🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:05:59 -0700, Mike Vandeman
<mjvande@pacbell.net> wrote:

>http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/06/16/bc-kelowna-illegal-bike-parks.html
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>Kelowna takes pickaxe to illegal mountain bike courses
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>Last Updated: Monday, June 16, 2008 | 4:15 PM ET Comments26Recommend11
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>CBC News 
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>Parks staff are destroying jumps like these in Knox Mountain Park,
>about three kilometers from downtown Kelowna. (City of Kelowna)
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>The City of Kelowna is tearing down what it calls rogue parks built by
>mountain bike riders in remote areas of the city's parks.
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>But local riders say the city has to find a better way to respond to
>the demand for facilities for the popular sport.
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>On Friday several parks department workers used shovels to tear down a
>half-dozen jumps, some up to two metres high, built on a hilltop in
>Kelowna's Knox Mountain Park. 
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>Barb Davidson, a planner with the parks department, said the city is
>tearing down the jumps because of liability issues, and that anyone
>building illegal bike parks could be fined.
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>Bike riders say there are eight to 10 bike parks with jumps like these
>in the Kelowna area. (City of Kelowna) 
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>"The bottom line is they are defacing public property. When we find
>out about one on parkland it's our duty to remove it," said Davidson.
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>Johnny Smoke, president of the Mountain Bikers of the Central
>Okanagan, said the riders who built the jumps will see the issue
>differently: "They are going to be choked." (this guy used to live in
>Vancouver, and abuse the North Shore, before he moved his commercial
>mtb tour business to the mountains in Kelowna)
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>He notes the City of Kelowna is planning several bike parks, but it
>could take a year to build the first one.
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>"In the City of Kelowna itself I think you are looking at four or five
>of them, and in the general regional district you are probably looking
>at eight or 10. They are small parks, community oriented, generally
>speaking for younger people," said Smoke.
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>Smoke maintains there is evidence of great interest in the sport,
>after 500 people joined the new Central Okanagan club this spring.
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>If Kelowna plans carefully, he said, it can become a destination for
>mountain biking like Whistler or parts of the U.S.
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>"It's a slam dunk. It should have been done a long time ago," said
>Smoke.
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>The city has scheduled a review of its plans for new bike parks on
>Monday and an open house for June 24.

Fuck the mountain bikers and their noisy cohorts, ATV riders.

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