In article .com,
wrote:
Great... a bike ride to support a strongly anti-bicycle organization.
Just what we need.

Coming next year... the Mike Vandemann fund-raising mountain bike ride!

Vandeman does not speak for the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club has censured
Vandeman in the past for being such an a**hole. The Sierra Club's national
magazine regularly publishes articles about bicycle touring, bicycle
commuting, and even mountain biking.

The Sierra Club's official policy is that ALL trails should be closed
by default, unless each one is individually checked out, declared open,
and posted as open. After that lengthy process, they are still subject
to regular review and closure on the whim of some committee. Check the
wording for yourself he

http://www.sierraclub.org/policy/con...on/mtnbike.asp

Just how much more anti-bike could you be??

I don't understand the SC at all. When I joined a number of years ago
it seemed that what my membership mainly got me was more pieces of mail
asking for more money. In recent years infighting among various board
factions makes it unclear what the SC is all about and what it stand on
many issues might be. I think that it is not at all the group it was 20
years ago. I pretty much ignore them at this point.

You could surf over to the SC website and check out where they stand on
issues. You could go further to your local Group's website and see what's
cookin' in your local area. I, for one, was surprised the group in
Cincinnatti has 6000 members. Here in Louisville, right down the road, we
don't have a third of that.

If you want an explanation of their anti-bicycle message, pick up any
mountain biking magazine and ask yourself if you'd like to share a quiet
hike with the pimply faced adolescents doing big air off of anything and
everything they can find. We bikers are our own worst enemy in mountain
biking issues.

If you "pretty much ignore them at this point", do you at least still send
in your money GGGGGG?


--
Snake
Louisville, KY
(please remoove the dashes in my email address:
-o-m)


"gds" wrote in message
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I don't understand the SC at all. When I joined a number of years ago
it seemed that what my membership mainly got me was more pieces of mail
asking for more money. In recent years infighting among various board
factions makes it unclear what the SC is all about and what it stand on
many issues might be. I think that it is not at all the group it was 20
years ago. I pretty much ignore them at this point.