What makes them so much better than us? Why don't WE close down 93% of the forest to hikers?! You don't want dirt bikes on your hiking trail? Fuck you! I don't want hikers on my riding trail, either. But that doesn't mean I'm going to close down the entire forest and rake you over the coals.
The simple fact of the matter is, there are more of them than there are of us, and that means that we don't matter. They taught us in school that democracy is a good thing, but all it does is take the top 51% and give them complete power over the lower 49.
Also, look at what this is going to do. It's going to take all the riders and herd them into these small little areas that just don't have the space for all of them. Traffic on the trails is going to go up, and that means that more riders will run into each other, the existing trails will be over-ridden and start to suffer damage that they would not otherwise. More riders are going to try and relieve the "pressure" by creating new trails, but many of these are going to be poorly routed and cause damage to tree roots and shit. Then, in the next little meeting these people have, they'll bring some pictures of the over-capacity riding area all torn to hell, and they'll say "See! See how much damage these wild idiots are causing?! This must be stopped!" Then more areas will get closed down, and so on, and so on.
If the above sounds like I'm angry, it's okay, I'm not angry. I'm fucking pissed!!! What if I wanted to see Surveyor's Ridge, or Owl Point, but don't want to walk five damn miles to get there? Or what about other places that they've already closed off, like Silverstar Mountain? My dad has wonderful stories of the good old days when they would go to these places, and ride up to the most beautiful scenic locations they've ever seen, but that were eventually closed off. Oh, maybe the spot is now a little more quiet, and there are shoe prints in the dirt instead of tire prints, but the view is still the same, you're just not allowed to see it unless you've got a backpack full of granola bars and recycled bottles full of piss-warm water. What are you supposed to do if you like nature but don't like walking? Buy an HDTV and watch the Discovery Channel, I guess. No point even having a bike unless you like racing, you might as well sell that. And why get a Jeep when you could have a Prius, it's not like you can take the Jeep anywhere the Prius can't go, these days.
I need to stop ranting now, my keyboard has taken so many forceful impacts during the typing of this message, it's about broken in half by now.