[pct-l] Horse encounter with illegal MTBs

[Brick Robbins]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Dan Jacobs <youroldpaldan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just so you know, you have no right to forcibly stop people to give them a
> lecture for riding a bicycle on a closed trail or to teach them proper
> etiquette. doing so may be a crime.

They have no right to run me over, or threaten to do so

To do so is assault, which IS a crime. To ride a bicycle on a closed
trail is also a crime. The difficulty is proving what happened, but
today that is not much of an issue. The GoPro or phone fixes that.

Those cyclists causing grave injury to the equestrians, and stock,
while riding on a closed trail is also a crime, and actionable in
civil court.

I have found that cyclists that ride illegally on closed trails
(poaching, as they call it) know what they are doing, and are already
carrying fear and anger. I'd like to be able to walk on a trail
without fear of being assaulted by a cyclist traveling at high speed.