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ATV
, ATV Statistics
, Legislation/Environment News
, OHV Areas
, Rants
on September 18, 2007
They want it both ways, but get mad if they don't get their way
Wheeler News Service reports that a Wisconsin Department of natural resources plan to add riding trails for ATVs is a great idea o...
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Rants
on September 12, 2007
Throw Out the Whole Carton for One Bad Egg
When you've got one bad egg in the carton, do you throw out the whole carton? No. You smash the one bad egg into a thousand pieces as an example to the...
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ATV
, Legislation/Environment News
, Motorcycle
, News
, Off-Road
, OHV Areas
, Rants
on September 4, 2007
Kunkletown Kids need safer recreational areas to ride ATVs, and they thought they had it. The Weekend Warroirs Motocross Club have an off road course off Silver Spring Boulevard that's opened on...
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ATV
, Legislation/Environment News
, News
, OHV Areas
, Rants
on August 28, 2007
ATV enthusiasts have been duped again. This time in Collier County, where the Picayune state forest was recently shut down to ATVs. Left without a place to ride, officials promised to open a permanent...
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Accidents
, ATV
, Legislation/Environment News
, News
, Rants
on August 18, 2007
The Washington Post did an article called This Isn't Child's Play where they, like so many others, mis-used stats to make a point based on an agenda.
More than 100 children die every year in ...
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Accidents
, ATV
, Legislation/Environment News
, News
, Rants
on August 16, 2007
Dr. Mike Howlett of the Colchester Regional Hospital quit a committee created to oversee changes to the use of ATVs. He quit because the committee wasn't being strict enough with the rules governi...
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Rants
on August 14, 2007
Every time I turn around, there's something somewhere slamming ATVs because they do damage to "critical habitats" and "destroy natural resources".
Right. And all you hippy typ...
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Rants
on August 13, 2007
I don't know how I missed this one, but Jim, the 4x4 Guide over at About.com caught it... Seems there's a beach in Hatteras, Virginia that a Federal Judge has assigned fines and jail time to f...
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Legislation/Environment News
, News
, Rants
on August 13, 2007
Redding Record Searchlight reports that Lassen and other national forests are restricting All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) to "curb environmental destruction."
But according to some, that's ...
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Rants
on August 9, 2007
In response to a comment stating that ATVs are responsible for broken glass, destroying entire eco-systems, and indeed, causing global warming on Mars, I was going to say something to The effect tha...
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Rants
on August 7, 2007
ParentWonder is helping spread more false information about ATVs and kids vs ATVs and bicycles. They're saying that a group of pissed off mothers had a study done tracking accidents by kids. So I ...
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Rants
on August 3, 2007
That's right, this time it's a serious (and real) problem with a species that is quickly becoming the main target for extinction.
The species?
OHVers. Duners. ATVers. And just about anyone ...
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ATV
, Legislation/Environment News
, News
, Rants
on July 30, 2007
Canadian Medical Journal is jumping on the mis-information bandwagon. They headlined an article titled:
ATV injuries rise 50% as other types decline
In the article, they state that ATV related hospi...
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ATV
, Legislation/Environment News
, News
, OHV Areas
, Rants
on July 30, 2007
Germany Township in PA wants to govern how and when tax paying citizens from riding on their property. More legislation taking away your rights to do what you want on your own property.
New riding h...
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Rants
on July 12, 2007
Oklahoma's Ada Evening News is saying new helmet laws are not enough. They want more. They won't say what, except that the new helmet laws in Oklahoma should apply on, wait for it....
private...
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Rants
on July 6, 2007
So New York State bans ATV riders from all of it's 3 million acres of public land, and they don't expect OHVers to be mad? It seems like every attempt to get off roaders a place to ride is sho...
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ATV
, ATV Safety
, News
, Off-Road
, Rants
on July 5, 2007
There is a growing amount of misinformation being spread about atv safety in an effort to attempt to close down this quickly growing off-road recreational activity. I keep reading (and now hearing on...
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ATV
, Legislation/Environment News
, Motorcycle
, News
, Off-Road
, OHV Areas
, Rants
on June 29, 2007
The Shasta Trinity National Forest is doing a study on the impact of ATVs using national forest areas which are the home to spotted owl, a federally protected and endangered bird. The BlueRibbon Coali...
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ATV
, ATV Safety
, News
, Off-Road
, Rants
on June 25, 2007
...And quite honestly, who could blame him? Bill Burgund is a retired cop who lost his left leg in the line of duty. He lives in Montana and hikes along Lost Horse Road near lake como regularly.
On a...
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ATV
, Legislation/Environment News
, News
, Off-Road
, OHV Areas
, Rants
on June 19, 2007
In this image, you see a home owner attempting to measure ruts in the mud near his driveway which are claimed to be 18 inches deep by John Myers, reporter for the Duluth News Tribune. The article talk...
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ATV
, Legislation/Environment News
, News
, Off-Road
, OHV Areas
, Rants
on June 19, 2007
Press Enterprise reports that a Riverside County California Sheriff shot at an un-armed fleeing ATV rider at Canyon Lake on May 12, 2007.
Sheriff's claimed the person on the ATV (a rhino side by...
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Legislation/Environment News
, News
, Rants
on June 13, 2007
The Salt Lake Tribune had an editorial the other day that was basically slamming garfield County, Utah for being biased in favor of ATVs. Biased in favor of ATVs. It doesn't happen much, but when ...
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ATV
, Legislation/Environment News
, News
, Rants
on June 7, 2007
Remember my post a few weeks ago called Shooting Yourself (and the Rest of Us) in the Foot where I was ranting about ATV usage being banned on private property? Well guess what... phillyburbs.com repo...
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Legislation/Environment News
, News
, Rants
on June 4, 2007
Roden over at IfEnergy brought up the fact that his friend is into carbon credits as an investment, and is doing quite well at it. I know Al Gore would be proud. I kind of chuckled to myself knowing t...
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Legislation/Environment News
, News
, Rants
on May 31, 2007
The Center for Biological Diversity is in an uproar because the evil President Bush and his administrative cronies haven't added anything to the endangered species list in over a year. They claim ...
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ATV
, Legislation/Environment News
, Motorcycle
, News
, Off-Road
, OHV Areas
, Rants
on May 30, 2007
That's right, folks! ATVs are making ruts on some trails somewhere in Alaska. Lets find who's responsible and jail them, impound their ATVs and ban anyone else from ever riding an ATV again!
...
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Humor
, Legislation/Environment News
, News
, Other
, Rants
on May 30, 2007
Another dilemma for me today... I don't know if I should post this in Humor or Enviro/News... Seems a member of the Earth Liberation Front was sentenced to 13 years in prison for arson. My first r...
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ATV
, ATV Safety
, Legislation/Environment News
, News
, Off-Road
, Other
, Rants
on May 29, 2007
South Carolina's The State.com ran an article by Cindi Scoppe today called
Somebody's got to stand up for the rights of 6-year-old driversthat made me want to puke. In it, the Cindy Sheehan o...
