AdironRider
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Or it would be a farming community like it was and still is. There are also some large industrial facilities west of town that provide many more jobs than a couple serving positions and bike shops.
If Fruita is your best example (I live out West as well man, spend 3 weeks a year in Moab/Fruita riding) then its definitely not the economic driver everyone claims. Fruita does have a large mtn bike presence, but look at the rest of the place. Its not great.
Most mtn bikers are like me, and I suspect you, where we roll in, give our lodging dollars in the form of a grand ten bucks to the BLM to camp(FEDS, not local b&b's), buy a couple 30 packs and some bike tubes, then roll out.
If Fruita is your best example (I live out West as well man, spend 3 weeks a year in Moab/Fruita riding) then its definitely not the economic driver everyone claims. Fruita does have a large mtn bike presence, but look at the rest of the place. Its not great.
Most mtn bikers are like me, and I suspect you, where we roll in, give our lodging dollars in the form of a grand ten bucks to the BLM to camp(FEDS, not local b&b's), buy a couple 30 packs and some bike tubes, then roll out.