I’ll put all my motorcycles in a pile and light them on fire before I “embraces these folks”
I'll say this and then cease...more than a few of these "folks" appear to be intoxicated and wearing sidearms. So I'll do my best to avoid them.
I don't mind the sidearms so much, but yeah, the intoxication really bothers me. We call em beer carts around here. And the trash they bring in and don't haul out. That one really pisses me off.
Nobody is defending bad behavior.
Pretty sure bad behavior isn’t limited to folks with 4 wheels.
These things are defined by operators, not machines.
My point was, smell the coffee. The peddlers. hikers and fake cowboys want everything for themselves. They don’t make distinction about wheel count.
Like it or not, the SxS community is going to be driving off road access into the future.
Cowboys, nope.
Peddlers, nope.
Off road MC, nope.
Hikers, lol.
Put all that in a pile and .gov is getting peanuts compared to the SxS community.
Doesn’t mean we have to like it, but it’s the reality. If .gov isn’t getting paid, the default is going to be zero access for anything powered.
I’m gonna do my part by promoting good trail behavior. Not hating the folks indirectly making my access possible.
Beyond that,
It must be different out west or something. All the this SxS “drama” everyone talks about never seems to be a thing at H&M where we ride.
My encounters have been nothing but positive. After 5yrs of sharing trail with SxS, getting a bike winched out, having cold water shared when we tapped out, the offer of the 12v tire pump in 85+ degrees and humidity, the offers to test mud lake depth for us, the local recommendations.
In literally 1000’s of trail miles since 17, I have not had ONE “hot encounter”. Not 1 instance of someone I suspected of being trail drunk. Not 1 instance where someone brandished a sidearm.
In WV...
I see things differently.