While many off-roaders argue that the law-breakers comprise a tiny minority of their ranks -- Don Amador, the western representative for the BlueRibbon Coalition, an off-road advocacy group, said illegal riders accounted for "1 or 2percentt" of all off-road activity -- some law enforcement officials, most environmentalists and even some off-roading fans said that the figure was much higher.
"You can't treat all off-road vehicle users as lawbreakers".
It's a serene route, all off-road, away from the hubbub of the city.
There are, after all, off-road vehicles now -- and laser-guided missiles and a Palestinian proto-state.
Its petition seeks an immediate ban on the use of all-terrain vehicles, dune buggies, sand buggies and four-wheel-drive vehicles on all off-road areas in the national park system, including beaches, primitive trails and back-country roads.
Dr. Emile DeVito, an ecologist with the foundation, said the group was calling for statewide registration of all off-road vehicles, tougher enforcement and a firmer state policy to push buggies and other vehicles toward capped landfills and abandoned industrial lands.
What also helps is that chassis dynamics and all off-road tuning was left to Land Rover experts, who know best how to make driving up a mountain at a constant 20-degree pitch seem like tooling along Park Avenue on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
Driving in the same tracks during all off-road incidents does not significantly affect the degree of compaction under the tracks, but greatly reduces the compacted area (Laker 2001).
(All the off-road portions of the Ways we hiked were clearly signposted, but not so carefully as to create a single, well-trodden path, which could cause erosion).
It's got all the off-road stuff that it's citified brother is missing.
