On VERY good authority that this will be a reality soon? Seems to be on all the other forums.
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New FOD Uplift service
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And on all the other forums there is no real info. Do you have any?
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Dirtmag, pink, southern downhill, retrobike,bikemagig,mbr britain...so far.
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Yeah, but none of them actually know anything of substance. It seems to just be rumour.
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Hasn't FoD always been upliftable via public roads?
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isn't it almost as quick to push up? not a big hill is it?
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Dirt Homepage.
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I guess people will use it if it's cheap, but seriously there's only one small steep climb! Weird.
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There are a few developments scheduled for the next 12-18 months being driven by a local group working with FC including a web site which hopefully will be up and running soon.
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Cool, good luck to the guy, any further developments can only be a good thing.
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will the uplift be able to handle a full wok and niche bike
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Whys that Sofaking? You coming over again soon?
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I bet the truck will have a sign on that says
Max load 6 people and bikes.
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do you downhill types have the inability to walk more than a couple of yards pushing a bike without having to have a little sit down and rest?
Is there anything in the FOD long enough or are you going for the "worlds shortest uplift" record?
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kisses hand and slaps ass looking in Stus direction.
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i hear they might put a unimog on for when certain un-named persons ( cough Don and Stu )are going to be there. should just about handle you pair as long as your cock and ball bags arent full
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Yeh you can uplift it via public roads! Do 4/5 runs an hour that way top to bottom!
There is loads of other runs there away from the deaten track...
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Not all of us who live here regard it as a good thing.
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At last! Some proper news instead of just hearsay. Good stuff.
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Whatever happened to the freeride park that was proposed for one of the old quarries a few years ago? Nothing I guess?
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Whatever happened to the freeride park that was proposed for one of the old quarries a few years ago?
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There were the coal spoil slag heaps at Lightmore Colliery near Cinderford where MTBs and Scramblers used to play. Privately owned land, fenced off and 'No Cycling' signs up.
An area behind the Pedalabikeaway Cycle Centre was marked up as a 'Skills Riding Area' on a speculative consultation/proposal map for Coalfields Regeneration Money a few years ago but that came to nothing.
The current developments are in the area behind Pedalabikeaway and are being driven by a group named Dean Trail Volunteers with the support of the FC. This group has started after the demise of the original FoDCA (Forest of Dean Cycling Association) group of volunteers who founded the FoDCA XC Trail. The FoDCA Trail will be renamed and further developed. The DTV have so far done a lot of work with the FC to bring the DH trails up to date with grading, signage, trail maintenance, etc. and will now be extending and further developing the XC trail. There is a new website but as far as I am aware has not gone public yet. I'm not [yet, must join up!] a member of DTV so it's not for me to steal their thunder. My information mainly comes from being involved with a company that has agreed with FC to supply materials for part of the proposed trail building
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It's good to hear there's plenty going on.
I'm sure I signed a petition circa 2006 which proposed developing an area away from the Pedalabikeaway (Christ that's tricky to type out!) centre. Maybe my memory is blurred and it was in fact the Skills Riding Area.
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