IN reply to your Opinion article, confrontationally titled "Mountain bike misery," I, too, have seen miles and miles of tracks churned up not by mountain bikers but by horse riders, walkers, contractors and scramble bikes. In the case of "who pays?" I have lost count of the number of times that I have had my life put at risk by walkers' uncontrolled dogs and incidentally I, like a lot of cyclists, have third party and legal insurance via the B.C.F., the cycle sports controlling body.

Biased and inaccurate editorial articles do not help a situation where all groups bear some responsibility for environmental and structural damage to our woodlands. – G. Phillips, Joyford Hill, Coleford.