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[QUOTE="Ol'89r, post: 1212471, member: 17212"] Thanks for clearing that up Ken. :cool: And thanks for belonging to the BRC. Chris. First of all, we are both on the same page here. Both striving for the same thing. :nod: I was only pointing out what can happen to these programs once the politicians and greedy agencys get their hands on it. Yes, we have many good offroad parks in California that are sponsored by the green sticker fund. But, here in Riverside county, a county with probably the biggest population of offroaders in all of California the fund has been raided. We have the most piss-poor excuse for an offroad park in all of California, Wildomar ohv park. Total nine miles of rutted out, off camber, slippery sandstone trails. :| Many of us have tried to convince the county of the need for a place for everyone to ride. Illegal riding is a big problem in this county and one of the reasons for it is the lack of a good park. A good friend of mine who owns hundreds of acres of land in this area tried to get the county to let him open up a cycle park using his own money and his own land. The county gave him so much crap, he finally gave up. How did it get that way you ask. It got that way because for every pro-active person there are ten idiots. For every person that stands before the city council and pleads our case, there are ten or more examples of the idiots. It was bad enough with just the young arrogant riders in the past now, we have the tweakers and the party group that have discovered motorcycles and quads. These are the one's that are used against us as examples. When we talk about how good of a sport this is, the other side shows video's of these idiots tearing it up in some parking lot or in front of somebodys house. This is why a large portion of Glamis is being shut down, because of the party people not because of the bug or plant. The city and county officials really don't care about us. We are more of a pain in their butts than anything else and they would just as soon see us all go away. Now it has gone to the attorneys. We have had to sue the county and when the attorneys get involved, everybody loses. You say my message is alarming. Good! I hope you took it that way because I have seen more land closed to the public in my lifetime than you could ever imagine. Public land closed to the public. What do you see wrong with that sentence? :( When I first found DRN about 7 years ago, I was pretty excited because I saw this as a great media for getting the word out. I thought we could finally organize all pro-active riders and fight this thing. I thought that through the internet we could alert everyone as to what is going on and have a better way to organize everyone into one group. That didn't happen. We still only got a few people to become active. Most said they didn't have time or it was too far to drive or they had to work. Well, most of us don't have the time. We all have lives to live and this takes time. We will drive hundreds of miles to go riding but won't drive 30 miles to a meeting. Most all of us work or have businesses. Many of those that work have paid time off but won't use that to attend a meeting. Gotta save that for vacation time. It's about making sacrifices for the betterment of the sport. If we are not willing to make sacrifices for the sport to survive, I guarantee you, it will not survive. There are many of us that have been fighting this for a very long time. I am just about done. I'm to the age where there are more important things to worry about. Time for new people to take over and fight the good fight. I have made concessions so I can still ride my bike. I have dualsported my XR350 and my CRF450 and can ride most anywhere. (Where there's a will, there's a way.) A couple of weeks ago I rode right past the ROVE cops and waved. They kinda waved back. I'm sure they are already trying to figure out a way to outlaw dualsports too. The bottom line is, we all have to become involved. We have a huge voice to be heard if only we could use it. We spend many dollars on our toys and toy haulers. We are a very large force to be reckoned with if we could only become organized as one group. It is up to us as individuals to become involved either by attending these meetings or by sending as much money as you can afford to the organizatons that are fighting for us. Fighting amongst ourselves is not the way to go. It only detracts from our goal. [/QUOTE]
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