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There has been some overspill from places like pinkbike.
In short the yanks get very vocal on forums and comments sections when people outside of America post videos of people ripping a mountain/hill a new one in wet and muddy conditions or doing a bit of skidding. Because people riding mountainbikes in this fashion and posting it on the internet is viewable by anti-mtb Americans who might use it against the yanks.
They have a strict code of conduct across the pond and belive everyone should abide to that, even when it's pointed out on forums that if people in the UK didn't ride in the wet we wouldn't ride much and some videos are on private land so do one anyway ? and the rest of the world dosen't care about internal yank issues.
It is strange that a country as vast the states has massive control in place for a bit of cycling and poaching trials* is a big problem over there, to the point of DOD/MOD land having access issues enforced by millitary police seizing bicycles etc etc.
*Poaching trials. Tresspass on closed areas with a bicycle.