10 - Congress agrees with IMBA and reverses
ban of mountain bike use in federally designated
Wilderness areas
9 - The Fund for Animals has change of heart
and joins with the BlueRibbon Coalition to
support snowmobile use in Yellowstone National
Park provided recreationists use the new
environmentally friendly 4-stroke engine
technology
8- US Army enters two off-road teams into the
Baja 1000. The teams are comprised of their best
dirt-bike riders and military dune-buggy drivers
from Iraq. The teams place 2nd and 5th their
respective categories
7 - Presidential hopeful, John Edwards,
shoots campaign commercial showing him riding an
ATV on National Forest System Lands. He likes
the sport and buys ATVs for his entire family
6 - California Governor, Arnold
Schwarzenegger, and actor buddy, Bruce Willis,
ride the entire length of the California
Backcountry Discovery Trail on street-legal
dual-sport motorcycles
5 - Mel Gibson makes new “Mad Max” movie
based on premise that a group of off-roaders,
using a uncovered cache of Saddam’s leftover 250
courier-oriented dirt-bikes, fight off the
efforts of post apocalyptic mutants to overthrow
the governments of France and Spain
4- One motorcycle manufacturer announces new
off-road lineup consisting of dirt-bikes that
use updated twin rear shock technology
3- Al Gore finds and buys his old Honda 305
from his college days that he found parked
alongside a barn near Nashville, Tennessee. He
spends almost $10,000 to restore it to showroom
condition. He then donates it to the American
Motorcyclist Association’s Motorcycle Museum
near Columbus, Ohio
2- America’s Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, swings
though California and tours several State
Vehicular Recreation Areas. Decides to insert a
pro “off-road recreation” plank into his
presidential platform should he decide to run
for the White House in 2008
1- Oregon and California State Parks, the
National Park Service, and BLM give up on
ineffective hand pulling techniques to eradicate
the invasive and non-native European beachgrass
on coastal dunes and hire local off-road clubs
to operate vehicles in matted areas to restore
the sand dune structure
