Bush Makes It Easier to Open National Park Trails to Mountain Bikers
By Rocky Thompson on October 15th, 2008
This reminds me of high school when I super into mountain biking and thought “roadies” were about as cool as my math teachers. Of course, it turned out that my math teach was fired when some of the student-teachers complained he was creeping them out, and now I almost exclusively ride on the road, so I guess these things are bound to change. Does this mean that 10 years from now we’ll see Bush cruising through Midtown on a fixie kicking taxis’ doors and flicking off people driving in bike lanes? Probably. Mountain bikers: For now you have a lame duck friend in high places. We should try to get W. interested in polar bears and see if he’d do something about the ice caps before taking off, too.
via Out There
bush has a pretty sweet bike.
what an asshole.
If he removed the seat from the bike, he could have the citizen experience that we’ve had the last 8 years.
On a serious note: it’s hard to buy a U.S. made bike. Most Treks I’ve seen are made somewhere else…admittedly not sure about this one. Wouldn’t you think the pres could ride something clearly U.S.-made? Do we really suck that bad?
Is it “flicking off people driving in bike lanes” or flipping off people… ?
I always thought it was flipping?
I’ve heard both flicking and flipping. I prefer flicking though. And my trek 520 is handmade in the usa.
I’ve heard both “flicking” and “flipping” I prefer flicking. And my trek 520 is handmade in the usa.
most fabrication and engineering happens here, in waterloo wisconsin.
I just hope the Yosemite trails stay bike free. Oh, and the JMT.
Although I would like to see someone attempt Half Dome on a bike, not someone likable though, because the person would die.
So let’s see if I have this right: you can rape the holy living hell out of the wilderness by re-classifying it and opening it up to strip mining and the 18,000 dump trucks a year that must pass through hundreds of miles of (formerly) remote Utah, but riding a bike through a national park is too disruptive to the environment? Oh, ok, as long as we’re on the same page. (refer to riding the spine dot com)