Those machines are awesome.... But I really like to "tread lightly". Those things do not do anything lightly.
I like to tread lightly as well. Even running a trials tire these days. But in all honestly most this is done in country no one really uses or cares about and left for a few years would be all covered in foliage again and forgot. For the record I don't do any of that 4 wheel stuff at all.
I was thinking the same thing. I'm not a tree hugger but everytime I see clips of those guys it makes me think "no wonder riding and rec areas are getting shut down."
I love horsepower as much as (more than!) the next guy, but the complete lack of finesse with those things is insane. Just pin it and bounce around until it hooks, I guess? I used to be way into fast cars and trucks, but once you get the flow going on a bike through the trees, sitting in a seat holding a steering wheel seems lame. I've never done a wheelie in a car; I did about 100 of them in 50 miles of enduro trail this weekend.
Several of those crawlers moon scaped a local riding area and contributed heavily to it being shut down. The vegetation does grow back if given a chance. We lost some good techincal single track that had been around for 50 years. I do not have any use for them and think they should be used closed course only.
Yeah I rode Reiter a few times. Sucks it is gone. There were lots of goons there. All that could have been regulated out or into one specific area. Here in the Tillamook burn there are designated 4wd areas which used to be trails that got wider and wider with quads until jeeps could make it through. Instead of closing it they embraced it and made it a 4wd area which is great and keeps them off most the other trails. They are doing a fantastic job of managing it here. Lots of 4wd, quad and single track all designated and for the most part works fine. BTW i was just posting a crazy vid, did not mean I was endorsing this activity but is fun to watch the crazy vid.
