an invitation to isolation

on the mixing of oil and water

How do you mix oil and water?

You don’t because they don’t.

For some cyclists, ATV’s ‘Quads’ and Side by sides are problematic.

These tend to be the classist, university educated, professional, elitist fuckers.

Complaints include ruts in the trails, noise and dust clouds when being passed.

Locally, ATV association that are largely composed of blue collar / trades based people are at odds with community conservation groups that are mostly composed of soft handed office workers. They are vying for control of the trail networks that have sprung up on all railway beds.

To be clear, this is neither a safety nor eco issue. It’s a class based fight for dominance. When we ride our bikes in remote places, most of the time we’re following old logging roads and ATV routes.

The Lake Charlotte Mini Epic takes place almost exclusively on ATV trails. We’re guests in the house of mud, noise and dust.

I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Amongst middle class people things like jet skis and ATV’s have a bad repu…