I’ve come really close to a nasty crash with a crosser climbing the legal Roman road in hope as I was descending…very very scary moment.
You were descending slowly, of course. (You might well have been, but if you had to pick your way down, he’d be having to pick his way up.)
We like to hurl our silly little bikes down hills and get out of control, we should be careful moaning about speed.
For all this emotive and partisan sniping, if the landowner says he is or isn’t ok with any particular group, it’s their land. But some user groups might be less “allowed” and more “too hard to police”. Don’t mistake getting away with it as having a right!