Here’s a huge jeer to the criminal mountain bikers who insist on riding on the trail from the Auburn staging area to No-Hands Bridge.

The trail is clearly marked “No Bikes” on multiple signs despite the attempts of bike vandals to deface these signs.

Most recently, on Wednesday evening a black-and-yellow-Spandex-clad criminal came blasting down the trail at 20 mph towards our equines. Thank God we heard him in time to yell to stop before our animals dove off a cliff in fright.

This numbskull admitted he’d seen the signs but didn’t care. He said the animals would be just as scared with a snake or a dog. Uh, no! And last I heard snakes and dogs can’t read signs.

He then used the old standby for illegal trail riding – “I pay taxes too.” In that case why doesn’t he ride on the freeway or the airport runway? Probably because then he would risk injury or death, not me or my animal, and he wouldn’t want that.

Also, since when does “paying taxes” excuse breaking the law? These sections of trail are marked off-limits to bikes for a reason.

They are narrow, precipitous and incompatible for use by both horses and bikes – and equestrians built the trail and were there first.

Someone is going to get seriously hurt or killed if these criminals aren’t stopped. They have lots of legal places to ride.

So where are the park rangers tasked with enforcing the law? If they don’t step in, there’s going to be serious trouble.

R. DAVIS, Auburn