Its more to do with peoples attitudes in general, rather than a particular riding demographic.
Look at the number of fast food wrappers you see dumped in laybys etc. Thats not teenagers, thats lazy b@stards!
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Downhillers and litter...
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Posted 1 year ago #
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It's an ignorant people thing I'm afraid, although the modern generation seem to be getting worse.
As part of my commute I stop to pick up a few pieces of roadside litter and drop them to the nearest bin on some of the country lanes or in the local nature reserve. I have taken a few days off from commuting last week and it is already filthy again.
On recent holidays to Germany and Austria I found their countryside and towns to be spotless by comparison, so it looks to be a cultural thing too.
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Wish I was young enough to drop litter
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The downhill trails at Kemple End, Longridge. In a couple of places, including a particularly dangerous bit of "boardwalk" .
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The amount of litter that used to [may still do] get dumped at the Buzzard's nest car park & the top of Spooky woods at Glentress was horrendous & many, many times more than you'd see at the bottom car park or the Red Squirrel or elsewhere on the trails
So [as above] I suspect that certain types or riding seems to attract riders that are much more likely to litter than others
Gel wrappers after races all over the place really pees me off too, what's wrong with putting the empty back in your pocket? - I wonder if the dirty bastids are like that at home
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bigyinn - Member
Look at the number of fast food wrappers you see dumped in laybys etc. Thats not teenagers, thats lazy b@stards!
Nah, probably is teenagers out in first car etc. Last summer neighbours son was visited almost nightly by some chavs in corsas etc, and they'd invariably dump litter from the local McD's in the road outside his house.
Problem got solved by putting the litter through the appropriate letterbox, stopped overnight, what a surprise!
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The top of the downhill runs in the forest of dean are always covered in plastic bottles. Can't a crazy landowner with a shotgun hide in the bushes for a couple of hours on a Sunday afternoon and pick a few off?
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