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Association (NSMBA) is
involved in discussions with
the seven major landowners
from the Greater Vancouver
Regional District, B.C. Parks,
Canada — Mortgage — and
Housing Corp., British Pacific
Properties, Grouse Mountain
and) = North and West
Vancouver districts.

Both bikers and landown-
ers have been holding a series
of mectings over the past
month, most recently on
Tuesday, to discuss resolutions
to the problems.

Three years ago, meetings
between the groups would
have been impossible. The
mountain bikers were disorga-
nized and are still represenied
by a myriad of self-interest
organizations. There was fric-

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tion benveen the bikers and
government officials.

But that hostility has dissi-
pated in the interests of reach-
ing a compromise.

Bikers realize that as the
new kid on the block -
sport being only 20 years old
—— it’s up to them to salvage
any bad reputation they have
in the community and with
city officials.

All groups involved are
aware thar in the United
States land-use and trail-access
issues are at an all-time low
with many popular riding
areas closed to bikers.

In Marin County, San
Francisco, where the moun-
tain bike was invented, park
rangers on horses with hand-
guns will seize mountain bikes
if they catch riders on prohib-
ited trails.

Closer to home, Burnaby
Mountain has been closed to
bikers for years because of cro-
sion problems.

Cairncross and Kevin Pike,
West Vancowver’s director of
parks and recreation, are pri-
marily working with the
NSMBA to set a policy for
future trail and structure
building.

North Vancouver District
with its larger trail network
has had a longer working rela-
tionship with trail builders like
Todd Fiander, affectionately
known as “the Digger,” who
has been instrumental in
building many trails on
Mount Fromme.

Fiander’s trails are specifi-
cally buile co withstand the
impact of bikers and help curb

“Sor,

erosion. Manv hiking trails are
not suitable for tiking and
Fiander and friends spend
hundreds of hours cach year
rebuilding trails for the enjoy-
ment of bikers and hikers
alike. Fiander doesn’¢ cut
down live trees and makes use
of fallen debris, but other trail
builders are not as judicions as
he is.

“In Marin County,
San Francisco,
where the moun-
tain bike was
invented, park
rangers on horses
with handguns will
seize Mountain
bikes if they catch
riders on prohibit-
ed trails.”

Pike said his = West
Vancouver parks staff have
known about the ramps and
ladders on Cypress trails with
names like Pre-Reaper and Sex
Boy, but have been hoping
that no new structures would
be built. Some have suggested
that a special area, similar to
one in Langdale, be set aside
where trail builders can con-
struct ramps and other struc-
tures without putting West
Vancouver at legal risk.

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from the North Vancouver

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among other things, to resist
pecr pressure to try tricky
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Cairncross and Pike both
want to see mountain biking
continue on the North Shove .
and don’t want to close their
respective areas to bikers.

But they need the coopera-
tion of all involved to make a
realistic policy that will be
obeyed and followed by
beginners and hardcore
mountain bikers, _

Pike is planning to submit
a report to West Vancouver:
council in September updat- ~
ing it about the mountain bik-
ing situation.

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