{"id":10890,"date":"2014-03-07T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=10890"},"modified":"2014-03-07T09:01:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:01:11","slug":"from-the-febmarch-zephyr-moab-is-assimilated-bike-borg-moves-south-is-resistance-futile-in-san-juan-county-by-jim-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/07\/from-the-febmarch-zephyr-moab-is-assimilated-bike-borg-moves-south-is-resistance-futile-in-san-juan-county-by-jim-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Feb\/March Zephyr) MOAB IS ASSIMILATED. BIKE BORG MOVES SOUTH. Is Resistance Futile in San Juan County? \u2026by Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was never really about the bicycle. The contraption was merely a conveyance, a delivery system for a culture and a mind set and an industry that, even twenty years ago, was inevitable. The sport of mountain biking appeared in Moab in the mid-1980s.\u00a0 Within a decade, the amenities\/tourist demographic had established a death grip on my old hometown.\u00a0 We had once been an eclectic mix of miners, ranchers, small-town businesses, government staffers and young hippie\/back-to-the-earth types; now we found ourselves in a state of rapid transformation\u2013of upheaval.<\/p>\n

Suddenly it was as if those of us who had lived there no longer had a say in our own\u00a0 future. Out-of-town investors with the assets and capital to exploit Moab\u2019s new moniker as \u201cMountain Bike Capital of the World\u201d laid claim to its future. Like a Borg\u2026for lack of a better word, a Bike Borg\u2026opposing \u201cthe hive\u201d was not an option.<\/p>\n

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