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[QUOTE="Fred T, post: 764041, member: 22413"] Ted First off Quad riders need training wheels, thats why they ride quads. Second, in most cases they require very little skill to ride making them popular with more people. Kinda similar to the snowmobiling scene. The DNR looks at our trail system with their budget and how much work it is in mind. They really don't care if we have the trails or not, they are so busy with so many aspects of the natural Resource managment from hunters, fishing, poaching, tree managment, etc. and their budgets keep getting cut. They claim that what trail we have now is more than they can handle and I think they would like to see it be less that it is right now. It looks like getting more new trail will be very difficult unless we shut down some existing trail and that would be difficult because of all the approval processes that need to be done to create new trail. (They need to make sure of it's enviormental impact and that it stays off private land.) I like the trail systems that have bike only trail co existing with the quad trails but after a while that stuff gets beat up too bad and the de whooper can't go through it because it's too wide. Then we see the quads riding on the cycle only trail for what ever reason, probably looking for more of a challenge so then we get less of a challenge when they make it wider and screw it up. So, then if you want to ride good trails you have to enter an enduro to get some fun trail to ride, but now the only enduros that you can ride will be the ones that are on private land because the DRN will not allow "event only" trail for cross country events because it conflicts with their interests in conserving the enviromment and keeping people off it after the event . Private land owners don't want events on their land because of the liability. (Godda love those lawers!) So we are getting less and less enduros that we can ride, possibly that we may only have 2 Enduros in MI this year. So that means that you can ride some cool trails twice this summer, maybe 3 times in MI. Maybe a few in Indiana. So, the next thing we can do is to ride a few hare scrambles to fill in, but that can get a little boreing ridng the same track for several laps, but at least it's riding the dirt. Now the only other riding option is to ride MX which requires you to be some one that likes to jump your bike and probably break a few bones in the process from time to time if ya mess up on one of those jumps. I'm getting real old to heal up from that stuff. ANd the funny thing about it is we got it pretty good here in Michigan compared to many other states except like Washington, Utah, and Oregon I think. Off road riding is slowly going away, more and more each year. Last year we lost the Traverse city enduro for good and now we afe fighting to Keep the Oldest and most famous Enduoe in the country alive -the Jackpine. If you really want to enjoy our state I suggest you fire off a letter to your senator, congressmen and tell them hoe you feel about your right to ride your bike in the state of Michigan. [/QUOTE]
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