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bikers stay east of the San Berna r d ino County line (wh ich lies about a mile beyond the end of the pavement of Avenue J exten ded), and th e little Store slowly starves for business. And de liver us from evil The com mon denominator ' in all this is increas ing pressure against, bikers riding on pri vat e land . It is not confined to th e are~s spotlighted here. An ywhere in Southern California that o pen land exists , th ere are bik e tracks. When an average of one household in seven h arb ors a m otor cycle , n o n eighborhood is im m une to some form of tr espass riding as you ngste rs (a nd many of th eir eld ers. as well ) follow pa ths of least resistance search ing for a co nvenient place to enjoy th eir din bikes. Mo tor c ycli st s c a n n o t ye t b e concentrated . ghetto-ized and th en moved awa y fr om lik e oth er unpopular minority groups . We'r e -too diffuse . t oo ' mu ch a part of mainstream America - so ta r. Yet just such hatreds are ha rbored toward us . It comes out loud and clear during p ublic hearings on the loca tion of sta te riding parks : " Bikers sho uld ha ve a place to ride. but in someone else's backyard . not m ine ." A connection will be drawn be tween rid ing pressure on private la nds and the availability (or non -availability) of ' public riding areas , a nd it is a m ixed lessing. When th e first large OHV ecreation site opens in Southern alifornia, be prepa red for a sudden ressure for massive and wide-spread lice crackdowns on free -roaming irt rid ers throughout the region. Thi s co u ld qui ckly becom e ntolerable , especia lly if we assume h a t th e bik ers are evenly distributed n neighborhoods throughout th e p rawling megalopol is. One r ec-site a n be expected to sip ho n off 200 to . 00 fa m ily groups on a ny normal eekend . Org an ized co m pe t it io n raws 900 to 3, 000 into the BLM dm inist er ed desert over 100 m iles rom Los An geles, a nd a n ' eq ua l umber to race events at nearby rivar e cycle p arks. As a very rou gh guess, u p to 10.000 eople mi ght be cam ped or riding on LM or U .S. Forest Servi ce lands. V"'ere do es that leav e the rest of t he 3 ,000 -p lus Gr een-St ickle regis tered ike rs in th e fou r -count y region rrounding LOS Angeles? They're just e ones who've. p aid their $15 , m ember. The number co u ld be oub le th at. . This many peo p le will not ju st go wa y. How mu ch po lice po wer (and a t hat cost) will it ta ke to drive th em ra llv off t he land ? It is not the sort of ue 'th at gO ,vernment a ut horities a re ger to face sq ua rely. T herefore , th e e la ted incid ents repo rt ed so ·fa r a re , essence, the lip of th e iceberg. Each m e large n umbers of men and uipment a re com mi tted for a police ac kdo wn , someone has to ha ve made " cost-effect iveness': decisio n . Pu t m pl y, whe reve r mass bu sts h ave ' -cu rred , th e number of ci tize n (voter) m pla ints ha s ju sti fied th e mon ey ent on th e opera tio n . T o be effect ive p reserv ing rid ing opport uni ties, th e ers mu st either reduce th e number com p la int s or inc rease th e cost of ak ing m ass a rrests . • TO READERS: Desp it e p, ·arrl1l ces. th e Ilews .i s NOT all 'I'/,en ing in So uthe rn Califo rnia . It st see ms that way, because SoCal aders constantly ph on e or write us 't h news tips. and it 's convenient for iff edito rs to go out and check things st han d. If a crisis is brewin g ill you r ea . do n 't just sit all it! 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