On Feb 25, 12:13�pm, Rob Kleinschmidt <Rkleinsch1216....RemoveThis@aol.com>
wrote:
> I spent a good ten years chasing various dirt bikers,
> cyclists and joggers off the private road that we lived
> on and generally try to respect the property rights of
> the owner.
I certainly believe in respecting landowners' rights, and I don't go
squirreling up and down dirt roads or scar up hillsides trying to
climb hills over and over again.
My idea of dual sport is to use backroads to see scenery that is off
the beaten track.
I'm a low impact rider.
Unfortunately, the inherent nature of motorcycle riding for the last
century has been to prove that some particular brand is better than
the rest, or for a rider to prove that he can ride his motorcycle over
some impossible terrain.
And this did not set well with property owners back in the late
1960's, when every vacant lot in California seemed to have a kid on a
Hodaka ring-dinging back and forth.
Every hillside had kids riding up and down, up and down, up and down
for hours on end.
One time a guy I knew told me that he had discovered a nearby place to
go dirt riding and it turned out to be nothing more than a vacant lot
in Culver City.
I told him, "You've got to be kidding, you're going to try to ride
*here*?"
He said, "This is dirt, I have a dirtbike, I'm going to ride here."
A few minutes later, an irate property owner came out and asked, "Have
you boys ever heard of a muffler?"
My friend said, "A muffler? What's that?"
Another time, we hauled our dirtbikes out to the desert in his truck,
and he parked next to some vacation cabins.
I told him, "This is not a good idea. The people who own these cabins
are going to come out here and find all these motorcycle tracks around
their cabins and they are going to complain."
I was right. Most of the desert was closed to off road travel the next
year.
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