Boulder City Councilman Macon Cowles touched off a firestorm among the local mountain biking community today after sending a group of cyclists an e-mail in which he dismissed as “a bunch of (expletive)” their complaints over a recent vote to bar riders’ access to a new trail.
The council decided in a split vote Tuesday night not to open up a planned 5-mile pedestrian and equestrian trail on Anemone Hill, the open space property just west of downtown Boulder, to mountain bikes.
The nine elected leaders have faced a barrage of e-mails from angry and disappointed cyclists in the days following that decision, but one council member’s response to a group of cyclists has riled mountain bike advocates.
“I voted for the mountain bike loop on Anemone last night,” Cowles wrote in an e-mail late Wednesday night. “In fact, I made the motion and spoke for it at length. All any of us are hearing today — regardless of which side of that issue we were on — is a bunch of (expletive) from people with a single minded focus on mountain bikes.”
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