wrong. No one has right of way in the countryside except walkers. Go look at the law. even in england trail centres are not closed off to the public.
I covered that earlier, if we break it down to legal arguments, sure all have equal access, but it would be considered rather irresponsible of a walker/dog walker to go down a technical hard-grade cycle path specifically designed for bikes and marked as such.
Wrong. Tril centres are for riding bikes as you think fit, not as some wannabe downhiller thinks fit. If you cannot stop safely in the space you can see you are going too fast - and if you injured someone because you were riding too fast then you would be liable for the injuries caused. Duty of care and reasonable precautions.
I bike fast and don't want to stop for every other person and his dog toddling along, what makes my request more unreasonable than the dog owners? Considering the trail is for BIKES. It's COMMON SENSE not to walk on a bike trail, in the case of a person straying on then it's an ACCIDENT and it's not like people will simply not even try to avoid it. I'm not going too fast, too fast suggests a set of constraints that you're making up. The constraints you are making up are that everyone should be allowed to use any trail despite it being designed specifically for one purpose. That is a stupid constraint and I don't see any justification for it. If we are going to the legal side, I don't go to a mechanical workshop and start swinging a large scarf about near the machine tools because it isnt sensible and falls within the whole duty of care etc.
Really? You should be able to stop within what you can see at all times.
No, it's not a road and you're not Goan, it's a trail centre designed for riding a bike quickly overy tricky stuff. You want to reduce risks, you go on the green routes.
Please don't come to Scotland. Behaving as you seem to want to do is clearly against the provisions of the law. All you will do is put peoples backs up.
Too late, I live here, and as far as I'm concerned while yes I *may* be outside the law I'm not sure the walker is in any better situation when choosing to walk on bike-specific paths, or take responsibility for his dog being in the way on bike-specific paths. They ARE bike specific and marked as such. If they were not then fair enough.
If you want to have trail centres as just another place to poddle along in a dream or walk your dog, then fine, but don't expect me to agree. The law is an ass at times, this is one of those times. A few years ago a woman was killed when she crossed into the path of a land yacht in a race on a public beach. The race was marked and marshalled but the woman strayed in anyway. The beach and sports were shut down for 12 months while an inquiry was held, but then re-opened because it was deemed to be the womans fault for straying into an area marked for use by the yachters, even though the whole beach is public access same as scottish land. English law there but I'd hope the same common sense approach would be applied anywhere.
I find it slightly annoying that *some* dog owners seem to think their mutts have no effect on anyone else and should be allowed anywhere because they like going. They seem to assume they have complete control and their dogs are sensible. Hate to break it to you but you don't and they're rarely sensible when surprised. They don't belong on bike trails. I'd love to see them out in the hills, on a bridleway, in the woods. But don't take them to a bike centre, if you want to do that go elsewhere. Do I go and sunbathe on the Glentress trails? No, because it's not sensible even if I want to and have every right to be there doing that. Same applies to walkign a dog.
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) - but loved it. Not allowed either?
