For what its worth I've been off roading twice before and its brilliant, i was in Australia and we weren't doing it for fun but to get somewhere really remote.
The problem is we live in a little place thats over populated so were bound to rub each other up the wrong way.
I love going up mountains but find rock climbing abhorrent ditto with surfers on a nice beach, skiers on a snowy hill, cyclists on the pavement. Its an obvious case of each to his own and everything in the right place.
Can we not bring this dull and dead end discussion up again it has little or no place on this website.
Sorry to sound so negative. I am happy in myself honest.
Just as well it's not about boating and river users, Oh, how the users of our waterways love each other. Sail verses Power, Oar verses Outboard, and all the different combination there are. Add River Residents V Day trippers and Toursist, and you have a 'Sea' of indignation or shall I say a river 'Awash' with resentment.
Bad analagy ? possibily, but there is damage, both natral and manmade.