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Written by Mark Bumgarner, MT
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"My family and I love to ride our ATV's but when the weather keeps us indoors we watch programs about ATV's on the TV. We use to watch DAVES ATV WORLD but I got so disgusted with it that I refuse to even turn on the TV when this show is on. This program shows folks speeding around the country side tearing the hell out of everything. They bank the trails and create dust not to mention bury their rigs in mud holes that should be left alone. Shows like this set the example that it is okay to ride like fools without ethics or morals. I think this program should teach, by example, good riding ethics. Nobody even mentions the words TREAD LIGHTLY or TRAIL COURTESY. Even the commercials advertising ATV's show professional riders ripping up the land jumping and going as fast as they can blowing stuff everywhere. Why can't they promote the only thing that will keep our trail systems open and that is "TREAD LIGHTLY" keep the speed down and if you want to baja through the humps, bumps and dips do it on the track not in the mountains. We don't need riders to grab onto the throttle and leave everyone behind just to climb a rocky hillside to get to the top where they cannot go any further. If they have to tear up the country just to get there than they should turn around and find a more friendly route. Riders who take ATV's off trail and ride like madmen are going to destroy what we have. We are going to lose our opportunity to ride anywhere if this type of ethics continues to be taught by the media and the makers of ATV's."
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