Letter: A Place for Dirt Bikers

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Re "For Dirt Bikers in the City, There Is No Place to Ride" (news article, Nov. 19): I am a motorcyclist in New York City, and I deeply appreciate that you have written about this issue. Off-road motorcycling is one of the most common ways that riders in the United States get started. For folks who live outside major cities, their first experience with riding is usually in their own backyards, or a farm field.

Because of our geography, New Yorkers are denied this traditional on-ramp to riding. Unless you have enough time and money to make a two-hour-plus trip to Connecticut, or New Jersey's Pine Barrens, there is no legal place to ride on New York City park land!

Riding a motorcycle is a thrilling activity — a family activity — that teaches balance, stamina and agility, as well as stewardship of the environment, civic participation and fair play. Learning to ride a motorcycle on the dirt is safer than learning on the street, too.

In the five boroughs of New York City, there are 12 full golf courses, five horseback riding trails and 17 skateboard parks. Surely we have room enough for one place to legally ride off-highway vehicles.

JESSE ERLBAUM
Forest Hills, Queens, Nov. 20, 2013

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