Last week I was out on a long ride and chose to take in my favourite bits of local trail the pixies have been busy but seem to be bolloxing it (IMO) they’re converting the challenging, interesting trails to monster billiard table smooth berms and pointless kickers…
I know who’s doing it the same lads that turn up on comical DH bikes in beanie hats to ride the 30 second runs and then whinge that it’s not Gnarr enough, fair enough they’re building, but these goons always seemed determined to remove any real challenge from a trail and turn it into a smoothed out roller coaster, my own philosophy is let things bed down and develop their rough patches, technical sections and tricky bits “Naturally”, clear some brambles (or repeatedly crush them under your wheels) and only maintain any feature that really needs it in order to be rideable…
TBH the more they build and more visible it gets to the NIMBY dog walkists in the area the higher the chance it will all get torn down, ultimately ruining the spot for those of us who use it regularly, and do maintain it but seldom add “big” features…
Winter is the time to build, but some people lack the imagination to do so subtly…