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My Nuts Are Flat
Apr 18, 2002
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Towing the party line.
Damn right. I guess he finally shows his true colors...mountain biker. Love how he is guaranteeing to slip this one in before Nov 15th to make sure it passes. Oh Junior...
 

Red Bull

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Oct 22, 2004
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That is such good news for places like Mt. Snow that have been so troubled for trying to cut new trails. Oh the possibilities! :)
 

jonKranked

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Nov 10, 2005
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Well he is an avid cyclist. Maybe this is his way of getting setup to fvck the country up more after he's out of office?


....nah.
 

General Lee

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Oct 16, 2003
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That is such good news for places like Mt. Snow that have been so troubled for trying to cut new trails. Oh the possibilities! :)
nah, it gives discretion to the park managers if they want to open select trails rather than leaving it up to Congress. The forest service up here in VT is more worried about 4 square feet of rare moss on a thousand acre mountain than they are of actual recreation. It will stay on lockdown regardless. Besides, Mt Snow won't spend the $$. they've been blaming the forest service for years, but it's just a convenient way to deny their actual lack of interest and investment in a trail network.
 

Hesh To Steel

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Dec 12, 2007
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Don't worry. If the McCain/Palin ticket wins, that law will quickly be repealed, and every area formerly containing MTB trails will be cleared to drill for oil.
 

chriscarleton

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Aug 4, 2007
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He will be enacting a law to make it easier for MTBers to gain access to national parks.

http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/2008/10/14/D93QDVPG0_bush_mountain_biking/index.html
This makes total sense.

I'm not sure if most people know, but the Bush family spends quite a bit of time in Kennebunkport Maine. A guy I know works at a bike shop down there and I guess earlier this summer Bush (W) requested that he guide him on a few rides. So this dude took W out on a ride with him (and tons of secret service agents and whatnot). I guess W ate sh!t pretty hard not too long into the ride and got up and rode for like another hour or so. He liked riding bike so much he flew the dude down to his ranch in Texas to guide him on a few rides down there.
 

big-ted

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Sep 27, 2005
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This makes total sense.

I'm not sure if most people know, but the Bush family spends quite a bit of time in Kennebunkport Maine. A guy I know works at a bike shop down there and I guess earlier this summer Bush (W) requested that he guide him on a few rides. So this dude took W out on a ride with him (and tons of secret service agents and whatnot). I guess W ate sh!t pretty hard not too long into the ride and got up and rode for like another hour or so. He liked riding bike so much he flew the dude down to his ranch in Texas to guide him on a few rides down there.
Possibly the most awesome story on Ride Monkey in ages....
 

stumpjump

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Sep 14, 2007
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Seriously, i realize that the political satire may be entertaining to some, but is there one place that this election will not go. Jeesh...
 

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My Nuts Are Flat
Apr 18, 2002
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How is this satire? It's a policy that is being passed, that will be of benefit to many many thousands of MTBers.

The rest of his policies were either lame ducks, or involved illegally invading sovereign nations.
 

LukeD

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Sep 9, 2001
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W is a big time mtb rider. If he wasn't a religious nutjob, he'd probably make a great neighbor.
funny what the media portrays, cuts and pastes etc etc. Family friends of ours since I was 5 are actually neighbors to the Bush's up in Kennebunk. Nothing but awesome people. They attented my friend's wedding, took him and his bride out for the day on his sick boat....had them over for dinner and i've even run into them up there in the past. The elder Bush and his son W, are really cool people you can sit down and have a beer and a laugh with. Clinton is probably the same way...just a different conversation over a beer i'm sure haha.
 

WheelieMan

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Feb 6, 2003
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Boy will I be glad when the next president is in office and I won't have to hear the Bush bashing any more. It's time to blame someone else for all of the worlds problems...
 

Cant Climb

Turbo Monkey
May 9, 2004
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GWB is a rider for sure....he did several laps on the Bejing course awhile back, sections of that were hairy.

Is kind of sad story that guy was into a sport that puts you face to face with so much yet he seemed to so out of touch......being a lifelong billionaire kept his perspectives isolated IMO.
 

ianjenn

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Sep 12, 2006
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Oh no! Accountability!

Played, time to pay.
So the other 45,000 people in our national government are just coat racks? Congress and Senate pass most of what a president tries to sign into law. All of them R idiots and all the big name political types come from same background. No more LAWYERS as politicians!:banana::clapping:
 

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My Nuts Are Flat
Apr 18, 2002
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Towing the party line.
So the other 45,000 people in our national government are just coat racks? Congress and Senate pass most of what a president tries to sign into law. All of them R idiots and all the big name political types come from same background. No more LAWYERS as politicians!:banana::clapping:
They aren't coat racks, but a president with this many presidential signings to get his way and this many vetoes deserves all the bashing he gets. He gets final say on most of what the upper and lower house try and pass.

In any case, that wasn't the point of the thread. This is a good move for outdoor enthusiasts, MTBers in particular. It means the difference between years of political wrangling, and a 30 minute decision by park management to allow us onto trails.
 
