The photos here were taken in Joaquin Miller
Park, which is overseen by the City of Oakland. Among many great things about this park
is the fact that mountain biking is permitted on most singletrack trails, and mountain
bikers are not treated like pond scum (as they unfortunately are in many other Bay
Area open spaces). The bad thing is that a few reckless mountain bikers
do tend to abuse the privilege by riding off legal trails, threatening to lose us all the
privilege of riding there. We law-abiding cyclists are in the process of concerted efforts
to bring those renegades in line through an information campaign (headed up by the Bicycle
Trail Council of the East Bay, whose web site can be viewed at
www.btceastbay.org). If that fails, we will be forced to
kick their butts! Meanwhile, we are still enjoying the park's multi-use approach, where most
hikers, cyclists, joggers, dogs and other users tend to get along just fine.
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