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Anyone been up there today I hear it's being resurfaced.
!!! Which bit?
The top boggy bit?
No the bed rock bit that did not need doing
Sick of hearing about this now 🙁 it's happpening everywhere!
There are a few alternate lines higher up on the bank though which I'm sure won't be sanitised so not all is lost
No drop offs on those though
I'll be heading out that way on Sunday, will report back with pics.
It's been mentioned on the keeper of the peak twitter feed. Some one has ridden it
Got to love the power of the bloody rambler haven't you 😡
🙁 I love that bit of trail. Hope this isn't true.
What? The bit that was interesting for riding a bike and walking on?
I was tired last time and didn't clean all the step ups, sounds like I won't get the chance
Yep. Was there yesterday. Nice bit of mundaneism council vapid thinkers.
All in progress to be nicely levelled.
Whats the argument? It aint a 4x4 spot.
I can't quite grasp how they complain about bikers/motorbikers/4x4s tearing up the trails and destroying them yet resurfacing the lot so they look nothing like an actual trail is ok??
Open season on footpaths then?
Open season on footpaths then?
That or we all show up with a load of shovels and barrows one Saturday morning and put it back how it should be.
So they ban 4x4s and sanitize it?! Makes no sense.
I don't like to sound paranoid but is there some old fart at dcc intent on boring all mountain bikers out of the Peak District entirely?
Ugh. What possible reason was there for this? That piece of trail was one of my favourites in the peak.
Can't one of us get a high ranking job at dcc stop this from the inside?
Glad I got to ride there a couple of weeks ago.
I have been known to walk and run on trails myself sometimes, usually when I forgot my bike 🙂 The thing is, I don't want to walk or run on sanitised trails either. I just don't get who they think 'benefits' from this ridiculous waste of money.
Mintimperial - let me know when and I'll be there with my shovel. 🙂
Any idea what they've surfaced it with? Surely the amount of water that comes down the slabs when it rains is going to wash it away pretty sharpish?
Not my picture I might add, posted on my local riding groups Facebook page:
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Pretty certain it was taken where the bridleway joins the road before heading up the Roych.
You're ****in kidding me!
Christ. Unbelievable. 🙁
Mintimperial - let me know when and I'll be there with my shovel.
I'm definitely not the best person to organise something like that but I'd be well up for getting stuck in and shovelling some of that crap off to make a point if, say, Ride Sheffield or someone happened to name a date. Negotiation and engagement clearly hasn't worked. It would be sort of like the MTB version of the Kinder trespass. Hands off our trails.
Bloody hell. Another one bites the dust. Let's just Tarmac the ****ing lot and have done with it.
Couple of good winter storms will hammer that. Not really value for money!
I'm not the best person to organise something like that but I'd be well up for getting stuck in and shovelling some of that crap off to make a point if, say, Ride Sheffield or someone happened to name a date. Negotiation and engagement clearly hasn't worked. It would be sort of like the MTB version of the Kinder tresspass. Hands off our trails.
Dam right!
I don't like to sound paranoid but is there some old fart at dcc intent on boring all mountain bikers out of the Peak District entirely?
That's exactly what is going on.
Couple of good winter storms will hammer that
+1
half that will be washed away by the new year (probably resulting in washed out erosion 'ravines' that will twist a wheel/ankle)
Couple of good winter storms will hammer that
+1half that will be washed away by the new year (probably resulting in washed out erosion 'ravines' that will twist a wheel/ankle)
It hasn't happened to Chapel Gate, though, has it? Drainage bars have seen to that.
Guerrilla raid with picks and shovels might be the only way.........
Nice work DCC... another section of a true national classic mountain bike route temporarily ruined by inconsiderate regrading. Agree that it will weather out, and maybe quite quickly, but what a waste of public funds. That's another doctor/teacher/policeman that we can't afford for a few years. (If anyone had the brains to reassign budgets in a half sensible fashion)
Do we know who's done it?
OMG so sad, really. loved that trail. glad to have had it on a regular ish route and cleared it up before this **** up 🙁 WHY!?
I think we might well need our own version of the kinder trespass. I'm up for that.
Me too
Do we know who's done it?
Got to be DCC, surely. No one else would bother covering half a mile of rocky byway that was hurting no-one with tonnes of aggregate. At least it's not **** roadplanings this time...
Do we know who's done it?
Given that this is the only thing Google can find about it, it seems no consultation or notification has been given. Unfortunately I am coming to the view that all this 'user group' and 'consultation' stuff is one-way only. We are given crumbs from the table when they want stuff rubber-stamping and no 'scene' being caused, but it's up yours when they just want to railroad something through.
Footpaths and off-piste ahoy.
Blimey. That is spectacularly shoite.
I take it the old trail is under there somewhere?
ruined my weekend that 🙁
Kinda looks like it was done on the sly, I notice peak mtb knew about wlt and cut bridge works, but only tweeted this a couple of hours ago
WTF!?!
It's all b0llocks. The more this goes on the more tempting it is to ride wherever the hell I want. Bring on the trespass.
Only rode that for the first time this year on my holidays. Truely sad. Down here on the south downs, since we became a national park, there is evidence of the same sort of thing happening here and there. I fear its just a brownie point exercise for a council official in claiming that they have made the national park more accessible. Certainly not more fun.
It's all b0llocks. The more this goes on the more tempting it is to ride wherever the hell I want. Bring on the trespass.
Yep, it's time these buggers realized that every action has a reaction. You screw up this bridleway, we'll ride that footpath. Turbulent times ahead. I thought these councils were 'struggling' financially. When they can spunk money away on crap like this, that no true walker would want either, then I'm becoming convinced it is a campaign. All the things that money could have been spent on.
Piss boiling now......
Wow what a sand slope! Anyone got any pics / vids of it in its original glory?
Maybe a freedom of information request regarding the cost of trail repairs. Then pass it on to Derbyshire telegraph (or whatever it might be called) and see if the people of Derbyshire might be a bit pissed off at their money being wasted.
Wow what a sand slope! Anyone got any pics / vids of it in its original glory?
As it happens it's in the video at the start of today's Pootle thread, from about 15s to 1m00: [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/pootle ]http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/pootle[/url].
(I'm the one mincing down the steps at about 21s.)