Outlawing Off-Road Riding (from 1986 Winning Magazine)

Thanks to Jeff Royal for sharing the original article. - MF

OUTLAWING OFF-ROAD RIDING 

Winning Magazine, May 1986

by R. P. Boye
 

The politics of banning mountain bikes from park trails.
Bob Cooper

On January 21 this year the East Bay Regional Park Board in California discussed the banning of off-road bicycles on many of its park trails. Park administrators felt that the prohibition of bicycles was necessary to ensure the safety of other trail users. The park district, which includes 46 parks in Contra Costa and Alameda counties, had received 30 complaints in two years from hikers and horseback riders who had been forced off trails by mountain bike riders. Consequently, the park board drew up an ordinance that would prohibit bikes from using dirt trails designed primarily for hiking and horseback riding. About one-third of the trails within the parks would be affected. Bikes would be allowed only on fire roads. 

'WORLD'S OLDEST ACTIVE COWBOY' TO MARK 94TH BIRTHDAY - Oakland Tribune - October 20, 1949

'WORLD'S OLDEST ACTIVE COWBOY' TO MARK 94TH BIRTHDAY

Tom Wauhab Shuns His Rocking Chair Despite Great Age

By BILL STROBEL 

SUNOL, Oct, 20. - When most pioneers pass the 75-year mark, society is content to let them retire to a rocking chair and spin tales of the "good old days."