30 years later, a Bay Area environmental group officially recognizes mountain bikers as legitimate trail users

30 years later, a Bay Area environmental group officially recognizes mountain bikers as legitimate trail users

File photo. Shortly after Scott Bartlebaugh moved from Ohio to California in the mid 1980s, he noticed a flier advertising the Sierra Club tacked to a bulletin board at the local REI. Knowing a bit about the group’s founder, John Muir, Bartlebaugh had a favorable opinion of the Club. But that quickly changed once he started meeting Bay Area riders who had been affected by the group’s fight against public trail access for bicycles. If not for tha…