Personally, I don't believe that people who do not participate in any OHV activities can even see my point of view on this issue. You don't understand how special these trails are to us that keep getting closed down, or the joy we feel when taking our vehicles responsibly down these trails. This particular commercial isn't the first one to piss me off on this subject. There was a Honda one where they came up on a tunnel that the vehicle couldn't pass through because they had a couple bikes on top, so instead of taking the bikes down from the rack to get the vehicle through, they blaze their own trail acround the tunnel through fragile mountain vegetation. The hook like on the commercial was "create your own shortcut" or something to that effect. These commercials give the newbie off-roader the impression that this stuff is okay, and it takes a while before someone observes them doing this and corrects it. A lot of damage can be done in that time. I guess it's an off-road thing, most of you wouldn't understand.
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