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Politics aside, they closed out a local trail out here in MD for W to ride (Rosaryville) a few days ago. Pretty cool, I think. Although he should've joined in for the trail work day.
 

Jm_

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Jan 14, 2002
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Don't worry. If the McCain/Palin ticket wins, that law will quickly be repealed, and every area formerly containing MTB trails will be cleared to drill for oil.
Sooner or later, it's gunna happen anyway.
 

drkenan

anti-dentite
Oct 1, 2006
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Our country is in ungodly debt and over 1 million innocent people have been killed in a war that we started but at least we get to ride our bikes on more trails!
 

William42

fork ways
Jul 31, 2007
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I blame the gays.


You probably do too.




And on topic: ooooooh boy I got a 4k descent in mind squarely in a nat park I've been eying for years.
yosemite? me too, riding down that trail to glacier point...

:banana:

sounds like its not an "all nat parks will be open to MTB" or anything of the sort (donno if I'm the only one to bother reading it) but it'll give more power to the parks to decide on an individual trail basis rather then going through the the national government. Donno what that means as far as my riding goes, dont know any trails that are closed because the national government said they'd have to be closed and the park ranger wanted them to be open, but I'm sure there are a couple out there.

edit: park managers, really, and i'm sure the local government will have something to say
 

sriracha

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It's time to blame someone else for all of the worlds problems...

Cheney and Rumsfield?
...little Bush is nothing more than a puppet.



I'd like to see something done about mountain bikes being grouped in the same category as motobikes, with regards to wilderness access. Just because we are a mechanical form of transport, does not mean we are motobikes.
 
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gemini2k

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Jul 31, 2005
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I'd like to see something done about mountain bikes being grouped in the same category as motobikes, with regards to wilderness access. Just because we are a mechanical form of transport, does not mean we are motobikes.
I believe you're behind the times. Wasn't something like that inacted a month or 2 ago?
 

Zark

Hey little girl, do you want some candy?
Oct 18, 2001
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really? i seriously was not aware of that. can anybody confirm this?
I can. IMBA sent me an email a month back saying the USFS has reversed its opinion regarding mtb's, no longer lumping them with moto's and ORV's and putting their use on terms with hiking and biking.

From the email:
Forest Service Issues Important Guidance on Mountain Bike Management
Addressing hundreds at the IMBA World Summit, Jim Bedwell, Forest Service director for recreation, heritage and volunteers, made a major announcement that will benefit mountain bikers nationwide. Bedwell presented a new agency memo clearly defining mountain biking as similar to hiking and equestrian use, and an activity to be managed separately from motorized travel.The document, written by Deputy Chief Joel Holtrop, is a significant step in the evolution of mountain bike management on Forest Service lands, and has been distributed to agency staff at the regional and local levels.
 

sriracha

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From the email:
Forest Service Issues Important Guidance on Mountain Bike Management
Addressing hundreds at the IMBA World Summit, Jim Bedwell, Forest Service director for recreation, heritage and volunteers, made a major announcement that will benefit mountain bikers nationwide. Bedwell presented a new agency memo clearly defining mountain biking as similar to hiking and equestrian use, and an activity to be managed separately from motorized travel.The document, written by Deputy Chief Joel Holtrop, is a significant step in the evolution of mountain bike management on Forest Service lands, and has been distributed to agency staff at the regional and local levels.


Wow...that's great news!

I got fed up with red tape and had gone AWOL, rogue even...A-Team stylez with regards to trail work.

So, just to clarify, they redefined mountain bikes to be more similar to hiking and horses, and left it up to local jurisdictions to determine wilderness access for mt.bikes?
 

AlmostHeaven

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Jun 8, 2005
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funny what the media portrays, cuts and pastes etc etc. Family friends of ours since I was 5 are actually neighbors to the Bush's up in Kennebunk. Nothing but awesome people. They attented my friend's wedding, took him and his bride out for the day on his sick boat....had them over for dinner and i've even run into them up there in the past. The elder Bush and his son W, are really cool people you can sit down and have a beer and a laugh with. Clinton is probably the same way...just a different conversation over a beer i'm sure haha.
it doesn't matter if they're the most "awesome people" in the world, he is still an idiot who can't run a country anywhere except into the ground. period.
 

LukeD

Monkey
Sep 9, 2001
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it doesn't matter if they're the most "awesome people" in the world, he is still an idiot who can't run a country anywhere except into the ground. period.
haha I won't even go there...
1. Idiots are not given multi-million dollar fighter jets.
2. There is A LOT more that goes on behind the scenes in government than you or any of us know. The president is a very, very small piece of it. If you would like facts, i'd be happy to put you on the phone or meet with many people involved in various parts of the federal government whom I have come to know or grew up with.
3. I was pointing out the fact that they are extremely nice down to earth people right when it comes down to it, in fact there are a few like that on both sides. So given the fact that he's trying to give back to our community of cyclists is just typical of what they are like as actual people.


as for the annoying neighbor comment haha he is a bit annoying actually haha