'budferret'..........I had to do a double check on your name. Change the 'd' to a 't' and.............well let's just say I'd be thinking you had NAMBLA aspirations. LOL

Seriously though, I'd like to thank you for bringing your perspective to this forum. The last thing we want to do is unwittingly "feed the Trolls" and potentially add fodder to anti-ATV groups as well.

Bob

 

Thanks for pointing out them name thing. I don't necessesarily endorse beer products or weasels but a friend thought the critter on the old beer commercials was cool. I've only got 10 posts with this forum name and now I have to change it again. LOL !

As far as ANTI-ATVers, I have grown tired of seeing posts from ATV Connection taken out of context and copied to ANTI sites to feed their propaganda machines. They have followed links to pictures of mud riding in Texas on private ATV parks that maintain areas specifically for that purpose. They then point to these pictures and say that no motorized trail use should be allowed in Mass because that is what ALL ATV use does to ALL trails. They spend more time on these forums than we do to find that special "one in a thousand" quote to use against us. It's a shame that we can't let our guard down and relax here in our "home" because of these "peeping Toms".

In my research I have often found useful information and news about our sport on the sites of our opponents before I find them on supporting forums. These opponents register on our forums to help them violate terms of use and copyright laws. Although they usually lurk here like an ugly "troll" hiding in a fetid cave, they will occasionally make baited comments to fish or "troll" for the negative responses they seek. These cretins derive much personal satisfaction from demonstrations of their towering intellects by making clever little troll comments about the state of their anatomy.

I am not homophobic but the reference to nambla is not accidental. The offending troll will know why and has probably already already quoted my insult on his opponent site to further convince his fellow trolls. to hate us. (It could be said that I'm "trolling" for his response to further identify him)

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: upnort

Well when "stupid(A$$)ATVrider" gets nabbed, machine confiscated, fined will see where the river comes from. But in the mean time people with that idiotic mentality will go on ruining it for the majority of us. Maybe law abiding atvers will have to get involved also.</end quote></div>

i under stand completely, but where do you ride? most people sticking up for cops have their own land to ride on, so they dont care....[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/img]

 

Ya know, I read that first post and something didn't sit right with me. I have to preface this by saying I believe in the slogan "stay on the trail or stay home" whole heartedly. However, if you are a rider with any sort of experience and you read the article one thing should really kind of make you wonder if the police were indeed reporting the truth. This would be that "two of the four-wheel vehicles reportedly sped toward the officer, going more than 40 miles an hour. Brown reported that both vehicles swerved in an attempt to hit him"!!! C'mon now. I have been riding a long time now and can't even imagine that I could run a grown man down at 40 miles per hour and not crash the bike. It's absurd to think that this was what really happened. I ride where there are a ton of deer and dread the day I have to actually occupy the same space at the same time with one of them. At 40 mph the impact would be devistating to both the object and the bike(rider included). There is probably a thread of truth to the story but I think the police are looking for a sympathy vote from the anti atv people in thier rendition of the story. A non-atver would probably think that on an atv you could run someone over like you were in a car. Absolutely ludicrous.

Anyway, I guess I just don't buy into the reported record of the story. Sounds like a lot of anti atv hype to me.

 

Huh maybe mud hog is on to something. We really can't trust the police! or maybe they are just tired of chasing those little punks around. I know I would eventually lose my patience and try and get sympathy from people for help. But seriously its riders such as these that give the rest of us a bad name. Those of us that follow the rules are being punished for these little punks idiotic actions.

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>He is only here to look at pictures of little boys on their bikes and post them on his troll website.</end quote></div>
And budferret this statement creeps me out and makes me wanna stay home with all the doors and windows locked. StupidAtver is a troll and thanks to you we all know, and knowing is half the battle.

 

Real cool!!! You arrest a couple of chicks that just burned you!!!!

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>"The biggest complaints we get are the vehicles are riding down main streets at a high rate of speed. </end quote></div>Looks to me like that in town would be the place to start.

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Having purchased one off-road motorcycle, the Cumberland Police Department is in the process of buying a second vehicle and plans are in the works to train the local officers who will be on motorcycle patrol</end quote></div>
So they are going to train the cops to ride the bikes? Inexperienced dirt bike riders trying to catch experiened atv riders? LOL The cop that got hurt probably stopped and fell over on his side just trying to maintain his balance.

Now don't take this the wrong way, but I don't trust a statement by the police any more than I do a statement from anyone else. Too many of them on a power trip.

 

I try and believe what the police have to say but have known to many of them in my life which are not quite on the straight and narrow. I still try to give them the benefit of the doubt.

On the purchasing of motorcycles to chase atv's thing, that's ridiculous. Unless all the trails and places the atv's are terrorizing are flat corridor type trails, the cops are gonna kill themselves trying to run down the atv's. Where I ride in the twisties, there is no way a dirt bike could even come close to hanging with my 800. I think those poor guys are in for a rude awakening. Maybe the town is so small that they know every punk in town and all they have to do is id them.