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It is not dificult to explain!! This is your own infomercial!!! We are in hehre to see how it works and if it would fit us or not!!

I actually work in the bike industry, my empathy was gone years ago.

See, so easy. free therapy!

For a tolerant society to survive, the tolerant must be intolerant of intolerance itself. There's a problem for a tolerant society when people with intolerant opinions, based off of fear and other irrational things, are using them as the basis for a democratic movement, and are willfully ignoring anything that might suggest they could be wrong. How do you tell such people that they're being out of line, of what's expected of decent people? Calling them an a-hole is a start. Little do they know that they're the swamp that raises idiots that make it to a committee seat, which...

Nailed it! It's not MTBers, it's the internet commenters of the world. The only ones bothering to comment most of the times are the ones with really strong opinions. No one else gives enough of a damn to hammer away on the keyboard. Most MTBers area a really good and supportive group of folks out in the real world. We've even proven this through an experiment of sorts. I've been a long-time leader in advocacy and building trails locally (Seattle/WA). Back in the day when we were doing outreach meeting for either Colonnade or Duthie (blurred together in my mind)...

In the real world, i dont think there are many a--hole mtbers. On the internet, there is a lot. The bell curve was mentioned above, so ill spin off that. The mtb "club" or "community" is the whole curve, but only the ppl on the outskirts of this curve do all the comments or speak their oppinion in public, and then you get the impression that the "club" might be full of a-holes or at least divided about all these topics. But in the real world, these comments or a-holes does not represent the community. Maybe 5%? At this site...