As someone who was riding trails on bikes before the term mountain bike was coined a few miles away by some rich kids in Marin County and who counts over half a million miles in the saddle, I cannot imagine a stupider change to the wilderness than adding bikes of any sort. I suspect the majority of other cyclists are content with the current rules and do not support this change. Even us folks who enjoy cycling a great deal want some places to remain as wild as possible. We've done wilderness right, let's not screw it up.

Now, if Senator Hatch wants to sponsor a bill to add new lands to a new sort of not-quite-wilderness and experiment with bikes there, I'm all for it. We could convert some USFS and BLM land to this purpose without impinging on our tiny slice of wilderness lands.