff and express your opposition.

http://pcta.org/about_pcta/directors.asp


On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Zorglub <azorglub at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Commuting by bike is great, but that does not really address the anti mountain bike bias I see on this board.  It seems to me, and I'm sure all will disagree here, that the issue has to do with sharing more than anything else.  Hikers, and the few horse riders left over (from what I read earlier on another post) are used now to have the PCT to themselves and are not interesting in sharing.
>
> I'd like to remind everyone that the PCT is funded by the taxpayer and should be therefore not meant to be the exclusive use of any given group.  I don't see the USFS creating new trails exclusively for mountain bikers, so I really don't see why the PCT should be the exclusive use of hikers.
>
> In 12 + years of riding all over, I've never had one bad encounter with anybody.
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Brick Robbins <brick at brickrobbins.com>
> To: PCT <pct-l at backcountry.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 5:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] bikes on the PCT
>
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Craig Giffen <cg at lunky.com> wrote:
>>During my hike of the PCT in the mid 90's, I saw more illegal mountain bikes on the trail than I did horses...and no, they did not yield.  One came around a blind corner so fast he nearly hit me head on.  He apologized but I told him other hikers might not be as nice as I was.<
>
> And FWIW, I would like to point out that Craig exclusivity commutes by
> bicycle and does not own a car. I own a car, but only drive 1 day a
> week.
>
> If you look at Craigs website www.lunky.com you will see his "ride
> around Australia"
>
> Both of us are fiercely pro-bicycle, just not on the PCT
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