Apparently that guy is also the former owner of the islands very own creasote super fund site, but yeah bikes are the “environmental emergency”
Me and Cornelia have ridden the Dirty Chilly and the Dark Chilly (neither during the actual chilly hilly day). Both times, there were points where we were like “we probably shouldn’t be riding here”. Like trails that were clearly for pedestrians only. Or going the wrong way on one way roads. Lots of stuff that I would give a pass to in an alleycat if it was designed by some dirt bag bike messenger. But these routes are designed and popularized by people in their 30s and 40s who own businesses and have real jobs.
Rides like dirty chilly strike me as being dirt bag cosplay for people with tech jobs and mortgages and $6k gravel bikes.
I also know Bainbridge people can be assholes. And that they might think that their local path is for pedestrians only when it’s actually designed for bikes too. So basically, everyone is wrong on some point.
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Lmao this guy is an asshole. I can’t stand it when people brag about their degrees in irrelevant circumstances.
Didn’t read all that but I have ridden with Rick (dirty chilly routemaker) before he is a good dude.
@Tim the paths at least appear to be legal.
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“Mooooommmmm! People are riding bikes in the public park!!! I don’t like it!!!”
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Funny to complain about bikes damaging trails that are also open to EQUESTRIANS
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I agree that the trails I rode were (at least mostly) technically open to bikes. But there’s a difference between a couple of folks riding the trails on a random weekend and a bunch of people organizing a ride for many people to all ride those trails on the same day.
There’s also a difference between trails that are designed for bikes and trails that don’t specifically prohibit bikes. Probably shouldn’t be leading 50 people down the second kind of trail. And if you do, you should definitely be aware and respectful of other trail users. Most multi-use trails have indications that bikes yeild to hikers.
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It takes 50 cyclists something like 3 minutes? to ride past someone walking on a trail.
I’m sorry if someone got inconvenienced for 3 minutes out of the 525,597 other minutes of the year they have available.
I can’t help but replace “trails” with “streets” in your post and it sounds exactly like a bunch of car drivers whining about being inconvenienced for having to share the road with cyclists.
I get being polite and sharing facilities and all that. And that 50 cyclists all at once can seem like a lot. But it’s a tiny blip out of overall use.
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also If I told you 50 guys did a mtb lap on the trail over the course of the day you’d think that was totally a normal number.
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poopbarning 
pooptrailing 
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That’s common sense illegal in America
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These are overly simplistic arguments. Don’t really feel like trail use and right of way can be reduced to a ratio of minutes.
And if we take this to the street analogy, it’s flipped from what you stated. This would be like cyclists complaining about cars. Bikes and cars must share the road. And roads suck when cars push the bikes out of the spaces that we are legally allowed to use.
A better analogy would be cyclists that use a quiet country road to ride for fun. Occasionally there’s cars that pass, but they are few and far between so that’s ok. Then, one day, someone organizes an unsanctioned rally on those roads and dozens of cars are flying by for several minutes with little warning and pushing the cyclists entirely off the road. You think no one’s gonna complain about that?
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It depends if it’s 50 chill, nice people, or 50 assholes.
I’ve been on rides with both compositions. I don’t blame the Karens so much if it’s 50 assholes.
can we just go back to the fucking hills race and just straight up bandit the ride??
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I’d say it’s a stretch to compare unsanctioned rally races on a road to a few dozen gravel bikes on a trail, in terms of scale of inconvenience, risk of injury, and potential of environmental damage. Also, it sounds like this event has been happening consistently for years now, so it’s not like this is a random storm of cyclists. Sounds like the organizers could have at least notified the parks dept.
This kind of thing happens to me at least once a summer:
I’ll be riding along on a mountain bike trail that is built, maintained, and used primarily by cyclists. But it’s not illegal to walk your dog or run on them. A swarm of runners come along because someone organized an unsanctioned 10k trail run. I pull to the side for 5 minutes until the runners pass.
edit: I confess to complaining about runners cutting corners and widening singletrack.
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socks have gone too far… anything between a tall crew and a thigh-high is verboten unless you’re playing soccer
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