Anybody know what’s happened to Special K at Rivington? Was over there today and the jumps have been smashed down and some of the berms seem to have been damaged too.

Anyone know if United Utilities are having a clampdown?

Such a shame, it had obviously taken a lot of man hours.

UU destroyed it a while ago, i think they’d been getting complaints off the MRAs. Hopefully something can be agreed with UU and get it rebuilt in the future.

Must be quite recent. Was all intact a month or so ago.

What’s an MRA? Forgive my ignorance.

Can I hazard a guess at ‘Miserable Rancorous Arseholes’?

Nightmare when stuff gets flattened due to narrow-mindedness.

yeah it was posted on the FB page that UU wiped it out around a month or so ago now.

Bell ends. (MRA’s)

Im not familiar with ‘Special K’ – i may know it as something else! Where is (or was as the case may be) that?

MRA = Militant Rambler Arseholes, the same ones that dismantle dry stone walls to build speed bumps across trails to protect them from us, not realising the irony.

WW, if you headed along the Belmont rd bridleway (to the right of the start of the ICR) away from the pigeon tower, part way down is the woods to the left, it was in there.

Im not familiar with ‘Special K’

Not a clubber then 😉

It is more likely to have been flattened by UU because some prat has tried to claim compensation after coming off his bike on it or due to the fear that this will happen eventually, rather than complaints by ramblers.

Not a clubber then

err no Nick, no need for artificial stimulants in my life! Apart from alcohol obviously, which goes without saying!

WW, if you headed along the Belmont rd bridleway (to the right of the start of the ICR) away from the pigeon tower, part way down is the woods to the left, it was in there.

So heading towards Belmont from the Pigeon Tower? I have ridden that road many times but never diverted off down the woods! Guess i have missed it now then! Cheers.

due to the fear that this will happen

That was my first thought when I saw the big gap jump was gone too.

And I was just limbering up to hit it as well.

😉

I bet they just look on Strava for off piste trails and it was way to downhilly for my nerve or skills

I got shown that Special K run a few months ago & the top part is well concealed.I must admit if I hadn’t been shown where the top of it is I’d have rode straight past.

Must have ridden past it hundreds of times before someone told me it was there. There was a short vid on youtube of a few lads building there.