Originally posted by DSettahr
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Just pointing out that there are examples where people have traversed long stretches of the world on bikes, and it happened before suspension forks and GPS, and hydraulic brakes, etc.
I'm in agreement that over 'managing' wilderness is an odd thing. A contradiction. But you can take the human out of the city and town - but you can never take the human nature out of the human - so we end up with pages and pages or regs and rules. And we live in a world where from 'wilderness' I can text via cell phone (in some cases making use of a satellite that required a rocket to put into orbit and the brute force of the military industrial complex to make happen and sustain) while cooking over a canister stove imported from Japan on Ti cookware sitting in a shelter made of the lightest waterproof materials available... While I wait out some weather so I can paddle my Kevlar boat across a pond to take wildlife pictures with my digital camera and then come back here and write all about it....
That's all ok in 'wilderness'. But a bike is not.
And I agree that they houldn't be allowed everywhere... Just like there are places that we shouldn't develop trails and parking lots and etc.
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