To mr sonor again. Can you tell me just who has gained from the gravel?
Whoever sold it to the council contractors? I’ve no idea what kind of gravel it is or even where the trail is. And honestly I couldn’t give a ****.
Are we to go on a sacred quest to ensure that every track is perfectly smooth so that if some unknown user ventures out into the nasty countryside they won’t be spooked?
So is this track Gravelly or smooth? Or are you somehow referring that the councils in this country have limitless resources to “sanitise” every bridleway. Which they don’t. I’m with TJ on this, there are plenty of trails around that don’t get this treatment and those that do will be weathered soon enough, surely the few trails that are smoothed out are a benefit to other users who like us mountain bikers may want to use them.
It is the countryside after all. Surely those awful mountainbikers are a bigger menace to this sensitive rambler than a bit of dirt. Are you going to give up biking just in case.
This mountainbiker understands that there are other users of the countryside that may require different kinds of trail surface in order to access it. There are plenty of trails of all kinds for all to share.
These are legitimate cycle paths that have been covered in gravel and rendered dangerous to ride.
In that case they must be legitimate for other users as well. Perhaps instead of bleating about the temporary loss of a rough trail surface on an internet forum, you actually find out why it was done.
As for budgets if they have money to waste on these projects they are being given too much, and I would like MY money back.
A waste in your narrow me, me, me opinion. Your not from the south of the country are you?