Popping wheelies in the forest is fun

Why this backlash against mountain bikers? [“Battle of Wheels, Jan. 25] Just what is so wrong with us taking to hiking trails by the truckloads, poaching new tracks here and there, having such a raging good time that we can be heard half a mile away (those hiking fossils better hear us coming or we’ll bump ‘em off the trails) and causing what wildlife there is to run or fly off in panic? Nothing funnier than running over a snake, bro. And enough about bagging on us for the Day-Glo spandex we choose to wear. We are out to be seen and heard. Dude, we are the “wild” in wilderness!

Ron Romanosky

Tustin