CG Rules - New Trends?

Terryallan wrote:

westernrvparkowner wrote:

rk911 wrote:

westernrvparkowner wrote:
It's almost assuredly a liability issue. Every couple of years our insurance provider sends a risk assessment specialist to evaluate our operation from a liability standpoint. I can easily see where riding a bicycle in a park is not the safest thing in the world. Kids are forever darting out in front of 45' motorhomes who's drivers are looking for their site, not kids on bikes. It wouldn't surprise me if one of those risk specialists told us we needed to have bicycle rules and policies.
Then again, maybe the park had someone who crashed their bike and suffered a serious injury to their head. Perhaps they just decided they only wanted to clean up someone's brain matter once in their lifetime. We have had medical emergencies and people suffering injuries on our property and it sticks with you. You don't just laugh it off and move on. If a helmet rule would prevent us having to watch an ambulance transport a child to the hospital, it would be worth any inconvenience it causes those who oppose such rules.

the 'if it saves just one life' argument. it's not a matter of inconvenience...it's a matter of being free to make mistakes and do dangerous things that may result in injury or death. heck, almost all of us think nothing about getting into an auto and driving. should we do everything possible to make autos safer if it would mean saving one more life? of course not. if we did then autos would be built like tanks. life is full of risk beginning with waking up and getting out of bed in the morning. where do the rules...the 'if it saves just one life' arguments end?

I am all for having the freedom to make any choice you want, but when that freedom impacts me the equation changes. Like I said, someone getting injured on a bicycle in my parks effects me and my business. I might get sued. My insurance premiums may increase. If someone get's injured, I have to live with that fact and if I had a simple policy that would have prevented or mitigated those injuries, I will suffer. I watch bike riders in my parks daily and see near misses often. In my opinion, and that is really the only one that matters on my property, my parks are not the proper place to recreationally ride bicycles. Outright banning bikes isn't a practical solution, but I am considering the helmet rule, if only to give myself false a sense of security.

Your RV Parks are NOT bike friendly?????? What kind of place is it? I have never been to a RV Park / Campground that is not bike friendly? Most of the time, no bikes, no kids, no me.

No they are not bicycle friendly. The roads are gravel. We have no bike trails or bike paths, so you share the roads with RVs, cars and trucks. Since RVs are opaque and 12+ feet tall, every corner is a blind corner. It also makes for blind spots when people are entering and leaving their sites. Plus there is nowhere to ride to inside the parks. We aren't spread over hundreds of acres. So all you can do is bike in circles. So no, they are not bicycle friendly parks.