I was wondering if something like a petition would be a way of persuading FC to leave the wall ride at glentress up. Both on the internet and gathering signatures from Buzzard's Nest.

Seems a real shame to tear it down since it's one of the only things I can look cool on up there. That and it's a lot of fun.

Are they thinking of taking it down then?

Yeah, they've blocked it off with a pile of trees and some gates.

You can jump the trees if you carry your speed. 😉

Rad!

Yeah dude!

Anyway, being serious I'm guessing someone panned themselves into the woodwork and they are worried about being sued in the future?

🙁

Seems it's a planning thing- one person on the comittee is unhappy and so it's going.

There are no current plans to tear it down. It got blocked off because (everyone's favourite) health and safety approval concerns. Currently to my knowledge plans are being made for the modifications considered necessary before it can be re-opened.

sad thing.
people dont understand why people enjoy riding the stuff and thye're people that cant ride ride the stuff.
they are the ones who make the rules

On the RSS feed for the trail conditions at Glentress, they recently changed "wallride closed until further notice" to "re-opening date TBC" – not sure if that's significant…..

7 Stanes Trail Conditions…

its been like it for most of the year – I'd heard that somebody had got well hurt on it

There were tyre marks that went off the top of it. Couldn't have been pleasant.

How many full sussers did you over take on it on your SS Goan?

Hope I'm not overstepping by posting it but this is what Andy Wardman at glentress says:

"I believe plans detailing modifications required to the wallride have been made and a planning document is being prepared which will then have to be approved before any work can commence. I don't have any more details unfortunately as i'm not personally involved in this.

So, it will be reopened but before then it needs planning doc approval, then construction of modifications then sign off. Don't have a reopening date yet."

I don't think the rumours of a big crash are true though, way I heard it is that it's basically just an FC red tape/authorising nightmare come real. But there's so many rumours floating about, who knows? But like ChrisL says, doesn't look like there's any actual plan to tear it down, all the planning is around getting the thing open.

Is this a good time to spam the funding application for the Cardrona Pump N Jump track?

http://www.peoplesmillions.org.uk/regions/border/projects/cardrona-pump-n-jump-track

It took them bloody long enough to build it, you would have thought they'd have got all that sorted prior to it opening, instead of going "woops we've built something which might be considered unsafe so we'll close it again until someone gets their finger out to do the paperwork".

That's where it gets complicated and I get a wee bit unsure of the facts, but I think that approval was given, and then subsequently withdrawn. Same sort of thing as has been happening with the new black section. But don't quite me on that 😉 Best bet if you really want to know is just to grab a ranger and ask, though I imagine they're a wee bit fed up about it

Coogan – I dont actually have a singlespeed. 😀